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The 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] 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

They seem fast, fine, and issue-free in Australia and no one with a bunch of items uses them.

If anything, they're costing businesses because people streamline shopping for necessities instead of taking time to load up a cart. They've been out for years now and I certainly spend less for it; both money and time shopping.

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

Yeah but on the flip side, supermarkets in Australia use them in place of staffed checkouts to save money, at the expense of speed and convenience. I like them if they're there as a time-saving option, but not as a replacement for staffed checkouts.

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