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ooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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Unstaffed tills were supposed to revolutionise shopping. Now, both retailers and customers are bagging many self-checkout kiosks.
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    If you work for free, you’re bound to make mistakes. Sometimes a pound of fish might get rung up as a pound of oranges.

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      I bought a potato yesterday that should have cost 79p but it only rang me up for 30p as the scale was broken. I’m a proper little criminal me.

      Nothing tastes better than ever so slightly erroneously discounted potatoes.

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      a pound of fish

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_miGclPFGs

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      I don’t see a problem with that

      • Sent from a country where oranges are like 1 dollar per kilo.

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