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[–] Optimus_Subprime@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This also shows how fake prices are. They can handle their costs going up (paying more workers) without increasing prices because they know that people can't afford groceries right now.