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Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 40 points 5 days ago* (6 children)

I think this weird anti-self-checkout crowd is just young people who don’t remember the times before self-checkouts. Even if every checkout was manned it was still completely normal to wait upwards of ten minutes, even when it wasn’t that busy. I remember my Mum excitedly running to a checkout because there was only one person queueing there. Nowadays I totally expect there to be no queue at all and I feel hard done by if I have to queue for more than one minute.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I’m over 50 but the queue has to be huge for me to go to self-checkout.

    I do not enjoy waiting for someone to come and check if im stealing. I do not enjoy waiting for a go-ahead for goods that are age restricted. I do not enjoy doing unpaid work (wheres my rebate??)

    Also - I think cashiers deserve a job.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    I worked in grocery stores as a teen and I just want that to remain available.

    I also do not like the self checkout machine. They have an unacceptable number of steps to pay. They’re horribly programmed. I don’t like the small baggage areas.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    I think this weird anti-self-checkout crowd is just young people who don’t remember the times before self-checkouts.

    What crowd? As far as I can see, the article is talking about retailers who want to do this, not customers.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    The Aldi by me went self checkout. They lost enough business because of it they brought back cashiers. I definitely stopped going because of how clunky it was. The couple times I went I used the single cashier that had a line instead of self checkout which did not.

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