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"Why do you think every store is pushing self-checkout so hard? It's not about efficiency, it's about control." "Phase one is always about getting us comfortable. Phase two? Stores with no employees, no cashiers—just shelves, cameras, and drones watching your every move." "They'll control what you can buy using... show more
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Silly take. It’s because employees are expensive and slow. Minimum wage rise and mandatory benefits. And it does not work in Lib cities because of high thefts. So much for “pushing” it if it won’t work in high population area.

Self checkouts annoy me. If I’m doing their work, I should get a discount 🤷♀️

Corporate stores are a key with this. This would never work in a country full of privately owned businesses.

Exactly. We need to push back by going to the bank, withdraw cash and pay in cash everyhing, if enough people do it, something will give.

Lower the damn prices if you're not hiring anyone to work there!!!

From the comments on here, I can see people are oblivious to what they're planning for us.

I shop at a Kroger, and the self checkout alert system flags me 80% of the time. I have to wait for the attendant to come over and review the surveillance footage before I can pay, because something or someone thinks I'm shoplifting. I don't steal, but I'm subjected to scrutiny.

They are pushing it because they are dumb as fuck I went into a little corner store called One stop and the person wanted me to serve myself instead of her serving me wtf your ruining your own jobs ffs.

Its not about control, its about shifting the operational costs of doing business to the customers. In the long run, bagging your own groceries and pumping your own gas is more profitable, competitive and makes the shareholders happy.
