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Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 month ago by BillionaireStew@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It wasn't about speed, it was about reducing spending on wages

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago (1 child)

That’s right. 4-6 registers with one employee.

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 point 1 month ago

In my experience, stores with that kind of ratio are miserable to shop at. At high demand hour the most you can get away it is 2 register with 1 employee, maybe 3 if the self-checkouts are very good (good UI, not error-prone).

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