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A Boring Dystopia
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One more lie from reddit, for karma. Pathetic.
Yeah I saw that... The fuck it is not.
Jeeze people trying to argue that Europe is different from america I get but not pretending you get locked in grocery stores to do so.
I have seen scan gates after self checkout counters before. In Albert Heiijn shops in Amsterdam and in Lidl Shops in Zürich.
But Coop and Migros Shops don't have them in Switzerland. I think the 7/11 in Copenhagen also didn't but I'm not sure of my memory.
We have a scangate at my local edeka. But you could still just walk by the normal checkouts if you don't have anything
Ah yeah, of course. I thought that was the same in the location of the article, but maybe I misunderstood and that's the main issue.
After re-reading it I'm still confused by this paragraph:
Those gates are coming to switzerland too. Example: The food section of Coop-city Fribourg, and the Migros of the train-station in Fribourg.
I have to go to Uni Fribourg soon anyway, I'll try to swing by to have a look. Thanks for the hint!
Can confirm for the Migros
never in my life living in EU countries have I witnessed such bullshit
The only remarkable thing about this coming from the perspective of Sweden would be if there is no ungated exit, for example at the manned checkout. Having one-way gates at the entrance has been standard practice for as long as I've been alive, and basically ever since self-checkout became a thing, they have been receipt-gated.
You've always been able to exit by the manned checkout though as for obvious reasons you can't imprison people who visit your store
The one way gates are standard, the only exit being ticket scan isn't. The change is supposedly only the one way gates, so they're half truthing to pretend it's normal.