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Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] Tattorack@lemmy.world -4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's only relevant to... I think just one country where self check outs exist. Namely America.

[โ€“] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 3 hours ago

The thing about Indigenous tax breaks? Also relevant in Canada, and I wouldn't be surprised to discover there was something similar in Australia or New Zealand. It's only one possible issue of several in that category, anyway. For instance, there's a drugstore chain in my neck of the woods that provides discounts for seniors on one day of the week . . . but their self-checkouts can't handle it and anyone who's due a discount has to go to a cashier. Stuff like that.