this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
381 points (97.7% liked)

Technology

59578 readers
3092 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
381
Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
216 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Take all your shit to customer service and check out there.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

It’s an asshole move everyone should use until they stop understaffing checkout.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

What customer service? That shit's closed too.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I might uniroically start doing this. Or I would if I thought for a second it'd do anything other than inconvenience the employees..