The only remaining stores in urban ghettos should be owned by Asians/Indians.
Posted on 05/19/2024 4:28:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A proposed Senate bill would prohibit self-checkout lanes for customers at all California grocery and retail drug stores unless certain conditions are met. It’s all in an effort to combat theft.
“I think self-checkouts are pretty good in terms of efficiency," said David Kisieu, Cal Poly student. "If I don’t have a lot of stuff, I don’t really want to wait and deal with a lot of people. I just scan something really quickly and leave."
Senate Bill 1446, proposed by state Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas of Los Angeles, stores would be able to offer self-checkout lanes if the checkouts are limited to 10 items or less and at least one manual checkout lane is staffed by an employee.
“If I’m going to use self-checkout, I’m going to use 10 items or fewer anyways, so if it’s a way to deter theft, sure,” Kisieu said.
“It kind of keeps it fair for people because if you’re going to have more than 10 items it’s going to take you a minute," said Brendan Smith, Cal Poly student. "It defeats the whole purpose of helping mitigate the lines because then there’s just going to be another big line over there."
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More Marxist/Fascist style attempt for the government to over-regulate over-control businesses, and always offered as something “government must do” to solve problems often created by government.
Maybe the proponents of the measure do not really give a dam about retail theft, they are just trying “to protect workers jobs”, as if we could believe their measure is the way to do that - NOT.
We don’t need government. Just leave it to the retailers…and allow the retailers to resist thieves with force.
What’s the difference when certain people can shoplift all they want anyway?
Huh?! It’s it all about grab & run, no thief cares about check-out rules.
When did Americans decide it was OK for politicians to dictate how many items we can have in the checkout lane?
If they are to interview College students - tell us what they are Majoring in. College students are often dumb as F. I know, because I was one.
Lock up the CROOKS, not the GROCERIES. Then we don’t need the hyphenated wack jobs telling us how to go shopping.
Why is this subject to a government law?
Fascist...very correct. You own it, but we tell you how to run it. ‘Cause we know better.
That’s a great way to combat shoplifting. The stores will go out of business or move out of state, so there will be no shops to lift from.
Although the company is is based in California, Auntie Anne’s pretzel shops will not be opening any new eateries in the state due to the California’s horrendous business climate. They will be expanding into other states.
It should remain a business decision for the stores. If theft is less expensive than employees, they’ll want to keep the self checkout. Where it gets more expensive than employees, Walmart is already restricting self checkout (See St. Louis and Cleveland, for example) and others can follow suit.
I like self checkouts, but then, I’m not a thief.
Do they ban five-finger checkouts?
...And you don’t own it either. Try not paying or underestimating your taxes. Or actively speak out against our betters. See what happens.
Well, this is true.
I’ve the same question. Are there any limits?
Can they pass a law requiring everyone to wear a “Trump is a Poopyhead” T-shirt? I mean, why not? Where does it end?
Don’t those people have enough time to shop? It’s not as if they have to go to work.
Leave it to the retailer to decide for themselves which of their stores will offer self checkout. I think the simple formula will be that stores in low theft middle class suburbs can have them while stores robbed blind in urban ghettos will not only not offer them but the inventory will be under lock and key. Isn’t that precisely why they have retail deserts?
The only remaining stores in urban ghettos should be owned by Asians/Indians.
Racists
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