Retailers in Europe, like Booths supermarkets, and the United States, like Walmart, are pulling back on having self-checkout in light of complaints and shoplifting.
They have the weighing thing, and then also the people who count your items at the door… so it would be hard to do. I think the thought was it’s just more efficient to help if the employees are already standing there.
I read somewhere that this can mean they think you might steal stuff.
At my Costco they have employees at every self check out. Pretty counterintuitive but eh. I treat it like a “10 items or less” sort of thing
They have the weighing thing, and then also the people who count your items at the door… so it would be hard to do. I think the thought was it’s just more efficient to help if the employees are already standing there.