Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech::When Walmart’s anti-theft self-checkout tech alerts an employee of a missed scan, it can cause some uncomfortable situations.

  • Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    So what you just said is you could but don’t want to. I feel that deflates the point.

    I got new for ya. There were rarely more than than 2 checkstands open before self checkouts were commonplace, too. If you remember differently, you must have been in a different part of the country than me. Either way, you are choosing the self checkout because it’s more convenient, not because of a lack of choice.

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      9 months ago

      We all make decisions like that daily. Just because I’m choosing one slightly more convenient shitty thing over another doesn’t mean the one I’m choosing is good. It just has a utility. It also only has that utility because the other option is being actively neglected.

      It also wasn’t too long ago that I worked retail, at Walmart no less. Even after self checkout became popular, we’d have 4-10 cashiers depending on the traffic at any given time. They’d even call employees who worked completely different sections, like myself, to run registers if they got backed up.