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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I don't like to interact with people, but I also don't like to work for free for the owner of the chain, so I take one for the comrades and interact with the cashier.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    If you work for free, you're bound to make mistakes. Sometimes a pound of fish might get rung up as a pound of oranges.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Grocery stores used to have you bring in a list of what you needed and the grocer picked it all out for you from behind the counter and packed it up. If you walk through a store and put your own groceries in a cart, you're already doing free work for the owner of the store.

    I wouldn't change that, and I wouldn't change self checkout. I prefer both. It's not work if I'd rather do it.

    (The first paragraph is a true story, but also a joke. Doing "work" is all relative.)

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