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by Broken_Hippo 886 days ago
I mean... Differences in location. I'm in Norway.

Most places have turned off the weight balance on the two sides, so it is no longer an issue.

I don't have a receipt check, but I do remember walmart did that before I moved ~10 years ago - those Walmarts didn't have self-checkouts, so it definitely isn't because of those. Stores thought this was good before self-checkouts were everywhere.

My mother once refused. They harassed her, and she ended up yelling. I cannot recall where this was, however, since there were not a Costco in the area.

I do - at some stores - get a random check, where they check a few items to make sure they were scanned. And then most of the time, I scan my receipt to get out of the check out area.