So a few years ago Kohls fired most of their LP staff. Their thinking was “We still have theft, so let’s save money by firing all LP and it will pay the difference of theft” SUPRISE! Theft went up 5x and now they can’t hire the people back because they got new jobs. I’m sure they have the CEO a raise for that brilliant idea.
Unexpected item in the bagging area!
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Tiral@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I feel like being a CEO is the easiest job on the planet. You can fail and make the dumbest decisions possible yet still be grossly overpaid with little to no consequences
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
You think the decision is dumb. But for them the decision probably improved the company’s bottom line at a crucial moment when their performance-related bonus is being calculated. And it also opens the door to sideways promotion.
e.g. Twatty McBallbag Ltd: profit with loss prevention staff = 1 million
profit the first month after all loss prevention staff were fired = 1.2 million
profit the sixth month after all loss prevention staff were fired = 0.6 millionThey claim the saving of 0.2 million (as a result of reducing staff costs) and get their performance related bonus. They also get to write 'While CEO at Twatty McBallbag Ltd, I increased profit by 20%", on their CV and move on to a new company with profits in the 10s of millions.
ch00f@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Oh this is a PS5? I thought it was bananas.”
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Playnana
RustyNova@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
I once shoplifted pepper once. Purely accidentally.
Yeah that one’s on the store’s fault
king_comrade@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The theft will continue until service improves.
LordCrom@lemmy.world 6 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.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 4 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.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Capitalism breeds innovation
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’ve shoplifted at a self-checkout once, because the bag of chips i was trying to scan kept bugging out the machine
realitista@lemmus.org 6 hours ago
Organic bananas are just bananas in my book
slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Aren’t all bananas organic? I have never seen a synthetic one
Gormadt@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
I never have but damn have I thought about it a few times
REDACTED@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
I occasionally “steal” a bag because I forget about it up until the point I have to start bagging, but I can no longer add new items
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yet another way for the wealthy to steal productivity.
I get some of you like it and that’s fine but I hate it on principle.
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Here we call them the “inflation compensation check-out”
Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I like the self-checkout because it feels like I’m wasting less time at the checkout. I scan everything while walking through the store so when I get to the self-checkout I just have to pay and I’m out.
The only store where I like the regular checkout is Aldi because those cashiers are fast and the belt is long.
The worst checkout system we have is in a store called Colruyt. The cashiers have to load everything from your cart to an empty cart while they scan it. It was already a slow system and it got worse since they installed ‘smart’ cameras above the checkout to scan the codes instead of using the handscanner.tias@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Self checkout works just fine in Sweden, the only people with an issue are dementia-ridden elderly (but they can’t make sense of how to pay with a debit card either).
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I hope you get dementia
Zier@fedia.io 6 hours ago
Please don't make me go to the checker who can't stop sharing about their super boring life!
The machines only beep.Gormadt@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
I like learning about other people
It helps distract me from my boring life lol
lime@feddit.nu 7 hours ago
that’s crazy, here everyone is installing them and they seem to be paying for themselves many times over.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
In theory they can save a bunch on labor costs by having 1 person look over the lot and being ready for help vs having an army of clerks.
NGL I dig self checkout
bstix@feddit.dk 5 hours ago
They also saves us from hearing the privileged “can you open a line more” idiots and playing the game where old people pretend that they never learned how to queue.
If I want human interaction, I will go to a human, not a grocery store.
I’d actually be happy if they can remove the cashier job completely, so nobody has to waste their life ringing up other people 's shit, while getting abused by same people. Hardly anyone takes pride in doing that job anyway.
Despite machines and AI we don’t really see increasing unemployment. People simply do more interesting things.
I’m all for protecting workers, but we don’t do that by keeping them in dead end jobs.
LightDelaBlue@jlai.lu 5 hours ago
i mean… alls soda cans weight the same… why buy the expensive monsters wen you can pass a cheap one instead
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
How do you do that though… you have to scan every barcode and if you get chosen for a random check the shop employee will scan all codes again and you face the risk of being reported to the police for shoplifting.
Or does the US have some different system?
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
I have, in the US, never seen a person “randomly selected” for a grocery rescan. I imagine the first store to try it would get sued for discrimination within short order. I have seen many kinds of shoplifting done multiple times though:
- scan a different UPC
- lie about which kind of fruit it is
- scan one, bag 2 (for light items)
- scan one cheap thing multiple times while bagging other stuff
- just straight up “forget” to scan a big item and walk out with it
- walk in with old receipt, skip checkout entirely
Some stores do a receipt check but they almost always just do a count and don’t have time for detailed looks. Supposedly several US stores (Amazon-owned Whole Foods is notorious for it) will save up security footage of chronic shoplifters to wait until they’ve stolen enough to bring federal charges.
There are cameras all over self-checkout but it’s easy enough to palm things or slip expensive items into your bags without it being obvious. Maybe with AI they can start scanning every video for signals but it seems to me that only the really bold and overt thieves get caught.
LightDelaBlue@jlai.lu 4 hours ago
im not in the us.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Took me longer than I’m proud of to realise that 500g of pasta weighs the same as 500g of beef
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Yeah, it’s the training, definitely not anything else.
Saapas@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
This guy needs training for self-checkout? Lol
quotable@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 minutes ago
You mean you can’t just fire all of your checkout staff and replace them with shitty machines and then make me do extra work while you pocket the difference?
Shocked, I’m shocked.
It’s taken them like two decades to figure this out? Same thing goes with AI, but the damage will be a lot worse.