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Can you elaborate? This was before my time, so I'm curious what that early experience was like.
It was a nonstop barrage of "Unexpected item in the bagging area!" on repeat until you just give up and walk out the door leaving everything behind for the store to clear away for the next customer.
Unfortunately the more regional stores and co-ops still have the old units. Which like, good for them for maintaining their stuff, but also it's kinda a pain lol
The store can configure them to have higher tolerances. One store near me turned the scale off entirely. They have way more throughput on the machines, and don't need as many human cashiers now. The scales didn't enough theft in the first place.