The U-turns are occurring at retailers that once touted the upsides of fully self-service stores

Every time I hear about self checkout, I am reminded of the guy that bought a PS5 for its weight in fruit.

Yeah I love shopping at WalMart
They allow me to apply my own discount to the merchandise

I doubt they're even losing that much, it's probably paranoia and projection.

Most loss is internal.
Source: reading up on it, and having worked in retail. The stuff I saw...
- most theft is internal but it's the company stealing from the employees and not the other way round.
- Love throwing away entire pallets of milk and bread and other edible foods because no one is buying them and no one else can have it. These store and company owners deserve to be killed.
- Full support for workers paying themselves what they deserve

I stopped buying organic fruits and vegetables. I still bring them home and eat them, I’m just not paying organic prices

oh no! you're probably accidentally entering the wrong plu code by accident! these stores should hire someone properly trained to stand next to each self-checkout machine to make sure customers are using them correctly.

No no no you better not take them out now bitch I put shoplifting into my weekly grocery budgeting.

smh people don't want to work for free anymore

thesis: cashiers are expensive

antithesis: self-checkout machines are annoying to use and constantly result in errors, making customers resentful of the entire process and having labor costs offloaded onto them. spiteful customers are prone to shoplifting.

synthesis: fuck! security guards are also expensive!

Support your local store workers by stealing as much as you can using self-checkout machines.

We salute our brave shoplifters for combating the destruction of service workers' livelihoods

Sorry, I've gotten so used to shoplifting that I'm not going back to paying

It's not that there is self-checkout, it's that DG tends to keep staff very low in their stores. Sometimes you can walk in and not see a single employee, even when you go to checkout. They want their cashiers to do everything. It's a great target for shoplifting but not because of self-checkout.

they should change their name to Dollar Optional
- Dollar Corporal

This also shows how fake prices are. They can handle their costs going up (paying more workers) without increasing prices because they know that people can't afford groceries right now.

There’s 0 point in self chdckout when it freezes because it thinks you’re stealing if you’re efficient and swipe too fast, or if you stand still for more than 2 seconds to check your current item list, or if you don’t place your item on the bagging surface within 1.625 seconds, and have to wait 10 minutes for an employee to be available to unlock your machine

All those empty checkout lanes are only used during holidays. The equivalent of fucking brick and mortar stores that only sell decorations for a specific holiday then shut down all year.

Spirit Halloween?

Steal our labor we steal your shit, seems fair to me 🤷

Every single fucking time i go into harris teeter i hear the self checkout attendant on the intercom trying to scare people into not shoplifting. "Security scan and record all sections" i know that's fucking fake dummy I used to work retail too. It's still annoying and idk if they're doing it for me or

The two examples in the headline are dollar stores which infamously have a huge margin on their inventory. You'd think these would be the retailers who are affected the least by "shrink" but I'm no economist so what do I know.

Being too autistic to not pay for stuff

wow, sorry I was so crappy at being my own cashier, but it's not like you guys were paying me or providing training.

when I scan my whole meal and it comes up as a single $1.35 side of cole slaw, that's not my fault or my problem.

Yeah it's really weird how my 2lbs of pecans scanned as cheap cornmeal and the rotisserie chicken from the salad bar scanned as a red onion. Super strange

I remember people saying this would be permanent because of the push for a $15 minimum wage.

Boy oh boy I sure hope they start hiring more checkout workers instead of laying them off every month so that they have to pay less people

The existence of more cashiers will not reduce theft when it's not their job.

Do these machines have other hidden costs that are less visible? Who makes them, how do they get into supermarkets? Are they renting them? Paying a monopoly for maintenance like the mcdonalds ice cream machines that are always out of order?

Cashiers absolutely reduce theft. Its so easy to even do simple things like buying all organic produce and then punching it in as conventional. Its so easy tell the machine yoy bought 2 when you bought 3.
Shit, the first time i ised a self checkout line I got frustrated with the machine and ended up stealing like 40$ worth of shit.

Self check out work well if you are just buying 5 or less items and had no vegetables or something like that.

I use my ebike to move around and always cross a supermarket with self check out on my way back home from work and I stop there once or twice a week to buy some things missing. I'm in out in 10 minutes, and using the self check out I don't need to wait in a queue for a cashier.