Self Checkout (2 Viewers)

[bigdaddysaints]

One of my local Circle Ks installed a couple of new self-checkout machines, and they are pretty awesome. You walk up to them with your handful of items, and set the items on the table. A camera identifies everything you have and adds it all up. Swipe your card, and head out. No scanning.

theirs is the best so far.
I'm not sure if the camera identifies everything, or if all their stuff has RFID tags.
we use RFID where I work and it works great.

 

[Optimus Prime]

or $1000 worth
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A Michigan woman has been arrested after she allegedly stole several items after not scanning them at a Walmart self-checkout station.

TeddyJo Marie Fliam, 34, is now looking at prison time after she failed to scan all of the items at self-checkout that she picked up in the store. The incident took place at a Walmart located in Alpine County, where loss prevention saw Fliam noticed she wasn’t scanning each item. When security confronted her, she grew upset, denied that she wasn’t scanning every item, and ended up leaving.

After leaving, the security team checked surveillance footage which showed the woman was able to make it out of the store with more than $1,000 worth of items by not scanning all of them. And she hadn’t been scanning all of the items during her visits at the location since April of this year, NDTV reports.

She was arrested on September 29 and is now facing first-degree retail fraud charges..........

Michigan Woman Arrested for Not Scanning Items at Walmart Self-Checkout, Stole $1,000 Worth Of Items

 

[bigdaddysaints]

asking for a friend..lol
but seriously out of curiosity, how do shoplifting laws work in a situation where someone isn't scanning items (not switching barcodes), say items like food or household items and an employee catches them? if I haven't paid or left the store, is that considered shoplifting?
what about if I stick something in my pocket and approached in store, is that shoplifting if I'm still in store?

 

[superchuck500]

asking for a friend..lol
but seriously out of curiosity, how do shoplifting laws work in a situation where someone isn't scanning items (not switching barcodes), say items like food or household items and an employee catches them? if I haven't paid or left the store, is that considered shoplifting?
what about if I stick something in my pocket and approached in store, is that shoplifting if I'm still in store?

Depends on your state law but I think most of them have an intent element to it. If there’s probable cause that you intended to shoplift, that’s enough to be charged.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Amen
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When I was 15, I worked at an Albertsons supermarket. I boxed, I bagged, I even cashiered. I quit after six months. Why? Hated it!


So why in God’s name do I have to work at a grocery store now, at 64?


Why do I have to ring up my own groceries?

Why do I have to bag my own groceries?

Why do I have to get yelled at by the robo-nagger? “Please put the item in the bagging area.”

Hey, I’m trying, but the “bagging area” isn’t big enough to fit a roll of Life Savers.

Now, Albertsons and Kroger are proposing a $24 billion merger. Antitrust or no antitrust, I’m all in favor — on the condition that Krogertsons doesn’t make me punch the clock every time I need a half-gallon of 2 percent.

Dear grocery store owners: Have you seen me in the break room?

No? There’s a reason: I don’t work for you!

I don’t want to work for you — I was bad at it as a middle-schooler and I’m worse now!


And it’s not just grocery stores.

Apparently, I work at United Airlines, too, where I now book my own flight, tag my own bags and drop them on the belt.

I also have part-time jobs at Target, CVS, Uniqlo and even McDonald’s.

I’m checking myself out more often now than a seventh-grade girl on TikTok.


It’s not like I want to go to self-checkout. It’s that these giant chains are firing cashiers to save money. The last time I went to my local Safeway, there were nine self-checkout stands open but only two live cashiers.

The lines for them went all the way back to the Milk-Bones. I had no choice but to do it myself. I have Christmas plans…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/rick-reilly-self-checkout-rebellion/

 

[Tapxe]

Remember when you didn't have to pump you own gas at the station?

Me neither, but legend has it...

 

[Sailorsaint]

Remember when you didn't have to pump you own gas at the station?

Me neither, but legend has it...

But I did watch Back to the Future.

 

[Tapxe]

But I did watch Back to the Future.

Sorry wrong answer.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Remember when you didn't have to pump you own gas at the station?

Me neither, but legend has it...

Go to New Jersey

 

[Semper]

Remember when you didn't have to pump you own gas at the station?

Me neither, but legend has it...

You can’t pump your own gas in NJ.

 

[0rion]

Remember when you didn't have to pump you own gas at the station?

Me neither, but legend has it...

I actually remember this. Gas was also like $.75/gallon then too

 

[Tapxe]

I actually remember this. Gas was also like $.75/gallon then too

I remember it being much less, than .75$, but very few full-service stations. Well, dad was a cheapskate, so he'd have gone the lesser cost option.

 

[Crzycjunx76]

Go to New Jersey

Oregon too. Its annoying.

 

[black_floyd]

I use the fork out of em. I have years of cashier experience so it's a rarity for me to ever not get out more quickly using self checkout. I do however agree with OP that it sucks badly when sheet doesn't work correctly since customers will never be given any leeway to do their own voids or other authoritative measures (out of the store's fear of ppl using it for theft) so then you're stuck waiting on the self checkout emperor to come and fix something you could've fixed yourself in 10 seconds if given the necessary authority.

 

[Tapxe]

Go to New Jersey

I'll pass. Never saw an episode, but I cannot forgive the place for that Jersey Shore fiasco.