Randall Webmail <[email protected]> writes: >My neighborhood Wal*Mart has pretty much eliminated cashiers in favor of >self-checkouts. > >Anyone so inclined could walk in, load up a cart, walk up to a self-checkout, >check maybe half the items in the cart, pay for them and leave, with no one >the wiser until the physical inventory didn't match up with the computer >inventory.
Don't they have minders that watch the self-checkouts? The way they're set up here your chances of sneaking an item out is probably about as good as it would be with a human-controlled checkout, and for anything more than one or two small items there's not much chance. (The self-checkouts are arranged in such a way that one or two people can supervise all of them, if they simply replaced the human in each row with a barcode scanner then it wouldn't be so easy). Peter. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
