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11 minutes ago, offshoremanxman said:

Yea there’s been a few articles recently saying scanner sales have gone up a lot recently as people are counting the pennies and food prices are changing by the day and people don’t want to be embarrassed at the tills by having to put stuff back. 

Link to scanner sales? Otherwise I'm calling bollocks on this tenuous post... 

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4 hours ago, Asthehills said:

Yeah.  Much better to stand in the co-op in Crosby and have the worlds loudest self service till bellow “you payment has been declined” to the entire store.

That's a different sort of self-scanning. Fine for a few items but no use with a trolley. Still much better than having to stand in a queue behind people buying scratch cards. 

Totally different from going around the shop with a hand scanner and packing the shop as you go along. Which is very convenient

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9 hours ago, Passing Time said:

It would be interesting to find out just how much this costs the stores

£500 million a year according to this article from July.  The industry claims that people are using them to steal expensive items (lots of tips there for you, Gladys!) but I could help noticing that it ended:

A survey of 2,000 Brits, by Myfavouritevouchercodes.co.uk, found one in three admitted to pinching items using the self-service checkouts in 2022 alone.

The items most commonly stolen are toiletries and hygiene products, fresh produce and baby formula, it said.

Which suggests that if anything the amount is an underestimate and that it's not really just the expensive stuff that is going.

8 hours ago, Banker said:

Probably less than extra staff costs by having more tills open 

Except you need extra security and monitoring/assistance staff as well.  So the saving may be less than you think.  I suspect lack of staff may be one reason and possibly attracting customers who want a few items and to be quickly in and out.  

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