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by BobaFloutist 890 days ago
Costco is so annoying about this, it's not even that it complains about unexpected items, it requires you to put every scanned item on the scale, and if you're shopping at Costco, you probably have some pretty bulky, heavy items that you'd really rather just put back in the cart instead of building the Leaning Tower of Palettes of Toilet Paper and Tuna.

I get why they do it that way, but they already check your receipt before you exit, you're supposed to have a membership that they supposedly check at the door before you shop there (I know they don't really) which they could presumably revoke if you got caught trying to steal, and self-checkout receipts already have the turquoise bars to prompt them to check closer, so it feels a bit absurd.

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The Home Depot stores near me do this really well. Since they also sell a lot of bulky and/or oddly shaped merchandise, their self checkouts each have a wireless, handheld barcode scanner that you can use to scan each item, often without even taking it out of your cart.