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.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Unexpected item in bagging area?

    Fuck you buggy robot, keep up. I’m moving on to the next one.

    Didn’t get scanned? The store is getting the quality of checkout that it paid for.

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        1 year ago

        I refuse to do the unpaid labor of fixing their shitty robot.

        If bad business decisions cause accidental shrinkage, oh well.

          • Mafflez@reddthat.com
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            1 year ago

            Why are u defending a corporation that’s making you do a job for free that people used to get paid to do.

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              Because we live in a society where stealing is wrong. Sorry you don’t like self checkouts, but that doesn’t give you the right to steal. I don’t like speed limits, but I still follow them.

              Here’s an idea; if you don’t like self checkouts, don’t use them.

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                Lol no we don’t, we abandoned our dedication to rights 20+ years ago largely thanks to conservatives like yourself.

                Now we live in a dystopian hellhole where the working class are herded like cattle and you complain when they demonstrate a modicum of their humanity by rebelling against the regime that cages them.

                Fucking 🤡👞

      • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        It’s simply the customer getting paid for the labor of being a cashier. If someone does labor for a company, the company pays them.

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        1 year ago

        Morally maybe, but legally no. Theft requires criminal intent. If the person is honestly attempting to pay for the goods and errors in the payment method cause an over or underpayment, that’s not theft.

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          It’s theft if you know that the item didn’t scan and you just bag it anyway. You can ask for help. But no keep stealing and trying to justify it.

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            It’s not theft if there’s no criminal intent. If the lack of scanning was caused by equipment malfunction then there’s no reason to think that they intended to steal.