BorgDrone @ BorgDrone @lemmy.one

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Why would you be pro self checkout? Besides the extra time and effort for the customer to check out if they have more than a couple items

In what alternate reality does self-checkout take more time and effort?

• If you go to a cashier then you have to wait in line. At my local supermarket there is one cashier vs. 16 self-checkout machines. Even if you go at an extremely busy time there is almost always a self-checkout machine available.
• With self-checkout you simply scan the items from your basket and put them in your bag. With the cashier you have put all your items on the conveyor belt, wait for them to be scanned, then put them in your bag.
• If you have more than a few items you simply grab a hand-scanner or just use the app on your phone and scan the items as you put them in your cart. Then you just go to a self-checkout machine and pay. No unloading the cart at checkout, you just pay and take your cart to your car.

the problems and delays they cause where they have to provide employee assistance anyway ("Unexpected item in bag", etc)

What do you mean unexpected item in bag? The self checkout machine can’t look into my bag.

The article also talked about people getting in trouble for accidentally not getting something scanned.

Never seen that happen. You get random bag checks before you pay (so at that point it’s technically not theft). If you missed something, they simply re-scan all the items and you pay the correct amount, that’s all.

I mean, you have to explicitly give permission before apps can access the camera.

How can an app turn on the camera without your consent?

Swift

Who the hell illegally migrates to Myanmar?

Bacon. It’s super delicious.

Showing it’s unsustainable is kind of the point of the original game Monopoly is based on: The landlord’s game.

Meg, they are kinda disappointing. Even more tasteless than a normal big mac.

Two arrows makes more sense in the context of sharing

Why? Are you sending it to two people?

It suggests something (the content) being sent outside your device.

As an Android user why does an arrow out of a square signify sharing something?

It’s sending something outside of your device (the box).

As an iOS user the Android share icon makes no sense. How does that icon represent sharing? The iOS one is much clearer.

But they aren’t playing with their food. They’re playing with yours.

There are disappointingly few epic space battles in fantasy though.

Trump Watches are intended as collectible items for individual enjoyment only, not for investment purposes. The images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product.

So they are absolute trash.

That depends entirely on where you live. Cats are pretty much native animals here in Europe.

At least put a bell on them or something so they don't kill the wildlife.

Tell me you’ve never owned a cat without telling me you’ve never owned a cat.

You don’t even know where I live. What endangered songbirds? Also: very few cats are actually capable of catching birds. We mostly have jackdaws around here, and they are way too smart to get caught. They like to taunt the cats.

a menace to your local ecology.

That’s a funny way of saying ‘pest control’.

Nah. She’s this fluffy little murder machine. She needs to sow death and destruction on the local mouse population.

your cat does not need to hunt live animals to be happy and healthy.

It’s a predator, of course it needs to hunt to be happy.