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Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, can you blame them?

Electronics, luxury items, other “nice to haves” maybe. But who wants to be the reason someone goes hungry?

Not to mention, they are getting paid dogshit wages.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And they actually can get reprimanded or fired for doing so. Fuck it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Can confirm. Used to work for a big retailer and one day caught someone stealing (not food) and confronted them. I was a pretty solid employee who had been there for years but my manager had to fight hard to stop me from being fired; it was a really close call.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    When I was a youth, we used to go to Safeway and get donuts or "Mojo's" (wedge fries) at the bakery, then munch them while walking through the store so that they were gone by the time we got to the till to buy our cans of pop.

    One of those unforgettable moments from those years was when we were finally called out by a security guy, something very casual like "you boys are gonna pay for those donuts up front, right?" and Chris who was "that guy" in our crew, bounced his donut off the mall cop's head and ran like his life depended on it

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