Actually false in the UK

A pressure pad and conveyer belt can do 90% of the job a regular cashier can

Have you ever been to a modern store?

Sainsbury and Tesco on average have equal otherwise more self checkouts than manned tills

They never have all the lanes active at once

It's only a couple

The self checkouts always operate at maximum capacity

Its pretty much a basket worth's at most, no shopping trolleys, there's no way to reliably automate the number of shoppers wanting 400 items going through 20 times an hour lol

Bring us forward

And those are few and far between

And they can bring in people who are actually not shit at their job to do that

Actually false as well OTG

As opposed to min wage hirwlings

Imagine a fully automated store, no cahiers, would just be a free for all for thieves

You don't fully automate

But security is still there

In the UK sainsbury they have these scanners you pick up as you go into the shop and you scan items in as you put them in your trolley, then pay for it at the end

And they already get payed over min wage

What would stop anyone from just taking a trolley, filling up and waltzing out, lol

You know at the door

Hey have

You literally walk out at the end after paying and putting the scanner back

Those scanner thinga

self checkout is trash

With the alarm

The alarm dude

lol, they are a scam

People trialled it it works legity

it works so well, thats why i hate it

And anyways they always have an employee keeping an eye on the self check out lanes

For example I know in one it was something simple (a packet of crisps) and it caught it

only the stuff with the magnets on them set a scanner off

And yet when a scanner goes off in sainsburys nobody comes running

They have security cameras and stuff too

In retail stores I've worked in there's always a security dude by the scanner

I think you are equating one small store to all retail stores improperly

Literally talking out of your ass though dude- these things are already in existence and working in the UK

I'll go get the link for it

People are so set on there always being a lower class that doesn't earn much and barely scrapes by, while companies make billions, resisting anyone who says "Maybe its not such a good thing to have so many poor people"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sainsburys-self-service-supermarket-retail-jobs-automation-impact-a8893491.html

Literally an app and a scanner gun