this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
971 points (98.5% liked)
Technology
88659 readers
4156 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Totally depends on the store you're shopping at, foremost. Then secondarily what products you're buying.
Where I live, self checkout is usually faster but I'll still go through a regular line periodically. Frankly though I'm just picking up groceries most of the time at this point. It's easy and if the people grabbing you things have a touch of empathy you get fine looking produce and meats too.
Anyways, you're right it is definitely heavily dependent on where you live. Hell some places, especially in upper middle class areas, have a lot of the detection shit turned off (like you can actively put wrong weight stuff in or bypass the scans entirely - there's a chance you may still get flagged but it'll let you finish the order up before someone comes to put a code in to override it).
I guess if you're going to commit petty theft I'd suggest you buy a decent outfit from a second hand store and go to a nicer grocery store self checkout.