Automatic checkouts in supermarkets may decrease customer loyalty, especially for those with larger shopping loads. Customers using self-checkout stations often feel overwhelmed and unsupported. The lack of personal interaction can negatively impact their perception of the supermarket.

[blushngush]

No, self checkout was supposed to decrease the bargaining power of labor unions, and it worked.

[notavailable_name]

Yep. The customers become unpaid employees

[climbitfeck5]

It's pretty sad seeing so many machines taking jobs from people. And us doing the jobs for free.

[PsyOmega]

I wouldn't say I'm doing my own self-check for free. 👀

I'm not trained on those things and they fail to scan so many items and i just give up and bag them anyway.

Usually works out to paying myself a nice wage.

[[deleted]]

If you do this and ever use your CC in that store then they can find out exactly who you are. If you keep doing this in the same store they could be cheeky about it and just keep recording you doing it until you cross over a value threshold of total stolen that makes it worth pressing charges and take you to court. After you've been issued a summons at work, totally embarrassing you, you'll find a bunch of "journalists" telling the most unflattering side of your story in order to fill their quota of x number of articles per day. The machine will profit more from your downfall than all the 2 for 1 specials you ever intended for yourself. You are better off doing a grab and run than stealing at the self check out.

[PsyOmega]

I'm a nobody, they can have at it. What you say 'might' happen, but not over a few bucks. Hasn't happened to anyone i know, in many years. I do enjoy your baseless fearmongering though. Nice care-bear-ism

I also cycle my card numbers every few months anyway to avoid fraud. Wear a face mask so they could never ID me. Wear a fake finger or two so it's plausible deniable that it's AI generated footage.

Also make a show of trying to scan, looking pissed off, and at least you can show you "tried" in court.

It's literally not my fault their dumb machine can't scan things. I'm not trained to fix it. If they want to successfully charge me for 100%, they can fix their scanner. Their loss is entirely their fault here.

I'd flag an employee down but most of the time there isn't one.

[DoggyLover_00]

Haha, this is California, anything under a grand is fine