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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€“] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Interesting to hear all these opinions. These have been around for so many years - there has been plenty of data. Surprising this is just now being turned back. For small orders I've always loved the self checkout and found it way more efficient. Part of that is likely because I want out of the store much more than any clerk wants me out of the store.

[โ€“] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

Same.

That's a legitimate use case. I'd like them more if they capped the number of items one could scan in one transaction, maybe at ten. I've always hated out someone with three carts of stuff could tie up fast checkout line or a self checkout.