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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech (www.businessinsider.com)

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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech::When Walmart's anti-theft self-checkout tech alerts an employee of a missed scan, it can cause some uncomfortable situations.

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[-] ITypeWithMyDick@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

What regular checkout? Around here they are all closed down and only self checkout is available.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Take all your shit to customer service and check out there.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

It’s an asshole move everyone should use until they stop understaffing checkout.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What customer service? That shit's closed too.

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I might uniroically start doing this. Or I would if I thought for a second it'd do anything other than inconvenience the employees..

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