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Or just anyone who likes the convenience (startrek.website)

submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] Mini_Moonpie@startrek.website 25 points 9 months ago

This isn't automation though. The self checkout tech is the same tech that a cashier uses. It's not automated. A human still does the work, they just don't get paid for it.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I mean, technically the self-checkout package has automation in it, a scale and cameras to "automate" the process of ensuring what was scanned was what was bagged, a process by which the station determines when employee intervention is necessary, etc. Automation tech is in there, things a person used to do are being done by technology, but again it wasn't created to improve the way it was done before, merely to make the owner more money.

[-] Mini_Moonpie@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

The registers with cashiers also have scales and cameras and systems that are built in to determine when a CSM is required for things like overrides. The tech is not appreciably different. It's not automation.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Our self checkouts completely abandoned the stupid scales except when needed for fruit and such. Enforcing the packing with scales makes for a fucking horrible experience.

I haven't seen any cameras though.

Personally I like that they are more space efficient and time efficient.

Here it is also common to carry around a hand scanner in the store and just pay by docking the scanner without having to pack up anything. It's way quicker.

[-] Beelzebubba@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Seriously, fuck the scales. The grocery store near me recently shut theirs off. I found the manager and thanked him. That thing annoyed the piss out of me.

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Here it is also common to carry around a hand scanner in the store and just pay by docking the scanner without having to pack up anything. It's way quicker.

I don’t have that here but I do have a regional grocery chain that allows you to use your phone as the scanner as you shop, then you just go to a terminal at the end of your trip and scan a QR code to finalize. I love it.