This is why I don't shop in stores anymore , I have to do all the work and be treated like a crim. I boycott any place with self checkout and prefer the aldi even though it's slow with very few registers open.

and AI mechanical turk based cameras all over the store and gates that judge whether it should open for you after buying things.

I highly doubt they're actually using AI, given every other claim I've seen that starts out like this ending up being poorly paid people in a low wage country.

One problem your forget to foresee: people will leave shit about, leave products outside of freezers, and misplace things. It needs employees

if you need someone there is a phone to a callcenter.

Yeah. Like if you want to leave without buying anything.

The cart alsof weighs my products so I only have to scan one barcode. It multiplies by itself.

The thing is, where I live the system works well. It doesn't make UX choices that make it hard to use, assuming that people are stealing all the time. It's fast and easy, although so are the human manned checkouts, which also exist and are fine.

US here. Scan-as-you-go plus self checkout is amazing. Lay out your reusable bags in the cart when you arrive then pick-scan-bag through the store. Self checkout becomes a 2 minute process at most, no matter how many items you have and everything's already bagged for the trip home.

Our local store (Stop&Shop) is rather trashy compared to competitors but we go there because of the fast scan and self-checkout process.