place radio network and now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher if you're

shopping at Wegmans the northeastern grocery chain they have I don't

over a hundred stores now or something like that they have just canceled

their mobile app scan and go yeah they're not gonna do it apparently they haven't

found out what Sam's found out a long time ago just check people at the door

with their product even if you have the scan and go they still check you it

makes it faster because you don't have to go through the cash register and you

can just scan while you're shopping and then you hit the door and you're out

but they do have someone actually double checking the product in your cart

with your receipt that way it cuts down on you know theft so Wegmans said yeah

we're gonna go ahead and the app because of a rampant shoplifting they said

the losses we're experiencing prevent us from continuing to make it available in

its current state we've made the decision to turn the app off until we can

make improvements that will meet the needs of our customers and business and

that was it so the scan and go app was you know they were happy to get it

started a couple of years ago and said it's a way to ramp it's up cashier

last Amazon like Amazon ghost doors we don't even cashiers anymore oh okay

well maybe you need somebody to just check that cart at the door maybe a higher

somebody for that but what do I know so apparently they you know they're

saying that the self checkout abusers it's easy to do and it reaps rich rewards

even if they're caught there's no sanctions being applied and so this

particular professor at the University of Lechester in UK said that he

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