Woolworths issued a warning for its customers about the proper placement of bottles and cans of beverages on the conveyor belt in its stores.

Woolworths spokesperson Liam Kirley posted a video on social media in which he emphasized that customers should place cans and beverages upright when placing them onto the conveyor belt at the checkout.

If you place the bottles and cans on the conveyor, they may not advance towards the register.

The video shows how bottles and cans placed horizontally along the belt tend to remain in the same place and do not move.

To prevent this issue, it is recommended that you stand your drinks upright.

Woolworths employees also backed the advice given in the comments. Some even said they found it funny to watch customers make mistakes.

This comes on the heels of another controversy over the cameras used at self-service checkouts in a major supermarket.

Woolworths has installed the AI overhead cameras in 250 Woolworths stores along Australia’s East Coast following a successful test last year.

The spokesperson stated that they are designed to reduce the number of miss-scans and make shopping “more convenient.”

The 52-year-old woman posted her experience on social media, saying she had been shopping at Woolworths for 18 years and that she would never steal anything from the store.

She was very offended when her bag was searched during a recent trip.

Today was the second day that a person at a self-checkout stopped what they were doing to check my vision as I shopped. “Completely unacceptable,” said the woman.

The woman stated in a series of social media posts that were viewed over 100,000 times that the problem at the checkout stemmed from her having items from another store in her cart.

She agreed that self-service checkouts are convenient for both customers and stores but objected to how they made people feel guilty when they weren’t.

This is not the first time that the new camera technology has been criticized.

Woolworths assured customers that all images captured by these cameras were only used for training and would not be visible to the public.

Woolworths’ spokeswoman told News.com.au that “all retailers are experiencing a rise in retail crime, and we are no exception.”

We use a variety of covert and open initiatives to reduce retail crime.

We’ve been using cameras at the checkout since early 2022 to reduce misscans.

The accuracy of the system is expected to improve as we continue to adapt it to our retail network.