Re:How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
by Reason077 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:56PM
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Here in the UK, like the US, the self-checkout machines have built-in scales that weigh your produce and calculate the price automatically.
There's no extra tags involved, you just have to select what the produce is if it doesn't have a barcode.
There is indeed an opportunity to "cheat" by weighing something expensive but telling the machine it's something cheap like onions or potatoes.
But the machines can be monitored remotely from a security station, so there is a small chance you'd get caught. That keeps most people pretty honest.
I'm sure a few cheats do slip though, but the losses from this sort of thing are presumably much less than the savings from employing less checkout staff!
There's no extra tags involved, you just have to select what the produce is if it doesn't have a barcode.
There is indeed an opportunity to "cheat" by weighing something expensive but telling the machine it's something cheap like onions or potatoes.
But the machines can be monitored remotely from a security station, so there is a small chance you'd get caught. That keeps most people pretty honest.
I'm sure a few cheats do slip though, but the losses from this sort of thing are presumably much less than the savings from employing less checkout staff!