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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech(www.businessinsider.com)

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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech::When Walmart’s anti-theft self-checkout tech alerts an employee of a missed scan, it can cause some uncomfortable situations.

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So is CEO greed though. And they could choose to use that money to balance their budget, not ruin my experience of being out and about.

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Yes, they absolutely could and should. That wasn’t my point. I just don’t think it makes any sense to say that they made the change to their self checkout to “prove a point” about controlling people.

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