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Rather, you don't get a discount for using the self-checkout. The price you are paying has the cost of a human cashier built into it. If you use self-checkout,
by pjlegato 10y ago
Rather, you don't get a discount for using the self-checkout. The price you are paying has the cost of a human cashier built into it. If you use self-checkout, you're providing that service yourself for free, but the company still collects the premium they charge for human service.
- markdown 10y agoIn Australia you pay even more (via tax dollars) for using self-checkout: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-06/nsw-police-to-crackdown-on-shoplifting-at-self-service-checkouts/7908154 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-06/nsw-police-to-crackdow...
- ojm 10y agoMaybe the wage savings offset the shoplifting costs.
- wutbrodo 10y agoOh gotcha. I misunderstood his implication. > The price you are paying has the cost of a human cashier built into it. If you use self-checkout, you're providing that service yourself for free While true, this is kind of a bizarre way to look at it; you should only be using the service if you prefer it to human checkout, in which case the fact that their costs are lower is irrelevant. It basically just means that both you and the company are both benefiting. One may as well say "I always make sure to use the bathroom when I go to the grocery store. If I don't, the company still collects the premium they charge for providing a bathroom". And yet if you'd rather not go to the bathroom, the premium they charge has nothing to do with your decision making process.
- bacheson1293 10y agothe machines don't cost anything?
- pjlegato 10y agoThey do, but way less than a human employee (or else they wouldn't use the machines.)