The self-checkout kiosks are kinda scary. They have your mug shot to go with the scans of the items.
I suppose Google/Alphabet has told Amazon that I shop at other locations. /humor
I never use them but I bet they plan to make us use them
Walmart should give a 10% discount for everything that is scanned by a customer. I don’t work for Walmart and it pisses me off to do their job for them. The checkout employees are still there but only half the lanes are manned or womanned. (I guess “womanned” is a word these days.)10% discount and I will get very good at the job.
I hate self scanners. Something goes wrong more often than not, and the scanner prompts are often confusing, as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t know if this is the system but one I’ve heard is coming (deployed in a few) has the receipt number tied to the video capture.
This is saved so that WM can tie the receipt to actual video of the checkout and bagging. They’ll be able to see if the items were bagged for the customer, as I understand it (I heard info on the sale of the system).
Regardless, just another component in our surveillance society. As I’ve told the story before, I saw a Latino gal, maybe 21-28 bagging her stuff at the self-check lane not too far from me. Maybe 15-20 feet away (I was in self-check-out too, which is rare for me).
Two off-duty city cops, in uniform mind you were working security. They were also standing only a few feet from her. Both of them.
The cameras were being monitored. She didn’t get 4-6 feet away from the register before they grabbed her and put the cuffs on her. I watched it all go down right in front of me.
Apparently she had not scanned each of her items before putting them in the bag(s).
The cops must have had ear-pieces of some sort because they grabbed her really fast and knew exactly which one they were going for.
