re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter

Wonder how much money stores lose due to customers deliberately not scanning all their items.

Well, considering that, for most models of self-checker, the scales in the “bagging area” seem to be calibrated to weigh items down to the molecular level, probably not much. Though I guess potential rippers-off can just revert to the classic manual backup method; i.e. just pocket stuff…

I’m definitely of two minds about self-checkout machine: on one hand, they’re handy for quickly buying a few items: OTOH, if there is anything else you have do (check coupons, do a delivery, etc.) - you still need to interact with a human. Who is usually needed to stand by to deal with problems with the self-checkers, anyway (at least at my local CVS: their machines have more bugs than Steve Bannon’s underwear)