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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
submitted 11 months ago by ooli to c/technology
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[–] sighofannoyance 24 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I love self-checkout, because I hate waiting in line.

[–] NickwithaC 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You would hate the self checkouts around here then.

Policy seems to be that if there isn't a queue then they should shut off half of them to save power. So now there is a queue for the self checkouts.

[–] twack 9 points 11 months ago

Also they just don't staff the regular check out lines, so your choice is to leave and go to another store.

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