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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

You do you, man.