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So long as after the person does self checkout you have someone manually confirm they scanned all the items.
I applaud the massive theft from Walmart people pissed off with having to pay and scan their own shit have been pulling off.
That doesn’t happen here. They do spot checks sometimes on big scan and go shops where they pick 5 or so random items to scan to confirm you’ve done it right but you only get selected like 10% of the time.
Manual confirmation of ALL checkouts is like manual audit of ALL tax filings. Neither happen, but the occasional audit of 1 out of 200 keeps people honest.
Wouldn't that be trivial to avoid with an RFID? Check the RFID when the product comes in, keep it in a database until someone pays for it. If it leaves before it's paid for, alert security.
I work retail. On the clothing, the vast majority of the tags already are RFID, but for a different kind of automation - it's by SKU or a similar number, and it's already used for inventory counts and locating specific items for online orders. The other stuff isn't because a lot more of that is manufactured by sometime other than the store and would require Coca Cola and so many others to cooperate and someone has to eat the cost of doing it and a twelve pack of coke doesn't come with the issue of having to find a specific style and size of black thong located somewhere in a dozen boxes of underwear that includes five other extremely similar styles of black thong (true story btw, anyone know of less shit jobs hiring in the Twin Cities?).
Also, you would be astonished at the number of detached tags we find, if someone is shoplifting it's incredibly common for people to rip the tags off. Probably because at least one retailer already does something like that.