To all the Supermarkets and big commercial stores that operate 'Self Check-outs'……. You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now. Yesterday I went shopping at one such store and the lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping everyone.
— Mr Commonsense (@fopminui) August 8, 2025
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Actually, major stores are getting rid of them because of rampant theft issues.
“them” = self checkouts or human cashiers?
Self checkouts…the subject of the commentary.
But rampant theft issues aren’t completely solved with human cashiers.
scan one place two in cart, scan two, place three in cart verse cashier scanning. then the thefts are the California shoppers with $899.00 worth of merchandise. and the lightweight shoplifters stuffing the steaks in their pants.
self-check being done away with in a number of stores as MrL says, rampant theft making a dent in their bottom lines.
Sam’s Club, part of membership, is signing an agreement to showing receipt at the door. I asked.
However, since I have not signed an agreement with any other store, I just shake my head no when they ask to see my receipt at the door. I tell them if they don’t like it, call security. Please.
That does represent a good form of peaceful political protest against this sort of action by corporations. We’ve already seen many places removing the self-checkout option in certain areas where ‘shrinkage’ (ahem, THEFT) impacted their margins too much. E.g. when the cashiers become cost-effective, they will (re)employ them. I’m not advocating shoplifting, but for those that can’t read between the lines, that’s what has reversed this course in some markets.
Corporations are un-feeling, they have no moral side you can appeal to. They’re strictly after profits. When the theft costs exceed HR costs, they’ll put cashiers back in. I have expressed my feelings to managers (politely of course), to let them know, I’ve sent eMails, filled out surveys on the back of my receipts… I doubt any of it matters. I shop at different stores now, in large part because of issues like this. Vote with your wallet! It DOES matter, and does have an impact. Support the business you like, do not support the ones you don’t. I won’t shop at the big-box stores, because I don’t want to support their profits. You can wave your receipt at them in protest, but you still bought your items and gave them a profit.
As the economy continues to tank and folks get more pressed by their budgets for needful things, self-checkouts will go the way of the dinosaurs. The shrinkage will really cut into the Banksters bottom line. And that is what it is all about. Shrinkage costs are passed on to the consumer. Stores that do not have this system will see more shoppers, due to lower prices.
At the Wal Mart in my A/O, there is one store employee, usually a feeble old person or a high-functioning Downs syndrome sympathy employee monitoring up to eight of these self-checkout stands. A two-person tag team of shoplifters could literally walk out with hundreds in merchandise. Sad.
wally world recently first time in my life, the single receipt checker was a Filipino woman with little english skill.
I agree with the points made in the article. However, the reasons I prefer to scan and bag my purchases are:
(1) because sometimes the computer registers a different price (usually higher) than the price on the front of the shelf. I can monitor what I’m being charged because I take my time scanning each item. [A checker doesn’t go slow.] This is much more time effective for me than cross-checking my receipt at home with the items I bought and having to return to the store for an adjustment.
(2) because I prefer to bag my cold items together and not over-pack a bag that could cause crushing of individual food bags and boxes.
checker scan is going to scan the same as the cashier’s station, same computer system and programming.
With the high cost of everything in the stores I’m surprised anybody is shopping anymore. Several Walmarts in my area lock up practically everything. When you press the button for someone to open up the case no one shows up. That’s when I leave and shop someplace else. Let’s say a store loses $1 from theft for every $100 in sales. Then they lock everything up and don’t provide people to unlock the cases. They lose most the sales for the locked products period. Kinda stupid right? I’d rather lose the $1. Back in my day there was something called customer service. Customer service today is non-existent.
Same thing goes for the self check out. They fire the cashier to put in self check and lose $10 in theft for every $100 in sales. I’d rather keep the cashier and the feeble old fart at the door checking receipts and only lose 50 cents in theft for every $100 in sales. Human eyes and a few good undercover security people are better than self check. If you want to go with self check every product needs a security tag that can only be deactivated by the scanner at the self check. Keep in mind you can’t stop theft or employee grazing in retail. You have to add a 1/2 percent to the price of all products. That’s just the cost of doing business.