this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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Back in the day, there would be a long counter in shops with a clerk in a brown apron behind it. You had to ask him for the goods you wanted. This made shoplifting very hard. If they are pissing themselves over a stolen candy bar they would have to go back to this model.
But there is a reason they stopped doing it that way. Self-service shops might experience more loss but the saved labour costs and increased sales makes up for that many times over.
These wankers want to have their cake and eat it to. They want all the earnings from self-service with none of the downsides.
except you cant have self service with no employee intervention when the employee has to put the item INTO the lockbox and then help the customer take it back OUT later, super convenient and time saving, capitalists stay winning (in this case, the monorail salesman who sold them these chocolate bar carrying bags)