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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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[–] solarspark@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'll do a big shop, look shocked at the line up and just walk out. Have fun dealing with my cart.

There's no way I'll get an app. I get they'll have methods to entice people but I held off getting Facebook when it was the big thing, I'll be ready for when corpos want to fuck around.

In fact I welcome it to see how I do.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trouble is, all you're doing by dumping a full trolley is inconveniencing someone who's paid minimum wage.

[–] solarspark@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I agree that's not good. What else would I do if I had todownload an app to checkout or have to navigate their self checking that's just a shit show all the time. If the store is being cheap, not properly hiring people and paying a good wage, that is not my responsibility and I'm not going to have to get some app so I can do my purchase and I'm absolutely not going to take my time to put the items back, and nor would the employees want that either.

I have no responsibility to do free labor for profit hungry criminals.

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I have done that a few times.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty good at not buying from Safeway when they have an item I want on app-coupon sale.

But since tje new Trump order I've gone completely anti-consumerist, only getting stuff I immediately need.