▲ 547 ▼ Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 312 comments fedilink hide all child comments Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech::When Walmart's anti-theft self-checkout tech alerts an employee of a missed scan, it can cause some uncomfortable situations.
[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 14 points 2 years ago (4 children) normal checkout, which had the problem that my steaks had already been scanned Lol, that meat had a serial number. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, if I get if from the butcher inside the supermarket, it has a "local" EAN13 barcode that "costs" the total of all parts I got. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* Sounds like a badly configured system IMO. It shouldn't take things out of stock or prevent rescanning until the sale was actually made (the customer paid). permalink fedilink source parent [–] pewnit@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Meat heist is unironically a real thing permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mwguy@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago We hang cattle rustlers round here..... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, if I get if from the butcher inside the supermarket, it has a "local" EAN13 barcode that "costs" the total of all parts I got. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* Sounds like a badly configured system IMO. It shouldn't take things out of stock or prevent rescanning until the sale was actually made (the customer paid). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* Sounds like a badly configured system IMO. It shouldn't take things out of stock or prevent rescanning until the sale was actually made (the customer paid). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pewnit@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Meat heist is unironically a real thing permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mwguy@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago We hang cattle rustlers round here..... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago We hang cattle rustlers round here..... permalink fedilink source parent