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Self-checkout theft causing problems for retailers β€” and shoppers who despise receipt checks (www.cbc.ca)
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I started using grocery self-checkouts during COVID, but I've kept using them because there's rarely a line (and I'm a misanthrope). I'd probably go back to using regular human checkouts if I had to dig through all my crap to prove what I bought.

Having said that, I've noticed myself making mistakes. I've accidentally failed to scan an item, and I've accidentally entered incorrect codes for produce. When I notice, I fix them, but I've probably missed a few.

I guess the easiest answer is for grocery chains to reinvest some of those windfall profits and hire more cashiers.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I get the whole living wage thing, but a cashier's position was never a living wage, in the past it was a wage used to supplement a family's income, or to pay for post secondary tuition. What changed? My local Wallyworld supercentre was the first in the region to go self serve, the manager said he couldn't find staff, but in all honesty whether it was a living wage or not, I think he just didn't want the staff.

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The minimum wage was enacted to provide all citizens with a basic quality of life, including food and housing. Full stop. Everything after your incorrect statement is irrelevant as it is founded on an untrue principle.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

My bad. I never knew a 16 year old working at a fast food outlet was supposed to support a family. I formally apologize as a white colonial male with priviledge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You say that as if the majority of minimum-wage earners aren't, and haven't always been, adults. Go read a book.

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree 2 points 2 years ago

They don't read. It hurts their brain to try

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree 3 points 2 years ago

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Also

sTuDeNts sHoUld mAkE sLavE wAgEs cAUse tHeyRe yOunG.

Did you know McDonald's workers in Denmark make over 20 an hour AND the food is cheaper than in the states?

[–] Moreless 2 points 2 years ago

This is the same logic my old man has. I like to ask him if his breakfast is being made by a 16 year old on a school day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How far in the past? I'm sure I remember unionized cashiers at, I think, Safeway getting paid comparable to me as a unionized welder in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I could be completely wrong about that, because I think it was the whole store on strike, not just the cashiers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A couple of my aunts were cashiers around the same timeframe, one of em a single mom. I don't know how much they were paid, but they had decent apartments in Toronto around Roncesvalles with enough square footage for a kid and his cousins to get "up to speed" (I mostly recall the injuries)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That lines up with my memories in Saskatoon. Injuries aside :) By then I had my own son to manage!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

A friend of mine, her father was a bagging clerk at a grocery store for literally his entire life. He was able to support two kids and a spouse on that salary, and retired maybe ten years ago.