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Posted on 05/03/2025 1:36:18 PM PDT by DFG
Self-checkout is checking out.
Target is removing self-checkout stations from stores as thieves use the kiosks to conduct their crimes.
Last March, the popular chain announced plans to limit self-checkout to 10 items and limit or remove self-checkout kiosks amid complaints about clunky technology and concerns about rising theft.
Along with paring back customers’ self-checkout hauls, stores will expand the number of traditional checkout lanes available.
Reddit user @jxbermudez72 shared a photo two weeks ago showing where the store they shop at had a large empty space where the self-check out stations had been.
“The target I live near completely got rid of self checkout,” the user wrote.
Plenty of others replied to the thread claiming their local Target had done the same.
And shoppers are not happy with having to wait to have an employee scan their items.
“Ugh, I hate this… I just want to get my groceries without forcing people to do more labor,” someone replied to the thread.
“This definitely is not the better option,” one person said after a terrible experience waiting in line. ” I went to my local Target to pick up a flashlight that was on sale. Took me almost a 1/2 hour. There was a group of people waiting and one girl running herself ragged.”
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But only in some neighborhoods?
(Target is removing self-checkout stations from stores as thieves use the kiosks to conduct their crimes.)
Thieves LOVE Self-Checkout
I know this from very reliable sources
Stupid is as stupid does. Piss poor management and marketing.
You can see women from time to time in the Bay Area not scanning some items at self-checkout - with their kids watching them do it. Parenting at its finest.
The Walmart near me just did the opposite they went from 12 self-checkouts to close to 24.
Isn’t Sams Club doing the opposite, soon requiring all checkouts to use an AI app with scanning?
I personally refuse to use self check out. There are still a number of options from going to another store or ordering on line.
What an idiot! Target is FORCING YOU to "do more labor" at self checkout. They have YOU doing THEIR JOB!
No surprise Target customers would be likely the type to steal. Once again honest people have to be inconvenienced by actions of the dishonest creeps.
Which EVERYONE knew when the self checkouts became a thing.
and that is my major complaint about self-checkout. no discount for doing someone else’s job and no personalized service. wifey likes it but when shopping with her I demand the service I’m paying for.
That’s the smart way to go. Probably the only way to stop theft.
“Ugh, I hate this… I just want to get my groceries without forcing people to do more labor,” someone replied to the thread.”
That is pure BS. Nobody is forced to work at a checkout.
I think this person is upset because he ripped the store off at the self checkout. LOL
Good! I hope this goes viral. The problem is they will take them out and then out of greed try to not hire more checkers for the demand. Can’t have both...
Interesting. Most stores give you the option. Remember when you sat in your car while they pumped your gas, checked your oil and cleaned the windshield?
What the hell did they expect? They already have millions lost to shoplifting every year, did they really think putting in an honor system would work?
Has Targeeaaah fixed their bathroom situation?
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