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Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fuck the fucking idiots who ruined this

[โ€“] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Our species, at all times, consists of some probably relatively consistent percentage of what you'd probably call idiots.

I would say that if some social experiment like this is tried, and it fails because too great a percentage of people are "idiots", it's really the thing they're trying that isn't suitable for us. It seems a little upside down to blame the people something is made for being the ones poorly suited to it.