https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/major-retailers-are-backtracking-self-checkout-rcna160234
Every time I hear about self checkout, I am reminded of the guy that bought a PS5 for its weight in fruit.
Yeah I love shopping at WalMart
They allow me to apply my own discount to the merchandise
I doubt they're even losing that much, it's probably paranoia and projection.
Most loss is internal.
Source: reading up on it, and having worked in retail. The stuff I saw...
most theft is internal but it's the company stealing from the employees and not the other way round.
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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
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.
I stopped buying organic fruits and vegetables. I still bring them home and eat them, I’m just not paying organic prices
oh no! you're probably accidentally entering the wrong plu code by accident! these stores should hire someone properly trained to stand next to each self-checkout machine to make sure customers are using them correctly.
No no no you better not take them out now bitch I put shoplifting into my weekly grocery budgeting.
smh people don't want to work for free anymore
thesis: cashiers are expensive
antithesis: self-checkout machines are annoying to use and constantly result in errors, making customers resentful of the entire process and having labor costs offloaded onto them. spiteful customers are prone to shoplifting.
synthesis: fuck! security guards are also expensive!
Support your local store workers by stealing as much as you can using self-checkout machines.
Sorry, I've gotten so used to shoplifting that I'm not going back to paying
We salute our brave shoplifters for combating the destruction of service workers' livelihoods
It's not that there is self-checkout, it's that DG tends to keep staff very low in their stores. Sometimes you can walk in and not see a single employee, even when you go to checkout. They want their cashiers to do everything. It's a great target for shoplifting but not because of self-checkout.
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This also shows how fake prices are. They can handle their costs going up (paying more workers) without increasing prices because they know that people can't afford groceries right now.
Every single fucking time i go into harris teeter i hear the self checkout attendant on the intercom trying to scare people into not shoplifting. "Security scan and record all sections" i know that's fucking fake dummy I used to work retail too. It's still annoying and idk if they're doing it for me or
There’s 0 point in self chdckout when it freezes because it thinks you’re stealing if you’re efficient and swipe too fast, or if you stand still for more than 2 seconds to check your current item list, or if you don’t place your item on the bagging surface within 1.625 seconds, and have to wait 10 minutes for an employee to be available to unlock your machine
All those empty checkout lanes are only used during holidays. The equivalent of fucking brick and mortar stores that only sell decorations for a specific holiday then shut down all year.
wow, sorry I was so crappy at being my own cashier, but it's not like you guys were paying me or providing training.
when I scan my whole meal and it comes up as a single $1.35 side of cole slaw, that's not my fault or my problem.
Yeah it's really weird how my 2lbs of pecans scanned as cheap cornmeal and the rotisserie chicken from the salad bar scanned as a red onion. Super strange
The two examples in the headline are dollar stores which infamously have a huge margin on their inventory. You'd think these would be the retailers who are affected the least by "shrink" but I'm no economist so what do I know.
