Walmart is showing self-checkout machines the door at additional supercenters as the retail giant’s automation experiment continues to unravel. The world’s biggest retailer removed the machines from its South Philadelphia store in March, and brought back traditional cashier lanes.
It's only the latest location to ax self-checkout. A Walmart store in Missouri removed all self-checkout machines after the kiosks led to 509 police calls in just five months.
Let me say the obvious. People are scumbags. Give them a chance to steal a can of tomato paste and they will.
That's what self-checkout is - an opportunity to pinch a bag of potato chips - at least to enough people that it's become a huge 'shrinkage' (their word for shoplifting/theft) issue for the company, with no way for them to fully understand how much it's costing them, but they know it's a big number. Given a chance to be an asshole, you'd be amazed how many people will.
Juss' sayin'...
Looking at YOU, Lowe's...
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