• Optimus_Subprime [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    Motherfuckers had to fuck-around that it costs more to have self-checkout than to have cashiers.

    Obviously, they aren’t going to pay their returning cashiers a living wage as evidenced by the following:

    But despite the shift back toward human cashiers, [Claire Tassin, a retail and e-commerce analyst at Morning Consult] doesn’t expect shoppers to have to pay more. “Retailers know consumers are pretty pressed for prices. So I don’t think this will make a massive, meaningful difference in consumer prices” at the moment, she said.