Self-scan supermarket tills and the rows over their use

bbc.co.uk

4 pointsedward3 comments

I think the issue here is a lack of opportunities among older people for social interaction in society, not self-checkout itself.

Also, the woman who called the manager to open a till is a classic Karen.

they have put cameras on these that just display your face in the corner of the self-checkout machine. i don't understand it

Likely a bit of a scare tactic to stop consumers stealing or mis-categorizing items.

I read that some newer machines will have a downwards facing camera that will attempt to match up items like vegetables with what the customer enters them as, and will flag issues like a red capsicum being put through as bananas.

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