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   Self-Scanning

   

   ray yelle, May 12th, 2003 @ 7:53am

   
   

   There was a recent story about how Kmart, who had piloted these last year, had reported that the stores using them experienced higher levels of shrink (industry parlance for shoplifting).
   
   Customers are going to fall into some ratio of honest-to-dishonest based on the nature of the business and the target demographics, and merchants who don't build in appropriately-tailored securtity steps are not going to realize the expected benefits.

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   Re: Self-Scanning

   

   Mike (profile), May 12th, 2003 @ 9:14am

   
   

   Yeah, I was actually wondering if the amount of shrink was normally less than the amount the store would save on extra checkout people (and the additional cost of the scanner). If so, I could see a company making the decision that it was "worthwhile".

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   Re: Self-Scanning

   

   msykes, May 12th, 2003 @ 10:35am

   
   

   I used one of these at Home Depot a couple of weeks ago. There was an employee sitting at a little "booth" in the midst of the self-checkout stands in order to help customers, but I'm sure he was also there to keep an eye on potential abuse of the system. It would seem like maintaining one real employee for every half dozen or so of the self checkout stands would help a lot.
   
   msykes

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   Re: Self-Scanning

   

   Anon, May 12th, 2003 @ 12:57pm

   
   

   I asked the lady, who was riding heard over a group of these units at a local store, if people try to scam the things. She said "It can't happen." !!??
   
   If that's the attitude you know it must be happening.

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 1st, 2007 @ 2:42pm

   
   

   I wonder why anybody would use these things - you pay the same amount of money and get less service, and the stores saves money at your expense. It's bad for labor, it kills jobs. I say stay away from them

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   Compliment

   

   ANGELA MARIE TAFT, Apr 27th, 2010 @ 7:23am

   
   

   Thank you for insatalling self scanners in my area.
   
   
   
   
   ANGELA MARIE TAFT
   89 SAINT PETERS DRIVE
   BRENTWOOD,NEW YORK 11717-1025

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   Never do this or else?

   

   MayLyn, Sep 26th, 2011 @ 8:08pm

   
   

   I'm not so happy about the self scanners comming to the stores in the future. This is a night mire! I love antique cash registers and I want to bring them back to todays world and I do not need to compete with the stupied hateful scanners just to get the National cash registers ringing KA CHING again! I miss the sales ringing, and the scanners are so anoying and confusing and I never know when my sale is done. I'm agenst self scanners and I want to BAN THEM FOR GOOD!
   Be ready world for antique cash registers to come back and ring the sales again KA CHING KA CHING!

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