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LordCrom@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The home depot near me has only self checkout … I guess it was such a problem that they now have a team of workers standing next to each station to ‘assist’ with checkout.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
The Lowes near me does the same. Their only job seems to be trying to sell a shitty credit card, and I guess making sure nobody steals shit?
But yeah, it feels like they put in self checkout to save money on labor, then lost money to theft, so now they pay people to just watch you do self checkout instead of having them do the checkout like they were doing in the first place.