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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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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

  • makes the shopping experience shittier for the rest of us (locked merchandise)

  • the syndicates fencing these goods use the money to support actual harmful crimes

  • the people doing the thieving often get violent themselves

  • raises prices and causes store closures

  • people don't want to work in shitty stores, so the workers they have do the bare minimum (again, worse shopping experience for the rest of us)

The bazaars where people sell the stolen goods also cause lots of problems.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

NGL I genuinely prefer the bazaars and street markets over the big box stores.

I take your point with the thieves getting violent. The others, ehh. The big box stores really ought not to be there in the first place and be replaced with little specialized mom and pop joints owned by locals the way life used to be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay so then we have mom and pops, who can't absorb the loss, getting their shit stolen. Don't see how that helps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then we could have this talk. Then we could debate the morality of it.

Until that time, stealing from Walmart will always be the ethical thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh for the love of

I've been taking to a literal child.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

You've been talking to yourself, yes