New California bill could force stores to close self-checkout 

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.

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.

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.

There is always a reason and I bet it has to do with tax dollars and profiting

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,

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.

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

make clowns calling themselves government, just clowns again.

You a MAGA shopper? 😂

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

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?

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.

clowns calling themselves government and their slave supporters

Because self-checkout is a problem

Blm

People own themselves, that's all. Get over the government brainwashing.

Only zombies support gov.

First thing to do is to realize that we own ourselves, only. Government is trash and does not deserve any support, of any kind.

sure and grocery prices will go up because of it. Thanks to government supporters, we will all be standing in soup lines soon.

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.

your gov., like all gov. is gross and trashy, why in the world would you support it?

How about we send more money to ukraine and israel

you use fake money, ownership of stuff other than yourself is pretend.

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.

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

What about communist oregon and new jersey lol

Imagine slaves arguing over whos plantation is best. Classic.

Why do customers check out instead?

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.

Communist leftists ....of course

Because they want everyone as dumb as possible, if you still support government at this point, you are just about there.

You're joking right?

@@middleguy1776 Gov supporters are joking, actually no way to support gov and not be joking.

we own ourselves, only.

ban governments/freemasons, if you don't like 'wasting resources'

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.

It's not stealing anyways. People own themselves, that's all.

My plantation is better than yours

say no to government and it's supporters, that's all

because freemasons/government and their supporters

All of these giant corporations and your government (also a corporation), are a complete joke.

and prices going up etc., the endless cycle and yet I'm still surrounded by zombies that support gov.

YEAP