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https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-costco-kroger-facing-self-checkout-reckoning-2023-10

Some are finding they still need employees to combat theft, assist with purchases, review IDs, and check receipts.

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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

PLEASE WAIT WHILE I LOCK THE SCREEN AND SCANNER WHILE SOMEONE COMES OVER AND MAKES SURE YOU AREN'T TRYING TO STEAL

Funny enough, this generates so many false positives that none of the workers I've seen even bother to check anymore. It's just "Oh, the screen locked up again, I'd better get that"

[-] fox@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

For minimum wage I'm barely being paid enough to unlock the robot. I'm definitely not being paid to care about theft, and if they wanted me to care about lost revenue they could give me shares in the company so I have an incentive to care.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

One time I saw a customer stealing at the self checkout but I wasn’t in a mood to approach them, but I had to configure the machine next to them. Security guy came up to me a few hours later and congratulated me and said he saw me “combatting theft on the camera earlier.”

I never confronted the customer and they left with everything without paying, so I don’t even know what crack that security guy was smoking.

[-] The_Walkening@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

IIRC when I worked retail/grocery you're always told to never engage, but make your presence known (how that will stop someone stealing, I dunno.)

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

maybe theyll get spookified

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