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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that’s probably true. Remember how all the execs decided to replace cashiers with robots, then the stores started losing money because a. it made stealing a lot easier and b. people would avoid stores that only had self-checkout robots and never had anyone to help you because a robot doesn’t know where the flour is. Now the self checkouts are being decommissioned and we’re going back to regular human cashiers. It turns out cashiers do more than just scan barcodes. But, upper management didn’t get to where they are by being smart.

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

They also underestimated how lazy people are. Personally I will never use a self checkout if a have a bunch of produce (which is most trips to the grocery store). I can't be bothered to slowly look up each item in their database.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. When I was a cashier in a grocery store, I had every code memorized except some of the less popular bulk nuts. A human cashier is way faster than a self checkout.

[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Wait, you guys don't have scanners to scan your items?

Never had to look anything up in a database while shopping.

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Your produce has barcodes printed on it?

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