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?
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?
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?
Racists
Those conveyor belts are so germy I prefer self checkout and bagging my groceries the way I want them
No need to traipse all the way to one of them city stores when you can have the convenience of fine merchandise brought by truck to your front yard.
This could be more about preventing business from automating in order to save $20 an hour jobs. As noted, five-finger shoppers do not care about checkout lines.
Why did we get tem anyway? Seems like what demos try, and it all goes downhill, but somone always gets rich or richer.\
Anyone need a bankruptcy about now?
It is not about the shoplifting or security. It is about increasing hiring if union store clerks. Follow the $$$$$.
The usual suspects shoplift stores into bankruptcy, then the gov’t makes them pay the extra cashiers $20/hr.