The 'savings' could also take an unreasonably long time to realize. The capital outlay is not small (the scanning machines, their maintenance, still need humans

The 'savings' could also take an unreasonably long time to realize. The capital outlay is not small (the scanning machines, their maintenance, still need humans to categorize the cheeses) and artisanal cheese probably isn't all that high-volume a business nor is it particularly bound by precision and tight tolerances - it can matter a lot that some doodad that goes into a machine is defect free, less so with a hunk of cheese.