Bonus #226 - Self Checkouts: Making Theft Convenient
Added 2024-05-21 16:00:10 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/syYjMquQ79M
Hey everyone, it's Bonus Dose Day! And you know, some times I like to think I have pretty normal opinions on things, but this is one of those weeks where I wonder "wait, am * I * the one who's wrong here? Have I become so old I hate modern tech for the sake of hating modern tech?" Am I alone in my dislike of self-checkout machines? Let me know either here or on YouTube. Anyway, on with the video!
Buckley looks at a story in which a woman stole $60,000 over the course of a year (and 120 visits) from a single Target store. Did stores do this to themselves? AND, does it even actually hurt them? Wait until you hear how much it would have cost to prevent her from stealing that much...
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I am going to problem be in the minority. A good self check out is helpful. If I am running in to grab one or two missing items, it’s faster then a cashier.
somerandomdude
2024-05-26 18:09:36 +0000 UTCAh yes, Dollar General, the franchise where you get robbed at gunpoint yet your manager asks why you didn't reopen the store with the cops having barely left. I've worked in retail but I definitely wouldn't work in US retail. Never mind worker comp and overtime, my constant fezr would be this: Do I get shot so I die instantly? Do I get shot, but I survive, with permanent damage? Or do I get shot and get fired while in the hospital? My sympathies to most American blue collar workers (I say most because people who feel to be a soon to have with pipe dreams of tax cuts can gtfo to the moon), they know the America that closely resembles my ancestral Eastern Europe, hostile customers, shitty pay, insufficient health care and no hope for retirement. i do disagree with Buckley on one thing. While Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was highly educated as was his fictional character, the actual Adam Worth upon whom Professor Moriarty was based on was but a lowly educated American criminal. Both with Worth and Graves we see the failure of an education system that clearly focused more on their external appearances and their personality traits instead of the brainpower they possessed and possess. Both with Worth and Graves criminal discovery took long because falling through the cracks the powers that be deemed them harmless, not a single person who could have done this, they had to work on somebody's behest, they couldn't have come up with this scheme. May it be class or race and gender, sometimes people on the side of the law are too complacent and people who're criminals should give seminars on how to catch them.
Powell to the people
2024-05-24 21:59:05 +0000 UTC
