New California bill could force stores to close self-checkout
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2024
- California lawmakers are considering a new bill that could force stores to close self-checkout lanes. Ian Cull reports.
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Why can’t they just hold the criminals accountable. California can’t get anything right.
TBH we'd literally have to double the number of prison cells. People are insane
Sadly, there aren't any real consequences for crimes of nearly ANY kind--not even heinous ones. California law states that theft is “grand theft” when "the money, labor, or real or personal property taken is of a value exceeding $950". But grand theft is a bit interesting in Cali; a prosecutor COULD charge the offense as either a misdemeanor or a felony. But typically, they end up as misdemeanors. And the point is, as long as you rip off values less than $950, you're basically golden. Very little (if anything) will happen. Repeat offenses do not "stack", either. A person could commit an ENDLESS amount of crimes, and the possible punishments would remain weak, unchanged, and essentially NBD nothing-burgers. ;)
Therefore, until or unless CA laws (and NATIONWIDE LAWS) end up completely revamped into some kind of "three strikes and you get incinerated" kind of system... ummm... yeah. Good luck preventing crim-crimz from crimmin' it up! #LMAO!!! It pays to rip off ~$500-900 every few days. It adds up! And even if ya get caught after 20-30 scores... well, you're already fairly wealthy, so whadda YOU care?! LOLOL
Real question is , why does anyone support people calling themselves government?
The world doesnt need excessive waste and the wasting of resources. We should 100 percent ban self check out and touchscreens ordering!!!!!
Exactly. No consequences and not holding them accountable isn’t working! Crimes repeat and we all absorb the loss.
Why it is governments business to regulate those things, let the store decide
Because California
government is just people calling themselves government and they should not be supported in any way.
Because democrats
Exactly. What makes the government think it knows better about the economics of self-checkout than the business owner? The only argument for government intervention might be the increased burden on law enforcement due to increased crime, but that is a stretch.
closing self-checkout lanes reduces retail theft sounds like a bullshit
Theres actually alot of money lost due to self check out
The world doesnt need excessive waste and the wasting of resources. We should 100 percent ban self check out and touchscreens ordering!!!!!
@@scalelabs Probably due to stealing, not self checkout. Regardless, government and their fake money is trash and should not be supported in any way.
Because politicians are BS.
Of course, abolishing self-checkout will reduce theft,
Most people stealing from retail stores have no intention of paying for their items anyway. Why should the other self-checkout customers have to suffer long lines while waiting for a cashier?
Cuz ur in california keep voting blue
If you support clowns calling themselves government and harassing all of us that don't support government, the least you should have to do, is wait on long lines.
Let's check the 80's and 90's and early 2000's when the idea of self-checkout wasn't even happening. Maybe there were less thefts, and .............the self-checkouts are really a barely new thing happening for the past 15 years or less.
I don't remember the lines being as horrible, in fact, they are kind of the same till now.
The headline is clickbait. The bill would not close self-checkout lanes.
They are ready to do anything and everything except punish criminals.
It's not the stores' issue, it's the way the criminals are being let go after getting caught. If you keep catching them and letting them go the next day, no amount of store configuration can stop them from simply shoplifting unless you start building the store like a jail cell.
Make stealing illegal again
make clowns calling themselves government, just clowns again.
You a MAGA shopper? 😂
People are grabbing items and walking out. What does this have to do with self checkout??
Nothing really. They're pretending to do something that will only hurt businesses. So much for a free market.
Nothing. Just a government that can’t operate itself. Telling functional businesses how to operate. I think this is hubris.
EXACTLY. It's like... let's walk this through, OK? :) Let's pretend I'm a thief--you know, a shoplifter. I'm in the store. I grab some items--presumably ones I'd like to steal. So... now... ummm... I GO TO THE SELF-CHECKOUT?!? What?! Like... are you crazy? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If I'm going to steal something, I would simply GANK IT AND LEAVE. I'm not going to be stopping, waiting in line, flashing my CC into some machine and bloody well TIME STAMPING what I'm up to! How would that make any sense? A six year-old could figure this out.
Man. :/ Seriously... it's like: bring back CRITICAL THINKING. Why. WHY can't these so-called lawmakers use their synapses; their grey matter? Too heavy? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
It's much harder to notice when the shoplifter pretends to self-checkout. However, the headline is clickbait. The bill would not close self-checkout lanes.
@@buck9668 what would the bill do then? Please explain. Thanks. Oh and also explain why government is allowed to tell a private business how they need to operate? Thanks
Why not let the stores decide themselves? Why does government have to intervene with something like this??
The key to that report was 2 stations per employee. They are trying to get stores to hire more employees.
If you support people calling themselves government, being your slave master, you are just a slave and are not allowed any say in anything.
Because Demoncrats
It’s an employment issue.
Saw a customer at Walmart going straight to the exit door full of groceries. It doesn’t matter self checkout or not. Prop 47 need to be repeal and DA need to prosecute otherwise it will continue.
Stop supporting bozos calling themselves government maybe.
This 💯! But dems won't admit their bad ideas. Once again these are dems coming up with another dumb idea to try to band aid their first bad idea.
If closing self-checkout lanes reduces retail theft, then why wouldn't retailers close these lanes on their own ? This is a weird and unnecessary bill that will actually punish good citizens by making them stay in these long annoying lines, and it's only intended to force retailers to hire more workers for the sake of jobs. I love self-checkout lanes because i like to bag my own groceries in the order that I like, and not mix raw foods with other items.
Exactly! If the economics demand it, retailers will do this on their own. No need for yet another thing to be stupidly regulated
The headline is clickbait. The bill would not close self-checkout lanes.
@@buck9668 if you believe that is not what happens in effect, then you're being fooled by the politicians. With those requirements, some stores will certainly choose to remove self checkout convenience
@@thesadboxman I'm sure some stores would choose to remove self checkout. But, to me, that's different fom a law that FORCES self-checkout lanes to close.
@@buck9668 They'd be idiots to force closure explicitly. Politics works best through indirection. Either way, watch how it punishes law abiding consumers and businesses while letting criminals go unpunished.
Punishing the people/good customers again instead of fixing the issue. Where have i heard this from?
clowns calling themselves government and their slave supporters
Because self-checkout is a problem
Blm
Or ya know, punishing thieves after they've been caught might help a little.
People own themselves, that's all. Get over the government brainwashing.
I like self checkout. Maybe pass a bill with harsh penalties for retail theft? Mandate security? With fewer cashiers you can afford a security guard sitting at the exit? Just another example of our government failing society....
we own ourselves only. You think you should put someone in a cage for eating food that is impossible for anyone to own until consumed? If you are the only one that can afford to eat, should everyone else just die?
They better increase cashiers on all retail + Grocery stores because those lines about to be back to back like a freeway in LA
sure and grocery prices will go up because of it. Thanks to government supporters, we will all be standing in soup lines soon.
Stores will probably start requiring a refundable deposit when entering a store if you don't actively do something about theft
First thing to do is to realize that we own ourselves, only. Government is trash and does not deserve any support, of any kind.
It just means you have to wait longer in the fucking line...
Just goes to show that the “supporters” don’t know what the Hell they’re talking about. Thieves will continue to steal with impunity until they are arrested and held accountable. It’s more than reasonable for one attendant to man 4 or more stations. I’ve been a retail Director for over two decades. These so called advocates need to stay in their lane. Especially when they have no experience in the matter.
Only good slaves support ownership of anything but yourself. Any of the giant corporations, selling nothing but trash, do not deserver any type of support, from anyone, usa incorporated as well.
Haha. Their minimum wage law backfired, and this is their backlash
Only zombies support gov.
Another dumb idea from someone who wants a promotion at work….
The customer service is better at self-checkout. I gave myself a survey and that is how I answered. 😆
Also, the government has no authority to regulate such a thing. The government also has no authority to mandate differnet minimum wages for differenet types of industries. It violates the "equal protection under the law" clause of the Constitution.
Making a proposal like this is so pathetic. In countries in Europe I can go through self checkout with wine or beer no problem. But not in nanny state America! The real problem here is the weak laws, soft DAs, and the retailers themselves that refuse to hire security and/or prevent their loss prevention staff from doing anything and also low staffing at the checkouts to begin with. If people are walking out with stuff and no one’s noticing, how is that something that needs to be legislated??? How about we charge retailers for investigating their theft issues in the first place?
All true.
I can remember years back........maybe 15-20 years ago.........when Walmart had local police officers working every store.
Hard to believe they can't afford to do it now.
They're just being cheap.
Government supporters are the problem.
They will do everything but hold criminals accountable.. 🙄🤮
How about make things more affordable?
How about we send more money to ukraine and israel
A lot of nothing is done. I swear they make useless laws. They just need to put these people in jail and serve at least 5 years. These people will run off with the good wether there is self check out or not.
Why cant they make laws that prevent rate hike by pg&e instead.. Even rent control exist so why should pg&e trying to profit during slow economy. They don't make sense. This new ceo is greedy or have no control
Having more workers on checkout lanes, won't increase jobs for workers. Wow they have no argument
I don't know, what if they just, prosecute the criminals? Ever think of that?
Gov. Newsance should dictate how ALL businesses have to be run in California. Why just retail? I mean, with rampant software pirating, surely requiring a minimum number of programmers working at a company will stop it. What about fast food? With all the screw ups the $20/hr employees do, surely requiring franchisees to hire twice as many workers will cut down on screw ups? Insurance companies selling car policies should be required to double up on employees to cut down on insurance fraud. Worker safety of course is the reason...
your gov., like all gov. is gross and trashy, why in the world would you support it?
Self checkout has been around for a long time. Let me guess who's behind this bill - unions?
why regulate the self checkout to prevent theft? If the theft at self check out is too high, the store should be able to figure it out themselves.
Why support gov and why then ask why regulate? All gov wants to do is regulate you till and to death. How are gov supporters so far gone
California got a law for almost everything now.
Stores would not have self-checkout if it was not profitable for them. Lawmakers should focus on enforcing existing laws instead of doing things that will make shopping more expensive.
Yelp stores love self check outs. It's free labor, and they save paying any benefits. No time off for vacation. Stores love you and your free labor. They don't even have to give you a discount for doing their work. Next stores will want you to stock their shelves and have you pay them for that privilege.
Most thieves don’t bother pretending to ring items up. They grab a couple items and stuff them in their clothes/bags, or they fill up a cart and push it out the door. They need to stop allowing up to $990 of theft and stop prosecuting or firing employees for defending their store, and in general you should lose your claim to rights when in the act of committing crime. Why can you break into my house and then sue me for cutting your hand on the glass when you broke it and yet I have no rights.
Who’s creating these stupid bills?
Communist leftists ....of course
Seems government just wants to micromanage everything. Let the companies decide how they want to run their business
Crinimals are not going to go through self checkout only the normal customers will go by the law.
All because of the Basketball Engineers from Wakanda.
Yeah you should mind your business highest food prices are in California and across the country is outrageous
Stupid idea! Self checkout is the most efficient step of my shopping experience. We already have to wait for employees to open up lock-up items of minimal values, we don't need more things that slows our shopping experience like slow cashiers.
you use fake money, ownership of stuff other than yourself is pretend.
There just needs to be a store cage at the exits that would lock a customer inside when items are detected to be stolen, the customer couldn’t leave until security came to check their cart or clothing.. Also, the store needs scanners that can automatically scan all items in a cart at once and to automatically charge the customer within seconds. That way nobody would need to scan each item individually.
You already can't but alcohol at self checkouts.
Is it a free market or not? Retailers should have the right to decide for themselves.
I like self-checkout
Luckys is still around?
Why would the store need the states or the cities help on solving this issue
Politicians - how about you all fix the darn daylight savings time change that most of us are annoyed with for the last 5 decades!!!
Because they want everyone as dumb as possible, if you still support government at this point, you are just about there.
This is a terrible idea. Its aim is to increase need for employees. Safeway and whole
Foods self checkout is great
it's aim is not that, that would almost be decent, if these (money related), jobs weren't a complete joke. Your government is complete trash and never wants decency. Maybe in another 100 years you and your fellow government/freemason supporters will get a clue.
Raising prices again. Thanks Sacramento for making life even harder.
Only in communist CA, you don’t get to checkout yourself
What about communist oregon and new jersey lol
Imagine slaves arguing over whos plantation is best. Classic.
Why do customers check out instead?
A novel idea here… Enforce the law prevents future crimes
Let's start suing the Senate bill righters and Senate now.
Rather than fix the problem democrats created California punishes retailers 😮. Thanks Gruesome Newsom.
Retail stores shouldn’t worry about people stealing they give away the food anyways before it expires
You're joking right?
@@middleguy1776 Gov supporters are joking, actually no way to support gov and not be joking.
It's amazing just how dense and illogical certain people with power, coin, and influence can be. I definitely think that self-checkout systems are pretty prone to permitting theft, but if people think *THAT* is the primary issue, they're bloody well out of their minds. :/
bill won't do shit, Lol
Tax empty apartments after 90 days on market
They're already taxed. It's called property tax. Telling someone what they need to do with their private property is communism. Take that to Venezuela or China.
Can we also add a no-checkout lane for thieves? They can just walk thru and don't hold up the other lanes.
we own ourselves, only.
Let's check the 80's and 90's and early 2000's when the idea of self-checkout wasn't even happening. Maybe there were less thefts, and .............the self-checkouts are really a barely new thing happening for the past 15 years or less.
I don't remember the lines being as horrible, in fact, they are kind of the same till now.
Pay me $26 an hour just watching 2 machines at self checkout 🤣🤣 side hustle
Here's a crazy idea. Prosecute all thefts to the full extent of the laws already on the books. No need for more useless laws that only drive up the costs for businesses and customers.
Stores should just require membership like gyms and you gotta check-in. Link to ID and payment.
Show us stats that prove thieves use self checkouts to steal. They just fill the carts and walk off via the exits.
has gavin newsom been notified?
I hate California and I've lived here my whole life.
I can think of a 47 reasons why this doesn't make sense
Why dont the have customer sign up with a store card and they have to scan it before self check out...they can charge the customer for the missing items because it will be under their name.
Or
Borrow laws from other countries...caught stealing..cut off their hand 🤚🏼
Jesús glad I left California
Why does this require a law. Target can figure this out. Let's enforce law on thieves. Dumb dumb dumb.
This is a ridiculous idea. Try punishing the criminals, not the victim. That’s what they’re doing here. Government overreach at its finest.
Weird thumbnail. I thought someone had gotten proposed to at a self-checkout.🙃
😂 ain't no way that's gonna stop organized crime or r
I love self checkout! It’s necessary. 😊
I don’t know about this. If you force the big stores to take on more cashiers and they feel a financial crunch to do so then it will result in some layoffs.
and prices going up etc., the endless cycle and yet I'm still surrounded by zombies that support gov.
So longer lines great they cant even staff enough people through regular checkout this is the worst idea especially when you have dashers and everyone and there grandmothers ttrying to checkout the lines are going to be ridiculous its already difficult enough to get laundry detergent now all the employees will be at the registers?
Sounds like a way to force stores to hire more people (ie fight the effects of automation)
say no to government and it's supporters, that's all
Lock the liquor into locked cabinets and put it behind a counter with a security camera and security guard and cashier for that department is the actual real federal and state order right now.
California doesn't have any rights over businesses.
0:56 Bruh, you is dead wrong Brah!
HATE self checkout. The machines are always choking, so you've got to wait around for an employee anyway. Some of the grocery stores now think they need have only one REAL checkout line open. And I'm not paid to ring up groceries or bag them, so where's my discount for doing those jobs? Thank goodness for Trader Joe's, which never adopted this nonsense and has human cashiers working EVERY register.
Bull and the employees are told not to stop people from stealing
It's not stealing anyways. People own themselves, that's all.
Good they should limit employees to get an opportunity. some store managers hate to become cashiers or do combo task from bagging and use the cashier. I have this issue. That I don’t have an opportunity to work as cashier.
All of these giant corporations and your government (also a corporation), are a complete joke.
Just encouraging more online shopping you're going to kill the in-store experience. I almost exclusively shop online now because they started implementing some of this stuff over in my state in the Midwest. I'm not having my time and money disrespected.
Retail theft is not the big deal that they are making it out to be. Regardless these companies can afford it. People who stand up for companies are tools to capitalism and they do not care about humanity. I will never be on the side of companies and I will always be on the side of the consumer. Those CEOs and board members don't need their fifth houses they don't need their third yachts.
N how dat gonna help me , de shopping 🛍
More Government and stupid Laws... I can't wait they always gets it right 🙄🤡 so frustrating there is right and wrong start holding people accountable.
Don’t create stupid laws on self checkout.
Pos store managers wanna have one register open and have lines 10 people deep.
And that is why we can no longer have nice things.
because freemasons/government and their supporters
This is really eye-opening to me it’s not that they want to get rid of the self check out to employ more people and make sure that these robots don’t take over The jobs but they’re worried about theft. 👀
Oh yeah cause walking right out the door is definitely not happening…
What a stupid state 👉🤡💨
My plantation is better than yours
Let me guess. Another law that’s going to make California more expensive. Yippy…
We should side with people over ai and robot stuff
California going hills
California is so backwards bro
Takes people jobs away & customer service Self check out!
The world doesnt need excessive waste and the wasting of resources. We should 100 percent ban self check out and touchscreens ordering!!!!!
ban governments/freemasons, if you don't like 'wasting resources'
California has no such rights.
I think they should get rid of all checkout lanes. If they gave me discount I may use it, but instead Im doing more work to checkout without any benefit while Safeway saves money by not hiring the proper amount of cashiers.
YEAP
this is so trash
California is doomed lol. I get a kick out of y'all goofies
Here's a novel idea: Be tough on crime? No? You looney libs.
Yes, toothpaste and frozen burrito lock-on chains not enough make my experience better