A large amount of product was stolen by people cheating at the self scan stations. These only work when honest people shop and use them.
It made it easier for people that normally wouldn't straight up pocket things to attempt it. Hardcore thieves aren't even bothering with scamming the self-checkout. They just load up a cart, leave the store, and try to get it into a waiting car before they are confronted. My brother who works for a Hy-Vee in Omaha has stopped a couple of people trying that.
Absolutely no chance that I'd use that. None.
It’s the way things are trending.
Yes but you see taking the customer into account gets in the way of charting 10% growth every year infinitely
Relying on the shopper to scan items at the cart is the exact same as relying on the shopper to scan items at the checkout. By implanting codes in each item, and linking it to a payment method, you can’t put it in the cart without paying for it.
I remember that too. Most of the HyVees around here still have the areas where you’d pull up to get your car loaded by an employee … but they’ve turned them all into pharmacy drive-ups.
But how do the items you put in the cart get scanned? That’s where you’d need the implanted chip or code, right, that gets read by RFID or something? If you rely on the barcode getting scanned, you’re still relying on the customer to do it, instead of just dumping items in there and not paying for them.
Probably should build a plant on Arrakis closer to the source of the product.
