Yeah, "scanning errors", like when it's charging me full price instead of the discount that it was supposed to be on, which would not be as obvious if a cashier scanned it?
Zero training and zero pay. Hmm I wonder if anything could possibly go wrong…
And for some reason they were expected to tip the machine.
Hey, it’s not my fault that a pack of T-bone steaks weighs the same as a pack of hot-dog wieners.
They've been experimenting with self-checkouts for decades. When I was a kid, I remember being in a store with my grandma, waiting in line to pay, and an employee kept trying to entice those in the line to come over and try the self-checkouts.
She asked my grandma a few times before my grandma, a proud union supporter, snapped "I want a person to ring me up. I'm trying to save you're JOB, young lady!"
And the young woman stopped asking my grandma.
trying to save you are job
your grandma sounds like an awesome person
Watch out guys they might cut your shifts if this keeps up.
In the local shop they often catch you for not scanning the paper bag.
But if you scan tomatoes as peppers or vice versa nobody bats an eye.
I still don't get why you wouldn't get a discount for checking yourself out. No wonder all those high-falutin' CEO's think consumers are a bunch of dumb schmucks. The real heroes are the clerks who "miss" scanning something from time to time.
I get a five finger discount now and then. Small things usually. I will NOT pay the bag fee if I self checkout, you took away a job for a computer, you can absolutely eat the 25-50 cents worth of bags.
Same reason they don’t pay you for using an atm instead of an expensive teller at an expensive branch
It’s easier To add a fee To a new service even if it’s to save them money, Than it is to start charging for an existing service that used to be central to their business
I am not paid, i dont do the work.
Also, if the cashier makes a mistake, it is their peoblem. If you make it, they call you thief. Fuck them, i aint no cashier.
Totally Company's fault. 😂
i dont even steal from these, i just prefer less interaction and faster checkout 🤷
If a cashier scans something incorrectly, its their mistake. If I scan something incorrectly, its theft. I'd rather not take on that liability.
Depends on jurisdiction. In Germany, in order to qualify as theft, there needs to be intent. So just an error is not enough.
How to prove "intentional vs. not-intentional"? Easy: the whiter and richer you are, the more likely it is for you to convince everybody that it was a honest mistake ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is so it. If I make a mistake, I'd be sorry, I'd pay for it and that's it.
A friend of mine who works at the headquarters of a large local retailer keeps getting stopped by shop detectives of the same shop chain, even though he didn't do anything suspicious. Well, anything apart from being the son of parents from Afghanistan.
In the US almost all things that are tried in a criminal court require the concept of "mens rea" which means "guilty mind." That requires the proof of intent. Not everything does and I'm not sure about retail theft.
I get that we hate corporations. But since when is reconsidering something complaining? Presumably if they reconsider there might be more paid cashiers, good right?
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