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.

  • No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    No we just care less about theft. The German ones are build to maximace speed and therefore usability. This theoretically makes it rather easy to steal.

    If this would become to much of a problem they would also reduce comfort to increase security

    • polle@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      Is it really? I imagine, paying a Person for every checkout must be way more expensive than some higher theft rate.