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Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)
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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I heard about strategies to print your own barcodes and stick them on merch to get a "discount". And that was intended to fool cashiers.

Imagine if I don't have to think about a cashier doing this transaction. $2 steaks for everyone!

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You’d need to figure out a similarly weighted item. The majority have a lookup table of “this barcode is this weigh range” which prevents scanning a single almond and putting a TV down.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Interesting. I did not know that.