justoffal
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- Jun 29, 2013
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When I use the self checkout and an item for some reason fails to scan and then is placed in the receiving area....the whole thing shuts down because it detects the motion anyway. It then requires an attendant to come over and reset everything who will then look for the item that was not scanned and scan it in. I don't know I tend to think the self-checkout will decrease shoplifting. The electronic scanning is far more alert and consistent than any pair of human eyes. Random receipt checks at the door will also discourage people from trying to roll out with more items than they paid for.My first official paying job was as a cashier at a five and ten. Didn't have scanners, then--just sticky labels that had to be stuck somewhere on every blessed cheap piece of crap in the store. Sometimes I got relegated to the stockroom doing that, too.
So anyway, checkout games. Customers would try to sneak items through checkout by hiding them in other things. When I found a pair of earrings stuffed inside a skein of yarn, I was to politely ask with a smile, "Did you want to buy these, too?" They would stuff things inside boxes, in the folds of a dishtowel, rolled socks, and boy could they get a lot of lightweight stuff into a suitcase or purse.
Customers have this idea that if it gets past the checkout girl, it isn't stealing. That may be true, I don't know. We just got trained in sniffing it out.