It’s not shoplifting, its an employee discount.
It is 1866. Stores are making record profits while complaining.
It is 1940. Stores are making record profits while complaining.
It is 2026. You get the picture.1920s - Corporation Genius idea: “self service groceries” - put the product out so people have to fetch the items themselves. Less employees, record profit! But no fairsies, stop stealing!
2000s - Corporate Genius idea: “self service checkout” - People scan their own products that they went and got from the shelves. Less employees, record profit! But no fairsies, stop stealing!
Solution? Tax the employees more to pay for police to protect our record profits!
“Record profits” in nominal currency will be made year after year. Profit margins (on supermarkets in my country) remains low, and is lower than it was 10 years ago.
EDIT: if you don’t believe me, ask for evidence instead of just downvoting because you don’t like facts. Lemmy has a narrative about grocery profits that (at least in my country) is not supported by evidence.
i dont even steal from these, i just prefer less interaction and faster checkout 🤷
You are not faster than a cashier.
Yes, but the cashier has a line of people waiting, and the self checkouts don’t.
So I get a massive head start, and I still finish first.
obviously my self checkout experience is faster, or i would go to a cashier. we’ve been over this.
It’s faster as long as not everyone is doing self-chechout.
we’ve been over this.
Who?
everyone in the thread we’re in