{"id":21356,"date":"2022-12-18T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T08:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=21356"},"modified":"2022-12-18T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T08:47:57","slug":"unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=21356","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unexpected item\u2019: how self-checkouts failed to live up to their promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kiosks promised to make life easier for shoppers and stores. Instead, they\u2019ve done the oppositeWhen the first self-checkout kiosks were rolled out in American stores more than three decades ago, they were presented as technology that could help stores cut costs, save customers time, and even prevent theft.Businesses still fret over these issues&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/dec\/16\/self-checkout-us-retail-walmart\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kiosks promised to make life easier for shoppers and stores. Instead, they\u2019ve done the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21356-unexpected-item-how-self-checkouts-failed-to-live-up-to-their-promise.jpg",140,84,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}