Here the checkout locks down and keeps repeating "unexpected item in the bagging area" and needs an employee to come and check and swipe their card to unlock. I assume the camera system works the same if the colour, shape or size of an item doesn't match
I'd actually forgotten about this until I saw the post, when I was about 12 or 13 I was on the bus home from the beach and about halfway a a few skaters got on with their girlfriends and I apparently was in a seat they wanted, they sat all around me and just started talking shit, I wasn't really bother and was giving it back to them, one of the fucker was picking at his crusty knee and managed to pull of a massive scab and he threw it at me like a firsbee and the fucking thing hit and stuck right to my cheek. I flicked it off and stupidly thought I'd get a fair fight so rushed the kid and they all jumped me, bus driver just kept on his route without a care in the world.. one of the girlfriends finally got them all off me and we continued a very awkward bus ride
This was my immediate thought too but now they have weighted checkout counters and cameras checking items, but it definitely would have been great in the early days when I used to scan everything up as unwashed potatos
Reddit is shit and not being able to opt out of being tracked is shit but honestly if you can choose to block gambling ads etc that's actually pretty good
I've been out of management for a while thank god but I did 11+ years as ops manager and every month we'd have a meeting to go over p&l reports which was full of budgets the owners set without any input, there was one item let just call wrap that we would use 300-700 rolls per month depending on how busy we were, they also wanted me to order minimum 1000 rolls at a time to hit discount break point. So this cost would only be on the report every 2 months right.. easy to understand yet every fucking 2 months they'd be like went over budget by almost 100%... I'm like yeah, how much did we spend last month.. oh fuck me it was zero, funny that. So after that they wanted one branch to do a single order each month for all 3 state branches, I'm like you're gonna spend more on freight for no actual saving and they're like don't worry it's in the budget.. wtf.
And that was just one line on the p&l out of hundreds, it was the same shit over and over again. Fucking labour costs in a 5 week pay cycle month was great too, like they just split the total labour budget by 12, allocated that to each month and called it a day.. and just kept doing it every fucking year and then 2 months every year they'd be scratching their head trying to workout why it's 15-20% over budget
But you can fuck on park benches so the vision isn't all bad