@mrbojangles25 said:
@sakaixx said:
@rmpumper said:
@mattbbpl said:
@mrbojangles25: The problem is it normalizes it, increasing its depth and scope. My cousin would happily tell us how she cuts her grocery bill into a fraction by scanning tortillas with a pack of steaks under it or hiding shrimp under a box of donuts.
That's on that particular retailer for not having a proper system with scales on the basket side and the scanned item side, where both have to mach by the end of your scanning, or an employ comes over to double check your bullshit job at it.
Sure, people could still scan the wrong barcode or select the cheaper item for the scaled items like when buying loose fruit and stuff, but at least they can't just skip the expensive items altogether.
Easily solved if there staff or guards that lookout for suspicious activity and as well as check and stamp your receipt before leaving the store.
Ah, but then we have to add extra employees to guard the machine that is supposed to remove extra employees from payroll!
CHECKMATE!
I know you're joking, but, like, yes!
There's already a lot that can and does go wrong in the process. Unreadable barcode, item on sale not scanning as on sale, item not in system, item not in inventory.
As we start adding in complexity, more things can go wrong, and we ask more of untrained customers trying to do a job they don't know how to do. All items must be bagged and so they can be weighed. If I have more bags than fit on the weigh station, how do I handle that? If I remove one to make room for another, can the system handle that? What if I have an item that's too big to be bagged or fit on the station? Do I even know if this location weighs items?
There are some locations I shop at which I can scan the same item numerous times if I got multiples. Others require every UPC to be scanned individually despite the fact that cashier's can can scan once and enter "multiply by x."
Another location I shop at places second barcodes on sale items. Which is the customer supposed to scan?
This all increases complexity and increases personnel requirements on a system which has a selling point of being automated.
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