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Inside: Understaffing as a form of enshittification; and more!
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Zanne@pluralistic omg.. I went to CVS this past weekend and the cashier was running two screens where the customer had to look up their account to get their medicine. The touch screen was horrible so it took a lot of effort to use. The cashier was taking over half the time. It was completely inefficient and made us all cranky. This was in my local target which has become completely useless. Who is running these companies? #enshittification 10000%
BandersnatchI refuse to use self-checkout for any reason & have literally left a full cart at the front of the store when no other options are available.
Waste my time & I will waste even more of your money.
Diabetic Heihachi@Bandersnatch @zannesan @pluralistic
I just steal things when I have to self checkout.
I found out the staff login to the machines at my one local grocer is 4444 so I help myself to discounts, or If an item requires a count to be entered that means the scale is not sensitive to pick up the items weight properly, so yes, I only purchased three dried fruit strips, not 50. Oh and those are chocolate covered raisins from the bulk section, not organic chocolate covered almonds...
Matilda@DavBot @Bandersnatch @zannesan @pluralistic our local supermarket chain closed the self checkouts because of stealing.
Which was a total pain.
But each to their own
@junklight @DavBot @Bandersnatch @pluralistic
Half the store is locked up because of stealing.. they are simply pushing people online. Why don't they just close the stores? Half the parking spots are taken up as order online spots anyway and yet I hardly see anyone parking in these spots. Total waste. It's like moronic AI is already running the store from afar..