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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Unstaffed tills were supposed to revolutionise shopping. Now, both retailers and customers are bagging many self-checkout kiosks.

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Walmart, at least, has belted self-checkout lanes in addition to the little ones. Sucks that, at least at my local one, they’re almost never actually running, and neither are the manned lanes with belts.

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