• upsidedown@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Jfc how can conclusion be that the self chdckout was THE problem?

    Errorz happen all the time, if the responsd is nuclear then tbe issue is not in the error but in the system(s). Why the fuck call police over two items. Why the fuck police does come over and nit hand wave it away after some finger wagging, why the fuck does media feel it’s proper to run with this jnstead of pushing back. Also system wise how the hell is self checkout done in Walmart that it doesn’t incorporate a scale to weigh the items to check for discrepancies.

    The hell is all of this story, poor lady feel bad for her.

    • clifmo@programming.dev
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      6 hours ago

      Seems rather important to note the potential criminal liability one assumes when using self-checkout. You can be charged with crimes for a failure by the self-checkout system.

      • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Yup, my friend is a lawyer and he refuses to use self checkout for any reason: he doesn’t want to assume the liability.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      4 hours ago

      How is it the checkout’s fault?

      They claimed she didn’t scan those items, out of $176 worth of items. That made her subject to arrest and search, where more issues were discovered and racking up the charges.

      Then they discovered that she HAD scammed the initial items, but the CHECK OUT machine didn’t register them. Which means the search that found the other items was illegal, and they got the additional items wrong, too, exacerbating the legal incompetence.

      And it turns out to all be mistakes made entirely by Walmart, with absolutely no blame on her for ANY of it.

      As a result of that series of mistakes by Walmart, she lost the job she loved, and the career she built. Those are extremely serious damages, and it all goes back to Walmart’s pile of mistakes.

      Walmart ruined this woman’s life, and it’s going to cost them MILLIONS. They’ll pay, they don’t want to take a chance with jury with someone like me on it. I’d award her the entire company, and every Walton fortune.

    • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      People seem to be losing all semblance of a social contract. Need to enforce every minor thing via over the top legal force.