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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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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The last few times I've walked into a Walmart, the place has been a disaster.

Shelves empty and in disarray, no evidence that they ever did carry the product I was after, the building in an increasing state of disrepair.

I'm done with this company.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Walmart here is pretty good, but this is a small city/large town where most of the local businesses have gone, so we have to rely on the Walmart a lot of the time. They keep it clean and well-stocked. They even usually have a couple of checkout lanes open.

But Walmarts are generally awful from what I understand.

Yeah hopefully ours goes out of business soon.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have they choked out all other options in the vicinity?

Not really; we're pretty flush for retail.