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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)

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[–] Fapper_McFapper@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 months ago

… but a lot of older people really struggle with them, so they're widely hated by boomers that want things to be like the 80's again.

In my experience it’s not that older people are struggling with it. It’s that Walmart has 300 self checkout kiosks but only two are open and the line for a regular register is almost out of the premises.

And the CVS self checkout always ends up confusing itself and constantly yelling at you to place the item in the bagging area.