There’s no extra gate or dedicated staff member in my store only whoever’s at the till and if the self-checkout is busy they’re too busy to watch them.
What I did notice though is that they now put anti-theft tags on more stuff, e.g. the ones on big packages of sausages are new. But it’s still the same open beep gate at the end, which I actually triggered exactly once and that was when using the manned checkout, they’re older and cashiers need to deactivate the tags manually (and they missed my coffee), the self-checkout ones apparently do it reliably when you’re scanning the item.
Over time I think that’s probably where this is heading. The store still uses those very old EM fuses/amplifiers as anti-theft tags and of course ordinary barcodes, at some point the larger industry is going to switch to RFID for everything and every item will know whether it’s been paid for.
My grocery store recently added these locks on the cart wheels, I’m not really sure how they work since i’ve only ran into them once so far but it went off as I was going through the detectors at the door and locked up the wheels so it wouldn’t roll. Idk what triggered it because I went through the manned checkout and they scanned everything. The girl at the self checkouts just ran over and unlocked it without even checking anything. It was pretty embarrassing though because it was busy and I was blocking the exit door with a bunch of people behind me for like 30 seconds because of that.
There’s no extra gate or dedicated staff member in my store only whoever’s at the till and if the self-checkout is busy they’re too busy to watch them.
What I did notice though is that they now put anti-theft tags on more stuff, e.g. the ones on big packages of sausages are new. But it’s still the same open beep gate at the end, which I actually triggered exactly once and that was when using the manned checkout, they’re older and cashiers need to deactivate the tags manually (and they missed my coffee), the self-checkout ones apparently do it reliably when you’re scanning the item.
Over time I think that’s probably where this is heading. The store still uses those very old EM fuses/amplifiers as anti-theft tags and of course ordinary barcodes, at some point the larger industry is going to switch to RFID for everything and every item will know whether it’s been paid for.
My grocery store recently added these locks on the cart wheels, I’m not really sure how they work since i’ve only ran into them once so far but it went off as I was going through the detectors at the door and locked up the wheels so it wouldn’t roll. Idk what triggered it because I went through the manned checkout and they scanned everything. The girl at the self checkouts just ran over and unlocked it without even checking anything. It was pretty embarrassing though because it was busy and I was blocking the exit door with a bunch of people behind me for like 30 seconds because of that.