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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech (www.businessinsider.com)
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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech::When Walmart's anti-theft self-checkout tech alerts an employee of a missed scan, it can cause some uncomfortable situations.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Normalize leaving your groceries in the cart and leaving the store, and finding another store that doesnt make you bend over backwards to pay for your shit.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

and finding another store that doesnt make you bend over backwards to pay for your shit.

Not so easy in a small town where the big box stores have killed local business.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago

The only real outcome from that is to make underpaid employees have to put all your shit back.