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Self-checkout theft causing problems for retailers — and shoppers who despise receipt checks (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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I started using grocery self-checkouts during COVID, but I've kept using them because there's rarely a line (and I'm a misanthrope). I'd probably go back to using regular human checkouts if I had to dig through all my crap to prove what I bought.

Having said that, I've noticed myself making mistakes. I've accidentally failed to scan an item, and I've accidentally entered incorrect codes for produce. When I notice, I fix them, but I've probably missed a few.

I guess the easiest answer is for grocery chains to reinvest some of those windfall profits and hire more cashiers.

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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (7 children)

It's not the job of corporations to treat people well, they're an entity designed to maximize profit within the framework they operate in.

A democratic government is designed to represent the will of the citizens. If we aren't happy with the way corporations treat us, then we should vote in a government that will regulate corporations to force them to treat us well.

The goal should be jobs that are boring to humans being automated completely AND not having theft because people don't need to do it in order to have a good life.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    It get harder and harder for government to regulate corporations as they get bigger and bigger and are multinationals. That's what happens with tax heavens.

    I understand corporations motives, but the parent commenter explains well that it doesn't work well if they are too greedy about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    When do you do when your choice in voting is carefully handpicked insiders from a group that has insulated themselves from outside forces over the past 50 odd years and the only choices with a real chance of winning are not going to work in their constituents best interest?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    When do you do when your choice in voting is ...

    The answer's the same

    1. Pick the least bad
    2. Repeat

    And also

    A. Fight for better voting so that minority candidates with good ideas get the nod they need.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Picking the last bad is why we are slipping AS A WHOLE in the wrong direction.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    1. No we're not. Go look at some numbers.

    2. If your campaigning some 'bootstraps' idiocy, it's easier than changing us into America and their Medical Bankruptcy if you just move there for a few years. Put the fear of the aristocracy in you.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Well let's stick with the second-worst as long as it keeps the absolute worst out and their bootstraps bullshit and the dissolution of services that keep us from being Americans. They have even more work to do down south than we do, and I'd like those fools from Edmonton NOT to make us imitate that idiocy wholesale.

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