Customers who go through self-checkout must use the device to scan their receipt’s barcode — confirming that they paid something — which opens a metal gate, letting them leave.
How is that supposed to help at all in stopping theft? “Oh, you paid for something, you definitely aren’t leaving with anything you didn’t pay for.” I can’t see a way “organized crime” could possibly work around that. /s
Its the DRM of shopping.
Impacts legit customers, does very little for everyone else.
After the media hype of a shoplifting crime spree hitting world wide, i imagine this is some businesses answer to that, and they managed to sell it to supermarkets
Yeah, as much as I think this is a stupid idea I don’t think it’s as bad as Walmart trying to implement Costco style receipt checkers. The less human involvement the more I’m likely to screw up and miss scanning something. Definitely by accident obviously, I wouldn’t want to steal from a faceless corporation that only reluctantly employs anyone.
Small caveat, but Walmart isn’t copying Costco. Sam’s Club has always done the receipt checking, too, and Walmart/Sam’s Club are owned by the same people. So in a way, they’re bringing their Sam’s Club behavior over into general Walmart. What makes this infuriating is not only being treated like a thief and having to go through more steps to get out of the fucking store, but I didn’t pay for any perks or sign any contract that allows you to search my shit.
We don’t have Sam’s club in Canada so I was not aware, but regardless my point was a human looking at what’s in your cart and verifying your receipt vs. a machine checking that a receipt simply exists.
How is that supposed to help at all in stopping theft? “Oh, you paid for something, you definitely aren’t leaving with anything you didn’t pay for.” I can’t see a way “organized crime” could possibly work around that. /s
Its the DRM of shopping.
Impacts legit customers, does very little for everyone else.
After the media hype of a shoplifting crime spree hitting world wide, i imagine this is some businesses answer to that, and they managed to sell it to supermarkets
Yeah, as much as I think this is a stupid idea I don’t think it’s as bad as Walmart trying to implement Costco style receipt checkers. The less human involvement the more I’m likely to screw up and miss scanning something. Definitely by accident obviously, I wouldn’t want to steal from a faceless corporation that only reluctantly employs anyone.
Small caveat, but Walmart isn’t copying Costco. Sam’s Club has always done the receipt checking, too, and Walmart/Sam’s Club are owned by the same people. So in a way, they’re bringing their Sam’s Club behavior over into general Walmart. What makes this infuriating is not only being treated like a thief and having to go through more steps to get out of the fucking store, but I didn’t pay for any perks or sign any contract that allows you to search my shit.
We don’t have Sam’s club in Canada so I was not aware, but regardless my point was a human looking at what’s in your cart and verifying your receipt vs. a machine checking that a receipt simply exists.
For sure, I wasn’t trying to gotcha or anything. Just adding context for others reading the thread