Also contributing factor is increase in self-checkouts. At the Walmart I shop, they increased self-checkout stations four fold, and got rid of checkout clerks.
Bonanza for dishonest customers.
Agreed. The self checkout tends to make honest people consider forgetting to scan something.
My dad used to say padlocks are there to keep honest people honest. Same applies to staffed checkouts as nothing get get by the person running the cash register.
Yes self checkout is a criminal’s paradise
I have noticed many of those self checkouts have been roped off or corralled lately.
WM is doing what Sears and Wards didn’t do-go increasingly into online sales-it is becoming an electronic version of the Sears catalog that served rural markets. When you sell online, you don’t need as many stores.