https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/major-retailers-are-backtracking-self-checkout-rcna160234

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Most loss is internal.

      Source: reading up on it, and having worked in retail. The stuff I saw...

      • flan [they/them]
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        3 days ago

        most theft is internal but it's the company stealing from the employees and not the other way round.

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        • mar_k [he/him]
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          3 days ago

          when i first worked as a grocery store cashier my manager consistently robbed me of the daily two 15 min paid breaks i was supposed to get

          she also made me the only worker at the front in the morning, so i was running back and forth between my checkout lane and helping demeaning old people at self-checkout. soul crushing anxiety type shit

          • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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            3 days ago

            I remember my brief time at Target, my manager hated me but he couldn't get rid of me because of how short staffed we were. One time I remember I was walking towards customer service from a checkout lane, and he started yelling at me to run, and when I kept walking at a totally normal pace he got literally red-in-the-face angry and wrote me up for it.

            Then they wanted to do the meeting where I signed the writeup after my shift was over. LMAO shoulda said something fifteen minutes ago - I already punched out and nothing short of a gun to my head will stop me from going to my car right now. Didn't get fired like I really thought I was going to but I did stop showing up to that job unannounced when I got something better a couple months later.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        3 days ago

        Love throwing away entire pallets of milk and bread and other edible foods because no one is buying them and no one else can have it. These store and company owners deserve to be killed.