A lot of the grocery stores near me have a limit of 15 or 20 items for self-checkout. Safeway says "about 15 items" which is strangely vague. Any more and you have to go through a regular checkout.

I admire your faith in our legal system but despair at you lack of imagination.

They'll prosecute a bag of money for potentially being involved in a crime.

Depends how white you are

Don't need to get to a judge. They can just tresspass you and then you have to drive 30 miles to another supermarket cause you cant ever set foot in that one again.

Thats enough to fuck shit up for a lot of people.

Do you live in the US? I do and I wouldn't be surprised at all if that happens here

I have no clue. I guess you can look at the profit margin for a supermarket (Walmart is around 2%, I just checked), then figure out the average full food shop spend, and finally see what the average hourly wage is for a worker and how long it would take to ring up a full shop.

Although, this also highlights why they can’t give OP 25% off as their margin isn’t anywhere near this figure. I guess we should also factor in handouts that companies like Walmart get from the government to subsidise their staff etc.

I haven't seen a Walmart with one of the weighing platforms in years, actually

They all use larger flat plastic coffee-table bits attacked to the machine now, there's actually about as much room on it as is in a cart, and it's really nice

You beep, beep, beep, and never have to worry about UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING ARE or anything like that

Not really you leave it in the cart and bag it as you scan it

I'm just basing it off of being married to a Walmart manager for 10 years but hey, maybe outsiders' anecdotal feelings on the topic are more accurate than observed first hand experience.

Walmart is ALWAYS hiring cashiers.