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Major store's CEO blasts self-checkout theft & warns of closures due to crime (www.the-sun.com)

submitted 1 year ago by VexCatalyst@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Jode@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

All of the local grocery stores in my area have been bought by Kroger, they have tossed most of the normal checkouts for self checkouts. This wouldn't be a problem but they only ever staff one "group" of checkouts with one gormless teenager regardless of how long the lines are. Meaning every time sombody has to get an ID checked for beer whatever dumb dumb is running the checkouts has to notice, put down their phone, and then shuffle over to you to just hammer 9/9/99 into the age prompt. I walk out of the store now if the lines are long and go somwhere else. Fuck them.