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Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Scanning your own ID probably won't be a thing since it won't be able to determine whether the ID belongs to you or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Also I would not do so because of privacy issues. The main ID in my country doesn't have scannable parts anyway, but even if it did, I would much rather not give a store a chance to record some of my personal data like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You'd love what one of my local stores does then - they give you the option to register your fingerprints after they check your ID for when you want to buy booze in the self checkout!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

In my state, stores already scan the ID when buying booze. It isn't all the time, but it's fairly requent.