The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018)

Re:The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery... by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday July 28, 2019 @05:57AM (#20546704)

By "the cost savings have been passed on to the customer", do you mean that a) self-checkout has caused the customer to pay more for groceries, or that b) the cost of groceries has remained the same (or decreased), but now the store makes extra profits from it because they don't have to pay as many clerks?

If b) then we're back to where I started: you might as well complain about the discount on Swiss cheese. You don't pay more for youg goods, you may even pay less- but the store is making more money anyway.

I won't say "where is the harm in that" because there is certainly harm to the clerks- but that is a separate issue from the extreme stretching of reason to justify shoplifting in the passage I commented on.

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Re:The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery... by lozenge on Sunday July 28, 2019 @07:14PM (#20550352)

Neither a nor b.

Take the wholesale price of the product, add rent, delivery, payment processing, in store labour and all the other expenses involved in running a store, then add 1-2%. That gives you the price you pay in store. That formula hasn't changed since self checkout was introduced, but the cost figures have changed.

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Re:The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery... by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:50AM (#20553507)

I don't see how self-checkout does not come under "all the other expenses involved in running a store". Also, I dont' see how it comes under the 1-2%, which I assume is the profit that the store makes.

I still don't see how all this says that "the cost savings have been passed on to the customer", as per your previous comment.

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