• flandish@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    where is this that you are made to stop? I just keep walking and say ‘if you wanted to see my receipt then open another cashier lane and scan items yourself. It’s my property now.”

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      8 days ago

      Pretty common in german supermarkets in my experience, at least those that only introduced self-checkout recently (so most of who even got one). The gates need to scan the barcode on your receipt. Not really a noteworthy timeloss in my experience though.

      It’s still a very uncommon thing in general, my local supermarket even got rid of automated coin counters on normal checkouts again because they worked so bad (refused even slightly dirty coins) and made things slower.

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        8 days ago

        ahh ok. in the US there are some private membership stores that do that. the public ones can try to stop you but you do not need to obey.

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      8 days ago

      That’s a lot of words to say while not breaking stride. I just hand them my reciept and thank them for taking my garbage.