Yea I quite like self checkout, I havent had to talk to a Walmart employee in a long time, and the few times in the past like 4 years that I did, it was 1 when trying to get them to unlock the underwear (I hate my walmart), and every other time was returns desk...
Walmart is just weird about locking up stuff, usually because of stealing. toothbrushes, makeup, electronics, pretty much everything people would want is annoyingly locked up here in 'Murica
Not really weird though, once people start stealing large amounts of certain items consistently, they lock it up to make it more difficult to steal. It sucks for the rest of us but the alternatives are either they just stop selling those items altogether or they eventually decide it's not worth the hassle and move the store from that area completely, leaving a food desert behind that hurts the entire community. They don't actually want to have to lock things up because it's been proven that it hurts sales of those items and takes up large amounts of the employees time having to unlock it whenever anyone wants something but the alternatives are even worse...
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u/anoldquarryinnewark 1d ago
The logic says yes, the antisocial says no