“But a checkout lady once caught me with mangoes, very embarrassing, and I didn’t do it much after that.” He ended the message with an Emoji of a face beneath a halo. “A couple of times I tried exotic fruits as potatoes,” a friend wrote in a text one morning. And more than a few said they bagged items that failed to scan, half-shifting the blame on to a faulty machine. Another regularly declares chocolate croissants as bread rolls. “Must have forgotten to swipe it through,” she said. Several of mine confessed to pilfering something from a self-checkout machine at some point, though nearly all of those added a caveat: only small stuff. Everyone’s at itįor an idea of how close to home the issue really is, try mentioning it to your friends, like I did. Some scams have names – “the banana trick” (steaks as potatoes), “the switcheroo” (cheap barcodes for pricey ones), “sweethearting” (when a checkout supervisor only pretends to scan an object before handing it to a loved one, gratis) – though there are so many techniques not all of them do. The barcodes of pricey objects – wine, beer, spirits, cosmetics – are deliberately obscured by stickers removed from significantly cheaper on-sale items. Expensive grapes are scanned as inexpensive carrots. Need proof? Look online, perhaps at a Reddit thread, and you’ll find anecdotes of petty self-checkout theft delivered with something like a stick-it-to-the-man pride. Though, to be honest, on another day I might have swayed the other way. The fact that since being introduced mainly in the early 2000's the total number of cashiers hired grew more then it had in the previous 2 decades before that.I picked the second option, eventually. Its my complete disbelief that these machines have taken away the over all total number of positions and that the argument against them is the same that was used a hundred years ago when store clerks got replaced with self shopping stores, most states it used to be illegal to pump your own gas and yet there are now more gas stations employees then there was a decade ago, same goes for ATMs, people said they would destroy the Bank Teller Career when infact that position grew exponentially over the last 50 years. This is the same for the other companys you listed as is normal with any large scale global enterprise. Wincore has 54 different locations around the globe all manufacturing locations with a few global office dotted in the US and Germany, they only have one in China because your article was biased anyways they have 2 different locations the United States. Just doing a quick browse of the companys websites and even an individual Google search can show that half of this is cherry picked while a good chunk is outdated or just wrong. Good job thinking the problem out though. They didn't get on the internet to have a productive discussion today, and anything you say is not going to make them have one tomorrow. To the other point about "i don't work here, why am I baggin'?" or "day too der jerbs!", you can just tell those knuckle draggers to suck a puck. There will also be follow up maintenance, and many people learning new skills along the way. Some custom part work can be farmed out, and thousand of common components are purchased from other parts manufacturers to complete jobs. We have designers, fabricators, welders, assemblers, electricians, programmers, machinists, quality, material handlers, and delivery involved just in the build shop. You hit most of the jobs that are involved in the creation of a machine. Machines don't call in sick, complain, and always do (fingers crossed) what they are supposed to without deviation. It is impossible to know that number, but the management of any company regards it as a net positive when automation can take care of part of their operations. I work on machines that are worth a lot more than the self checkouts, but the principle is the same.
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