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Have supermarkets reached peak self-scan?
- Log_out_ 2y agoI demand a rebate due to supplied work.
- Bluestein 2y ago(A perfectly valid demand ... ... incidentally - see, ie., banking - along with all other industries "off-loading" (in essence) costs by making their own customers service themselves ...)
- meowster 2y agoDo you also demand discounts for having a store loyalty card (which necessitates higher prices for everyone else)?
- emchammer 2y agoBetween these two things, if going to a big-box grocery store isn't the most depressing thing. Notwithstanding the high prices and maybe one staffed checkout lane being open. It used to be that it practically knocked out Boris Yeltsin visiting an American grocery store on the variety and amount of stocked food.
- madjam002 2y agoIn the U.K. I find the Aldi scanners to be great, they’re fast and accurate, probably in part to the enlarged barcodes. Tesco is the worst, multiple second delay between scanning each item while it recognises the weight, constant blocks, good riddance.
- sjducb 2y agoThe main reason for the growth of self scan was loss control (theft reduction). Most theft from stores is by staff not customers. Removing the human from the till reduced the theft. This worked for several years, until customers worked out how easy it was to steal from self service checkouts. Now self checkouts don’t have the loss reduction benefit they are being phased out.
- SapporoChris 2y agoI have no issue with self scan. However, I also like the stores that have a clerk scan the items and then the customer goes to an automated teller machine that takes credit card and cash for payment. I think the latter method helps solve both issues.
- Bluestein 2y agoI think several modes should be available, including one where you pick, leave items to your name (against existing credit perhaps) and walk away, items shipped to you later ... ... and everything in between.-
- 1123581321 2y agoThat doesn’t track. Any store with barcode scanning can account for drawer shortages. Employees have known they will be disciplined and fired for being short on cash for decades, even if an accident. Second, an employee’s overhead cost is bigger than the small amounts they might try to steal. Saving hundreds a day is the goal of implementing these machines.
- sjducb 2y agoEver considered Do you want a receipt? No Cancel Sale Remove cash from drawer later. There are so many ways a person can steal from the till.
- 1123581321 2y agoCancellation rates are monitored and lately, looked at with cameras. But that is indeed a potential workaround.
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