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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...

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Wide Awake Media1 year ago

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HHope1 year ago

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.

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Jan Rudorfer1 year ago

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

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Michael Smart1 year ago

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

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Maria Victoria1 year ago

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.

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In The Looking Glass1 year ago

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

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Common Sense Dog1 year ago

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

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𝕋𝕦𝕣𝕓𝕠𝕤 🅾🅵🅵1 year ago

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.

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ForbiddenHerbs1 year ago

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.

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Portoplatter636081 year ago

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.

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