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Originally Posted by officedweller
Only self serve checkouts.
I guess customers in South Granville are trustworthy?
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Originally Posted by kikin
I boycott self-serve checkouts. We need more jobs for people.
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The did have staff monitoring the self-serve chekout stations (several in fact), and also the store had quite a bit of security guards (in fact,... quite a bit more than I'm used to seeing at Supermarkets).
Also the way the store is laid out makes it kind of hard to shoplift and make a dash out, unless you want to have a nasty fall down the long escalators after bashing your gonads on several barriers along the way as you try to escape the guards.
I suppose it helps that a large chunk of their (weekly) customer-base will be office-workers, who typically don't fit or fill the "shoplifter" profile.
Also,..
No store owner or business owner is ever going to eschew using self-serve checkouts or automated service machines in favor of hiring more humans at the checkout or service points, if they can.
Especially when the former saves them millions from (not having to pay for) health insurance, sick days, break-times, training....
Robotic assemblers are standard in car manufacturing plants today, despite everyone's protestations against them in the 1980's and 90's when car manufacturers started using them.
There still are people working at the stores.
They're just not at the checkouts (where they're least effecient for the store in terms of cost-effeciency), but rather at places like the Customer-Service, the Deli counter and bakery and the inventory storage backroom.
And of course the aforementioned security.
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