'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology
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i only check myself out whenever i shoplift

You mean selecting the non-organic item but you actually have organic one? Would be an "honest" mistake.

What's weird is how many refuse to let you just enter the code on the sticker. You have to search through their stupid menu to find it, and it may not be what you actually have

Thinking of those two clowns at the hardware store, clearly following me around, very unsubtly acting like they were sure i was there to shoplift. They kept asking what i was looking (which was actually non specific christmas gifts) so I started throwing out meth ingredients, phosphorous, ammonia, neo citran daytime, sodium hydroxide, caustic soda, lye....I know that went right over their heads because they found me a gallon of pure crystal form dry lye. Anyways, she bagged half the stuff up without ringing it through. I'm sure i started a rumour in town, when they told their husbands bout the big biker looking dude asking for obscure chemicals. Took the lye though, that's stuffs hard to find these days.