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Walmart self-checkout mistake destroys Olympic athlete's career (boingboing.net)

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[-] clifmo@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

Seems rather important to note the potential criminal liability one assumes when using self-checkout. You can be charged with crimes for a failure by the self-checkout system.

[-] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yup, my friend is a lawyer and he refuses to use self checkout for any reason: he doesn’t want to assume the liability.

this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026

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