I swear it trips at complete random. I'll just be scanning my groceries and then all of a sudden "HELP IS ON THE WAY" and I have to stop what I'm doing to get a clerk to put in the unlock code. It happens every fucking time.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It's great for shop lifting ironically because they give off so many false positives - they've been training their staff to ignore the warning and just click the button to ignore the warning.

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah the check out attendant is just going to hit ignore on the warning, none of them bother to check your bags because why should they, they get paid $11.25 an hour and their boss is a small business tyrant.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It's this. My mom used to work at a grocery store and sometimes she'd have to cover the self checks, the scales are very sensitive.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Thanks, this has been bugging me for a long time. Nice to finally know why it happens.

    • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The old ones were. The new ones seem fine.

      brb. looking up industry publications about this.