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A roach has a theory about self-checkout. One I can attest to. One I think is the future of all these 'smart' technological upgrades: they're shit and only make things easier for scammers and thieves. (archive.ph)
posted 3 years ago by GeneralBoobs 3 years ago by GeneralBoobs +18 / -0
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– RaceCreatesCulture 26 points 3 years ago +26 / -0

Self-Checkouts likely would work in 95%+ white pop areas but the higher the black pop, the worse your outcome with them will be.

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– ghostfox1_ 20 points 3 years ago +20 / -0

Could it be because blacks are generally low iq retards who don't understand anything and commit tons of crime?

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– Grant_us_eyes 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

Yes.

I like to play the game called 'spot the major local demographic' based off how grocery stores are structured.

The same exact chain can have radically different appearance and structure depending on who they're selling stuff too.

Near a ghetto? Not really different than your typical grocery store, complete with all the liquor kept 'locked up'(IE, behind the service counter.) Good neighborhood with a decidedly white majority? Like an open-air market/buffet(except indoors) with a massive alcohol section with all the good stuff on easy access and display.

Try it some time.

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– FuckGenderPolitics 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0

Over the last couple years the grocery stores in my area installed those gates that won't allow you to leave the store without setting off an alarm so people have to leave through the checkout areas. That coincided with the explosion of the nonwhite population, which I'm sure had nothing to do with it. /s

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– ghostfox1_ 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

To be clear, my post was entirely sarcastic.

Any area where black people become more than a single percent of the population becomes shit very quickly. The higher it goes the worse it is.

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– NotMacgyver 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

The grocery store where I live has 0 security (beyond probably having break in alarms)

There is nothing locked away, there isn't a machine at the exit that beeps of you steal, no guns behind the counter, some of their stuff is outside and could be stolen if you're just sneaky enough.

I'm not even sure if they have surveillance and yet I've never heard of them having been stolen from.

There have been times when people ask to come around later to pay for stuff they pick-up, usually when change isn't available.

I'll let you guess the local demographic based solely on that.

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– 0000Titan 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

I think a bigger problem than low IQ is that our culture actively inculcates in these people the idea that they are victims without full access to society and therefore are entitled to break the law and vote for handouts that reinforce that degenerate attitude through the generations.

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– ghostfox1_ 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

That's why I'm for actual consequences, up to and including getting beaten to death. If that's the only way they learn, then so be it. Fuck around and find out.

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– Ender910 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I might be in support of branding thieves, maybe with barcodes that automatically alert security the moment they enter a store.

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– Kaarous 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

If it has anything to do with American culture and victim hood, then why is Africa such a violent, crime ridden shit hole? They can't even keep radio towers running without being stripped out and sold by the locals within days. They're actually worse than Afghanis and that's saying something.

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– 0000Titan 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Because the population assets required to build and run a competent nation are much higher than the assets required to assimilate into a nation.

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– deleted 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0
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– JustHereForTheSalmon 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Hell, even regular shops don't work in these "5%" areas, as evidenced by bulletproof glass separating the customers from the workers.

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– ShadistIsACuck 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I was able to notice something similar in my country when using shopping carts. Same grocery chains would have them all constantly unlocked in the country but require money in the city. I wonder what the demographic difference is 🤔

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– ProdigalPlaneswalker 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

spoiler: scammers and thieves existed before self checkout and will exist after.

If retailers get rid of self checkout, it's because the added costs of maintenance and oversight exceeded their expectations.

Sometimes the customer using it is a retard and sometimes the interface is confusing or unintuitive.

I'd rather use a self checkout than deal with a masked sales clerk.

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– Steampunk_Moustache 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

I don't use self-checkouts and I pay in cash every single time. I don't carry a phone or ID.

There is no convenience that is worth not only the constant surveillance, but the risk of losing every penny I have to identity theft.

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– deleted 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0
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– Steampunk_Moustache 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

They do, but they don't really handle it any faster than a human, in my experience.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

I use self checkout because then I can get stuff quickly. It stops my wife from lollygagging and buying stuff we don't need as well.

To be honest, the amount of theft would have to be higher than the maintenance and workers cost. I don't really see that.

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– 0000Titan 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah. This article is pretty stupid and light on any real argument. It puts the total retail shrinkage loss at under $100B (including non-self checkout related theft) which doesn't seem close to causing an increase in hiring. That's especially true when the level of theft is obviously extremely dependent on the local population. Then it quotes a single attorney who admits he "hates" self checkouts and he's talking about how actually the anti-theft mechanisms for self checkout are too powerful and falsely accuse people of theft.

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– SouthsideSeneca 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

I get the "you have to wait for an employee to check before you can cash out" prompt pretty well every other time I use self-checkout. The camera sees something that it flags as scam or un-scanned and I have to stand there and "wait for assistance".

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– SoctaticMethod1 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

In societies that value law and order and social cohesion (so not mass accepting a lot of third world rejects), things like self checkouts and the like will stay as they can be more time efficient, cost saving.

Anywhere else, no so we all know the obvious solution here, copy Japan's policy

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– Assassin47 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

What is Japan's policy?

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– SoctaticMethod1 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

HEAVILY restricting immigration so to keep the undesirables out

And it worked, Japan still feels like Japan, not a prelude to judge dredd megacities like in the West

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– Imthrowing4 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Well, they're letting in Ameriniggers, so the place will go to shit eventually.

Dumbfucks need to learn to keep blacks out.

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– Assassin47 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Oh, gotcha. I agree but I don't think they go far enough. Need to start expelling current foreign residents.

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– Lurker404 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Around here these luckily aren't common. I've only seen them in one hardware store.

Not sure why they even have them because they still need the same amount of employees. They used to have two registers with one employee each. Now they have 4 self-checkouts with the same two employees watching over them.

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– GeneralBoobs [S] 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Redundancies of resources at management levels.

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– GeneralBoobs [S] 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Some of it will stick around, but a lot of the technological gimmicks we're currently experiencing, including this so-called 'AIs' will be gone or reduced to background noise. They're just shit fads, the technology is not viable.

For example with the self-checkout: All of Amazon's markets, where they had no cashiers but self-checkouts, are now closed.

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– JustHereForTheSalmon 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

The real push is going to be those "grab and walk out" stores, powered by RFID. Instead of a Loss Prevension goon harassing you (they'll let blacks walk because they don't want to be stabbed), they'll just charge you and you can argue about their mistake on a phone call to India who doesn't give a shit and won't do anything to reverse any charge.

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– GeneralBoobs [S] 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

That was Amazon's business model. They are now gone.

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– deleted 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0
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– SouthsideSeneca 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

I often stand there wondering what answer I would get if I asked them to imagine how they would feel if they hadn't have had breakfast this morning....

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– DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

*hadn't have

Your text-to-speech program isn't working, you might want to bug-check it.

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– SouthsideSeneca 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Nah, just my hilly-billy upbringing leaking through. That's what I get for trying to speak above my station.

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– realerfunction 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

i no longer use self-checkouts because i don't work for the store.

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