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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don’t get their point that shoppers “need to be socialized into using self-checkout”. Who ever needed to be persuaded? It’s just that they try hard to make it painful. Self checkout was always an over-complicated conglomeration of parts with poor usability, then poorly thought out additions to try to control theft and no counter space . It just never works well. Maybe we should “socialize” retailers into getting their shit together she it can work more smoothly

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Consumers want this technology to work, and welcomed it with open arms.

That’s an actual sentence from that actual article. The fuck? I read it, like, four times. Is that even - what??