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Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)
submitted 1 year ago by return2ozma to c/technology
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[–] captainjaneway 7 points 1 year ago

You gotta time it with a heavy item. Some machines have tolerances for weight (or so it seems). So I always pick my heaviest item and put it down at the same time I put the bag down. Basically bagging it and placing it down at the same time. That "tricks" the machine into not realizing the extra weight is from a bag since the bag should be within the weight tolerance of the heavy item.

I've never had it fail.