Democrats ruin fucking everything. now because we live in a low trust society I gotta talk to some fag instead of just scanning my own shit and leaving. It is both the fault of the dems who are doing the thefts and the dems in public office who made it so shoplifting is legal in most dem cities
https://www.kget.com/national-news/self-checkouts-are-disappearing-from-retailers-heres-why/ Self-checkouts are disappearing from retailers. Here’s why
Pete Wilgoren
8 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — For a while, they looked to be the future of shopping.
Grocery stores, home improvement stores and retail chains were all making room for those blinking green lanes of sweeping, modern shopping convenience (or so they said) — the self-checkouts where you become cashier and bagger.
If you’ve ever visited Target on a Sunday evening and have seen the snaking lane of self-checkout customers weaving into the store, you know.
But you may be seeing fewer of them in major retailers nowadays, and you can blame retail crime across the country.
On social media, one user recently posted a picture of the Walmart in West Hills, California with the self-checkout lanes roped off. The post said all Walmarts have removed self-checkouts due to theft.
Nexstar’s KTLA reached out to Walmart to find out if the self-checkout lanes were indeed a thing of the past. Are they removing all of them in California? Which stores have had them removed (or simply closed, temporarily or otherwise)
A Walmart spokesperson said they needed to research the issue.
They later replied, saying, “We’re always looking at ways to innovate and improve our stores. We have nothing to announce related to self-checkout removals at this time.”
When pressed for specifics, the retailer offered none.
“I’ll refer you to the previous statement. That’s the only comment we have.”
It’s the not-so-secret secret: retail chains are doing away with these lanes, and many do not want to talk about it.
Anonymous
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In December,
SFGATE.com reported that Target quietly removed self-checkouts in San Francisco, calling it “a trend in ‘defensive retailing’ that may soon spread across the city.”
Other reports say Target, when it does allow self-checkout, is only doing so for customers with ten items or less. No more big carts full of items.
Other chains, including Costco, have been dealing with the issue, saying that “shrink,” or the measure by which chains track retail theft, has increased in part due to the rollout of self-checkout.
Target and Costco did not respond to questions regarding the issue.
Now, California crime trends may be proving too costly.
LAPD data from 2023 shows retail theft up 16% in the city of Los Angeles. Many of those crimes involve “flash mob-style” attacks on retailers.
Reported shoplifting incidents rose in the Bay Area, and shoplifting is trending up in Los Angeles and other urban areas.
But it’s not just California, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation, retailers reported a $112 billion in losses in 2022 to theft.
For those who are sticking with self-checkout, The Associated Press says Kroger is one of the companies now using artificial intelligence which can tell when a shopper fails to scan an item. If the customer fails to resolve the issue, they get the dreaded red light at the self-checkout and a call for customer service help.
Love them or hate them. That may be where self-checkout evolves next.
Categories: National News
Democrat voter
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They had insurance, something something eat the rich.
Anonymous
>>1270686 third worlder butthurt that they can't put hard working employees out of work now with automation.
Anonymous
>>1270689 cashier isn't a living wage. its the exact kind of bullshit job you fags want to have robots do
Anonymous
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>>1270686 I'M OUTRAGED!!1 THEY OUGHT TO APOLOGIZE!!11
Anonymous
>>1270690 All of the illegals democrats let in won't have jobs if they can't work a cash register somewhere
Not that democrats care, they like their constituency to he homeless, but personally id prefer them to have a job at a register than being homeless
Anonymous
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Realistically if stores wanted their customers to act as employees and check themselves out it should have come with some kind of discount on the items. (5-10%?)
Anonymous
>>1270690 Well that's the fault of republicans and the fact they won't tax the rich and put price caps on goods to stop gouging.
Anonymous
>>1270696 How does the government forcefully extracting wealth from the economy give cashiers a living wage?
Explain in great detail.
Anonymous
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>>1270696 how did that work out for you in venezuela?
Democratic store product shrinker;>)
>>1270686 >It is both the fault of the dems who are doing the thefts I just bought some $6 l/b cherries for $1.29 l/b.
I got 3 l/bs for $3.95.
Asparagus I confused for bananas,
I can't help it that I'm old and these new fangled things confuse me.
Rich entitled Dem
>>1270715 Rich people are more likely to steal from self-checkout. Why?
The machines have created a new kind of "partial shrink" where someone pays for most of their stuff, but skips a few items.
One study revealed that about 6.7% of orders had some items that went unscanned (including accidentally) — far higher than the typical 0.3% shrink rate for a fully-staffed checkout.
Of people who admitted to stealing, the biggest group was among the 18% of people with household incomes of more than $100,000.
maybe for wealthier people, like, it's just another hassle — or it's kind of beneath them. So that's one possibility: that it's kind of like a silent protest. Like, why do I have to do this?
Another thought is that scanning a $10 item for a wealthy person, that's like a penny to them. So there's already a different kind of attitude about money.
There might be even a subconscious kind of thought of: Hey, if I got caught, if I ever did get in trouble, I have the resources — I could hire an attorney, or I could call somebody. I know how to make something happen.
https://www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-shoplift-self-checkout-why-explained-2023-12 Anonymous
>>1270718 Who wouldn't want to walk out when there's zero cash registers open and a line for the self check out?
That's how so many stores are doing it right now. Their one human body guarding the self check out lanes and absolutely nobody else doing fucking anything all day.
Who wants to drive to a store, look around endless aisles of shit they move all the time to find something (obviously you can't ask the retards that work there where anything is, they never know) and then get to the check out with it only to realize you can't even fucking get out of the store without waiting in line at the self check out bullshit for 20-30 minutes?
Why does Walmart have 50 check out lanes and all of them are fucking permanently closed?
Anonymous
>>1270699 >How does helping the common man against the oligarchs help? You tell me bootlicker.
Anonymous
>>1270762 >helping the common man Imagine being this naive in 2024.
Anonymous
>>1270786 You have been misled.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>1270786 >says the bootlicker Nah
Anonymous
>>1270696 How long will you continue spewing globohomo approved juvenile lies?
Anonymous
>>1270797 >if you don't give more money and power to the government, you're a bootlicker How can one be this retarded? What is your secret? Did your parents have any children that lived?
Anonymous
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>>1270821 How long are you going to pretend like nationalism is still viable in the 21st century?
Rich Entitled Dem
>>1270761 >Why does Walmart have 50 check out lanes and all of them are fucking permanently closed? The savings in not paying cashiers is greater than the thieving at the self checkout.
It's all bean-counting
Anonymous
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>>1270761 they aren't permanently closed. you are just going off peak hours
also to save money
Anonymous
>>1270762 but dems are the oligarchs. they will immediately take that tax money and use it to buy sanders his 8th mansion
Anonymous
>>1270904 Sanders earned his money selling books and being a Senator. Don't be jealous.
Anonymous
>>1270718 this is really funny to me because conservatards like this
>>1270686 say its primarily blacks and poor people who are stealing from these places. Nice job vilifying the common man while fat cats continue to abuse you day in and day out. I bet you tithe to a church too
Anonymous
>>1270906 (((selling books))) literally means accepting bribes. no one has ever read a politician's book. there are multiple confirmed stories of books basically only being sold to the campaign who then gives them away at events (and thereby converting campaign funds to personal funds) or by a big donor or company buying up tons of copies.
whenever you hear >muh books, that politician is in someone's pocket
Anonymous
>>1270927 chud headcanon is so weird
Anonymous
>>1270927 it's nice to know you can be silly every once in a while, makes your job a little less boring doesn't it
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>1270942 >Lawmakers are allowed to dip into their campaign coffers to boost book sales, so long as those sales do not increase their personal royalties i mean it's a good reason not to donate to politicians but it's not evidence of bribery
Anonymous
>>1270942 What a weird example when most of the people doing it are republicans
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>>1270946 republicans are corrupt, what do you know...
Anonymous
>>1270946 because reporters won't report things that dems are doing. washington post literally downplayed the fact that biden admitted to lying on a 4473 as though its no big deal.
>>1270945 >yeah give me this advance/pay on the book and we will use campaign funds to buy x number of books totally not kickbacks. Sanders' accepts bribes. there is no other reason why he keeps running for president and no other reason why he would have his 6 mansions considering he has never had a real job
Anonymous
>>1270950 >it only counts when your politicians do it Anonymous
>>1270952 I only care when dems do it, because dems are the ones trying to take my guns
Anonymous
>>1270953 at least you admit you're illogical
Anonymous
>>1270954 hating the party that is actively trying to take my rights from me is logical
Anonymous
>>1270956 Pretty sure the founding fathers never wrote the constitution with assault rifles in mind. Things are allowed to change, anon - or do you think we should still live in caves because that's what we originally did?
Anonymous
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>>1270960 >Pretty sure the founding fathers never wrote the constitution with assault rifles in mind. I understand you're a bored loser. Just remember, it is OK to KYS.
Anonymous
>>1270960 This is true!
Friendly reminder the 1st amendment protects pamphlets printed on a Gutenberg printing press only, not any from of high-power electronic communication.
The founding fathers never could have imagined we may have communicated as powerful as social media, the right to free speech needs to have common sense restrictions on it, such as what one can say on social media.
Modern computers can message others at rates of thousands or even millions per second, and quite simply, the framers of the constitution never predicted such dangerously efficient ways of communicating
Anonymous
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>>1270919 can't both types of thieves exist at the same time you fucking moron?
Anonymous
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>>1270837 >The savings in not paying cashiers is greater than the thieving at the self checkout. If that was true they wouldn't be uninstalling the self check out lanes now.
Anonymous
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>>1270919 >while fat cats continue to abuse you This may be the case for you, but not everyone lives in a tent addicted to fentanyl struggling to pay back a 15k student loan after 20 years.
I have a decent job and make quite a livable income because I studied something useful and am not an idiot
Have you considered simply not being an idiot and/or drug addict?
Anonymous
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>>1270960 >Pretty sure the founding fathers never wrote the constitution with assault rifles in mind. a. no American has ever been murdered with a legally owned assault rifle in the history of the US
b. this was already settled in heller and Caetano. all guns are covered under the 2nd amendment
c. the battle of concord was literally fought because the Americans owned cannons
d. when the constitution was written people owned private war ships
e. the founders knew of repeating arms. lewis and clark had a girardoni air rifle on their 1803 trip
f. Americans were expected to have either muskets which were standard military guns at the time or rifles which were above the standard military gun
>Things are allowed to change, I'm not surrendering my rights, faggot
>or do you think we should still live in caves because that's what we originally did? complete fucking non sequitur
Anonymous
>>1270963 >>1270960 the first amendment also does not extend to drag queens. how would the founders have known about faggots dressing up in women's clothes?
Anonymous
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>>1270693 guess trump should have built the wall and had mexico pay for it. sad. many such cases.
Anonymous
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>>1270970 that's an anglo tradition. actually it goes back even further than that. you've never heard of theater
Anonymous
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>>1270960 God I can smell the ancestral oven ash on this glownegro over here. For fuck sakes at least learn from your ancestors mistakes of promoting socialism instead of monarchistic capitalism with some hardline rules since socialistic laws are what lead to former southern slave negroes and the holobunga to being brutalized and put in the ovens respectively.
Anonymous
uhm the founding tribesmen said..............
Anonymous
>>1270974 We used to have a culture that promoted American exceptionalism.
Now we're like a fag country for idiots, weirdoes, and mexicans.
Our super power status won't continue for long.
Anonymous
>>1270974 because you are a faggot and don't understand what is in the constitution
>hey england is gay as shit, lets leave >hey we are worried we will have another tyrant like england, lets write a document outlining the specific powers of the federal government so they can't be faggots >hey, we are worried they will still be faggots, lets put a list of 10 amendments that limits the scope of the federal government even further so they don't act like faggots and then you fags say we need to change it and get rid of the constitution because it limits the government too much and protects freedom too much
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>1270977 Pretty sure you've had governmental and corporate tyrants for the past 70 years but I guess bitching about Jamal and Steph - on 4chan of all places (she/they) is more important. Keep up the good fight though I'm sure you're making a difference kek
Anonymous
>>1270979 complete fucking non sequitur to what I wrote
Anonymous
>>1270980 >NON SEQUITOR >NON SEQUITOR Is this the new "Not an argument" tactic?
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>>1270981 >we need to change the constitution, its bad because its old reee >no, the constitution is good, the reason people want to change it is they are evil or don't understand it, this is how it works... >rich cooperation's are tyrants glowie post reee it is obvious you don't have an argument so you instead just try to change the topic when you get btfo'd
Anonymous
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>>1270981 He was telling you that your argument had nothing to do with what he said.
But you're kinda right, you didn't have an argument either
Anonymous
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>>1270761 >Why does Walmart have 50 check out lanes and all of them are fucking permanently closed? The same with Meijers here in Michigan, where there are 20+ human operated checkout lanes but only 2 are ever open...
Anonymous
>>1270761 >Why does Walmart have 50 check out lanes and all of them are fucking permanently closed? They work as spares if one has a technical issue, as a way to rotate staffers on without disruption, and to account for higher traffic periods.
The fact is that as long as the open lines aren't always getting longer, it's not cost efficient to have those lanes open. Any staffer manning them could be doing literally anything else. They only need enough lines open to manage the traffic they have. Walmart doesn't want empty open checkout lanes. An ideal scenario for them is a line in every open lane
Anonymous
>>1271002 >An ideal scenario for them is a line in every open lane As if keeping everyone waiting in fucking line doesn't have any costs? You don't think people won't just walk out with the merchandise without paying, (like they are) or just leave without their shit, go to another store where they aren't doing that retarded shit, etc?
Why do you think market forces don't matter?
Anonymous
>>1271004 Ah the market forces of democrat retail theft, one of the seldom accounted for macroeconomic force
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Honestly I'm sick of the self checkout thing.
Anonymous
>>1271008 When Republicans steal they call it white color crime and the dollar amounts are much larger.
Anonymous
>>1271008 They call it shrinkage, it's more politically correct.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>1271018 Uh, Democrats do that too. All the time. Usually from the government.
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>>1271033 Democrat fraud and corruption really has become an epidemic, as if democrat retail theft weren't too much already
Anonymous
>>1271004 >As if keeping everyone waiting in fucking line doesn't have any costs? Literally no. Anyone willing to walk out without paying is gonna do that no matter how long the line is and nobody is gonna wait until checkout to decide if a store is too busy.
Besides, all their competitors do the same fucking thing. Dollar Generals have like 2 people per store MAX for example. And other big box stores pull the same shit.
>Why do you think market forces don't matter? Why do you think Walmart doesn't go out of their way to crush local competition? They literally don't.
FFS Walmart lets other companies sell shit in their stores as market research to find what products to knock off so they can undercut their competition with store brand shit that will eventually replace that shelf space. Everything they do is calculated to make money, customers be damned, and you think leaving check-outs empty isn't profitable? A thing they have been doing for decades? Motherfucker, if it wasn't, they wouldn't be doing it.
Anonymous
>>1271044 Comparing Walmart to Dollar general is pretty lulzy.
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>>1271045 it's all poverty to me
Anonymous
>>1271045 Overpriced cheap shit with no local competition or staff is overpriced cheap shit with no local competition or staff.
Also they view each other as competition, so they are fucking comparable. Basically the only place you won't find a Dollar General is near a Walmart.
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>>1271004 >You don't think people won't just walk out with the merchandise without paying, just don't build your walmart in a black area.
see food deserts
>or just leave without their shit, go to another store where they aren't doing that retarded shit, etc? another store
in the south where walmart exists
top kek
I'm also sure they have research on how long people will wait and try to have the lines be around that long
Anonymous
>>1271018 those are jews, not republicans
Anonymous
>>1271102 And Republicans support Israel, your point?
Anonymous
>>1271063 There are other grocery stores, dipshit.
Anonymous
>>1271103 Literally everyone except breadtubers and impotent genderspecials support Israel, so I'm not sure what point you think you're making
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>>1271131 >There are other grocery stores 1. Walmart drives out local competition.
2. There being other grocers doesn't mean there are other grocers near enough that by the time you factored in the added drive it wouldn't take longer than to get through Walmart's checkout.
3. Other grocers do that shit too.
4. Walmart owns Sam's Club, just FYI.
Anonymous
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>>1271154 In your fucking dreams kike
Anonymous
>>1271004 >You don't think people won't just walk out with the merchandise without paying, (like they are) or just leave without their shit Back during the covid retardation, I had been standing in line at the grocery store for 25mins and was about to say "fuck it!" and leave my cart and walk out the door, when... the guy in front of me said "fuck it!", (LOUDLY) left his cart and walked out the door. At that point I was stuck, as I didn't want to look like a copy-cat. Ended up standing in line for another 15mins or so...
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>>1271044 >Besides, all their competitors do the same fucking thing. Dollar Generals have like 2 people per store MAX for example. Oakridge Market here in metro Detroit always had two lanes open (they only had 4 total) and the checkout was quick. But their prices were noticeably higher (despite being just a run-of-the-mill grocery store) and now they're out of business.
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>>1270686 I really hate thee corporate fuckers. They can't just say, oh people are stealing too much so we're getting rid of self checkouts. No, they have to spin it. We're always looking at ways to innovate, bring something fresh! Improve the shopper experience. These people would rape you and while you cry they'd blame you and say you're being moody and unappreciative.
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>>1270823 Why are Republicans like yourself so hell bent on pushing crab mentality?
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>>1271313 Bro I drop my shit and leave all the time. I was literally at a store today that is normally awesome and they had some new retard there. I waited for maybe 5 minutes for him to start acting like he was going to get my order, (It's not a big box retail store, he had to get my shit out of the back) and he started helping another person that came in, and I was done.
I've left several carts full of shit at the entrance when the lines are too long. The frozen shit that has to get thrown away is the shrinkage they should be factoring in to not having any open cashiers to pay and fucking leave.
