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i dont even steal from these, i just prefer less interaction and faster checkout ๐คท
If a cashier scans something incorrectly, its their mistake. If I scan something incorrectly, its theft. I'd rather not take on that liability.
No one is gonna report you to police for failing to scan a โฌ0.50 piece of bread when doing โฌ80 worth of grocery shopping
Depends on jurisdiction. In Germany, in order to qualify as theft, there needs to be intent. So just an error is not enough.
How to prove "intentional vs. not-intentional"? Easy: the whiter and richer you are, the more likely it is for you to convince everybody that it was a honest mistake ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
i dont think ive ever scanned anything incorrectly. even if i did, it would have been a piece of fruit. in the case that anyone ever speaks to me about it in the future, i will just tell them "oh, oops" and then fix it. doesnt seem like much of a liability to me.
on the other hand, when i ring things through, you better believe i notice if a price is off, then i have them fix it if its higher than it should be and i say nothing if its lower. sounds like they are taking the liability as it were, which again i dont think is a serious factor.
You are not faster than a cashier.
No, it's way more relaxed and honestly I don't wanna speak to someone after a whole day of yapping at the office. I just wanna pack the groceries into my bag in peace
I'm faster than queuing for a cashier.
And if it's one where you take the scanner round the shop with you, it's certainly faster than unpacking it all and repacking it.
I'm faster than the line of people buying ice and lotto tickets and cigarettes and paying with a check.
Yes, but the cashier has a line of people waiting, and the self checkouts don't.
So I get a massive head start, and I still finish first.
There would not be a line at the cashier if there were more of them. There are fewer checkouts available because the space is wasted on the self-check out. The self checkout created the problem.
Let's not pretend they open all the checkouts and it's space keeping them limited.
If you want to use the space argument 6 self checkouts take the space of 2 cashiers
This might perhaps be true in the land of XXL everything, but in the space it takes to have 3 cashiers you can easily install 2 rows of 4 self checkout machines, and in Europe space tends to be more scarce.
They are a massive space saver, and when that's the space you have, 8 self-checkouts and a cashier have more throughput than 4 cashiers (which don't even tend to be staffed all at once).
Not true, there are less because it costs money to pay for more cashiers
obviously my self checkout experience is faster, or i would go to a cashier. we've been over this.
Yeah if I steal from them it's only by mistake.
I'm the opposite though. I always go to the line with a person because I feel rushed in the self checkout if it's busy.
I go to the cashier when I can. But when they only have one and that cashier's line is 8 deep and they all have full carts and I have two items, both of which are frozen, I'm using self checkout. I can't help it if the store cheaps out on cashiers.
thats funny ive never felt rushed at a self checkout, but i can see what you mean.