Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending

• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Very much not. I’ve shopped biweekly since around the beginning of the pandemic, and the trouble I have is when the overhead camera thinks I’m stealing, like, a fast food soft drink I have in my cart or something. I haven’t heard “unexpected item in the bagging area” or anything like it for years, literally. And I only have to wait for a person in the case of the aforementioned camera debacles, or if I’m buying alcohol.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hear it happen to a stranger almost every time at Lucky or Safeway.

    Happens to me if I try to scan even half as fast as they do at the real checkout scanners.

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      See my comment here for my recent revelation. In short: the problem isn’t with self checkouts, it’s that the stores you’re going to aren’t maintaining them well.

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        To shoppers, that is a distinction without difference.

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