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

submitted 10 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] mydude@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't like to interact with people, but I also don't like to work for free for the owner of the chain, so I take one for the comrades and interact with the cashier.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If you work for free, you're bound to make mistakes. Sometimes a pound of fish might get rung up as a pound of oranges.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I bought a potato yesterday that should have cost 79p but it only rang me up for 30p as the scale was broken. I'm a proper little criminal me.

Nothing tastes better than ever so slightly erroneously discounted potatoes.

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 9 points 10 months ago

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

a pound of fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_miGclPFGs

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I don't see a problem with that

Sent from a country where oranges are like 1 dollar per kilo.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Grocery stores used to have you bring in a list of what you needed and the grocer picked it all out for you from behind the counter and packed it up. If you walk through a store and put your own groceries in a cart, you're already doing free work for the owner of the store.

I wouldn't change that, and I wouldn't change self checkout. I prefer both. It's not work if I'd rather do it.

(The first paragraph is a true story, but also a joke. Doing "work" is all relative.)

[–] mydude@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

You do you, man.