{"id":26993,"date":"2007-05-03T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/05\/03\/unexpected-consequences-of-self-checkout\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T10:00:01","slug":"unexpected-consequences-of-self-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070503-01\/?p=26993","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected consequences of self-checkout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I heard an interesting report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/\">Marketplace<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/shows\/2006\/09\/27\/AM200609272.html\"> surprises in the self-checkout lane<\/a>. Impulse buying is down, and stores have come up with other ways to entice you into buying something you hadn&#8217;t planned. And it turns out that fears from retailers that customers would cheat at the self-checkout turned out to be misplaced: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> The reality of the situation is that most losses or theft come from the employees themselves. One of the things that we&#8217;re realizing is actually that customers are more honest than the people that are working there. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard an interesting report on Marketplace on surprises in the self-checkout lane. Impulse buying is down, and stores have come up with other ways to entice you into buying something you hadn&#8217;t planned. And it turns out that fears from retailers that customers would cheat at the self-checkout turned out to be misplaced: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I heard an interesting report on Marketplace on surprises in the self-checkout lane. Impulse buying is down, and stores have come up with other ways to entice you into buying something you hadn&#8217;t planned. And it turns out that fears from retailers that customers would cheat at the self-checkout turned out to be misplaced: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}