What's going on Canada?
π Meta
πΊοΈ Provinces / Territories
ποΈ Cities / Local Communities
π Sports
Hockey
Football (NFL)
unknownFootball (CFL)
unknownBaseball
unknownBasketball
unknownSoccer
unknownπ» Universities
π΅ Finance / Shopping
π£οΈ Politics
π Social and Culture
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:
Customers who go through self-checkout must use the device to scan their receipt's barcode β confirming that they paid something β which opens a metal gate, letting them leave.
How can scanning a receipt prove that you scanned all the items, and are leaving with only what you paid for?
Also, how does this locking metal gate fall under the municipal fire code?
Customers who go through self-checkout must use the device to scan their receipt's barcode β confirming that they paid something β which opens a metal gate, letting them leave.
How is that supposed to help at all in stopping theft? "Oh, you paid for something, you definitely aren't leaving with anything you didn't pay for." I can't see a way "organized crime" could possibly work around that. /s
Am I the only one who is more annoyed by the lack of efficiency for the consumer. Integrate the checkouts into the exits if you want to do this.
"Organized retail crime across the entire industry is a serious issue, and has only gotten worse," said spokesperson Catherine Thomas. She did not provide data to back up the claim.
Put up or shut up. I hope Catherine Thomas steps on a Lego.
Also everyone should just keep doing what the old people do and go through the gates without scanning.
Simple answer is to stop using the self checkout. If loblaws is stupid enough to let people scan their own items, then what do they expect? Thatβs like calling the insurance company to report a stolen vehicle and saying you left the keys in, the engine running and the door open.
If people donβt want to scan a receipt then everyone should stop using self checkout.
Don't forget to tip your cashier 100% when they tell you too.
Don't forget to only use Loblaws credit cards because they told you too
Parking now costs $150 an hour
You must now rent your shopping cart from Loblaws and you pay based on the amount of total weight that was put inside. Your own children sitting into he cart will also affect the cost.
You must now mop and sweep after you go through an isle.
Don't fight it...just comply
Sounds more like poor self-checkout design.
All the stores I've been to with self-checkout require placing your just scanned item into the bag on a scale. If the weight change doesn't match what it expects, it locks up and requires a store employee to check and clear it.
Downside is, it has problems with very light items.
The only up side of self checkout in my area is that everyone is either too stupid or frightened to use it (still pretty new), so they still queue at the cashiers while the checkouts sit empty. I skip the queue, use the self checkout and leave the store in less than 5 minutes. Everyone always looks at me as if I'm some sort of wizard. It's even faster with app scanning.
I don't use it unless I have to but thats because its bs. friggin system needs to call in a person because I bought more than 6 2litter sodas. not to mention F these guys, give me a discount if I do it myself but no that is reserved for folks who accept the tracking app and cede their privacy to the almighty corp.
People leave grocery stores without buying anything all the time. The self-checkout area is usually the easiest way to leave because there's lots of empty space. I don't see what they can possibly accomplish with this.
I already hated shopping at Superstore. What they accomplished was turning me into a broken glass shopper.
My local zehrs setup those one-way gates that everyone just ignores. I've never stolen from them and yet I'm treated like a criminal.
Whats criminal is $9 for ground beef.
Whats criminal is $9 for ground beef.
With the amount of effort it takes to raise the cow, and the amount of environmental damage it does, beef only costing $9 per pound is almost criminal.
While true, I think the point here is that Loblaw collects a high margin irrespective of the beef's cost to make. But yes, the cost of meat has been historically absurdly low. Another example of the market not pricing in externalities.
Some larger stores in Germany have this. It's super annoying if you don't buy anything, and have to ask to be let out or wait until someone else leaves.
There is no way I would fucken do this.
The one in Woodstock was short lived, I hope it stays gone.
"Organized retail crime across the entire industry is a serious issue, and has only gotten worse," said spokesperson Catherine Thomas. She did not provide data to back up the claim.
Riiiight
"You can trust us to know this," she went on to say. "We're the criminals, after all!"
Yes this statement was quite frankly hilarious. I'm certain that the mafia has moved onto stealing bread for black-market redistribution. Or maybe they themselves can no longer afford to shop at Lowblaws.
You know times are tough when even the mafia isn't recession proof.
Is she talking about how Loblaws is essentially an organized crime outfit?
A few years ago I remember a solution to problems like this. The store would hire a person and that person would ensure all items a customer had in their cart were scanned. That person would then also help in processing the payment for those items. In exchange for this service the person would collect a wage from the store.
Brilliant! We could call it a... yob?
I'm thinking a rob, because it robs the poor poor shareholders of profits