in the UK they weigh the baggage area and if you don’t scan something it’ll should “UNEXPECTED ITEM I THE BAGGAGE AREA” and you get publicly shamed by all the whiter than white old people.
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python@lemmy.world 5 months ago[deleted]
copd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Interesting. Where are the weighs? Do you HAVE to out your bag on a special place?
I wonder we don’t have that yet too. But then again, overworked and understaffed. Noone cares if anything beeps or not. Even if the door-alarms go off, nothing happens. In no store, ever. It’s just that the vast majority of Germans are so obedient, they instantly stop, go to the next employee and explain themselves.
PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Certain grocery chains in Canada employ these types of self checkout scanners. Every item is weighed, your bags need to be on the scale from the start and there’s a camera over each checkout.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Sounds annoying. But we just recently introduced those selfcheckouts. We’re probably still midage and changes like those will come.
copd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes you do have to put your bag in a special place. It’s effectively impossible to accidentally steal something without using your pockets
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Interesting. Sounds pretty foolproof. Wonder why they don’t do such thing here. You just scan or you don’t.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 5 months ago
at the wm here, if you even look at the scanner cross-eyed, it sounds the alarms and halts the register until the babysitter can come over, review the footage and unlock it. if anything passes anywhere in the cameras’ very wide fov and a scan isn’t registered… anything… it stops.
they got sam’s club-like checkers at the exits, now, too. anything not in a bag gets ‘checked’… at least that’s what we’ve concluded is their criteria, based on when we have been stopped trying to leave.
me thinks they’ve had a slight uptick in ‘customer-applied discounts’ lately.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
They beep so fucking loud here, this would not fly well with a cashier (or can) that watches well 😁
But we came up with different ways to do it over time. And yes, self checkout mostly, but we also do it at register if we have to. The most brazen one was a whole fucking door we drove by the cashier while my wife distracted him with questions and her charme 😁
We should not be proud of that, but we are. We probably wouldn’t even have noticed the price hikes. But I absolutely despise that they force you to pay more for things you can’t boycott. I can just not buy a car, but I can’t not buy food to protest. Fucking greed.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Bluetooth speaker in your pocket and a beep sound on your partner’s phone.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
might work, but that’s a bit of overkill. I prefer sleigh-of-hand or simply not scanning many things. People are already overworked and understaffed, noone’s gonna check anyway. The cameras are just scare-tactics too.