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Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)
submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That and age-gated items like alcohol and [some] medicines. If the one human managing the self-checkout horde is busy, you're just left waiting.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Somehow Costco has managed this well (as has Sam's Club).

Costco always has sufficient ID checkers in the self-checkout, and Sam's checks your ID as you leave the store if you do the Scan-as-You-Go feature.

Quick and easy for both.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

They really need to just pay for extra cashiers. And* can’t they also have “express lanes?”

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