Should get a discount or something
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I'm with him, though, every few months the anti-self-checkout crowd is all up in arms
I somehow don't remember the anti-ATM machine crowd angry about putting tellers out of work or the anti-microwave crowd putting restaurant workers out of work, or the anti-car crowd upset about putting trolley drivers out of work
Automated teller machine machine
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My local grocery store limits self checkout to 10 items or less. My guess is that people have a hard time counting to 10 and just assume that their cart full of groceries is probably 10 items or less.
To be fair, that's a fairly universal problem. In the UK it's a basket Vs trolley split. They do have trolley self checkouts, but it's separate, and mainly intended for scan as you shop.
On a side note, what's with American supermarkets not having baskets at all. Did I just have really weird luck?
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To be fair, that's a fairly universal problem. In the UK it's a basket Vs trolley split. They do have trolley self checkouts, but it's separate, and mainly intended for scan as you shop.
On a side note, what's with American supermarkets not having baskets at all. Did I just have really weird luck?
Might've just been bad timing where baskets were piled up at the end of the checkout counters and the staff hadn't had the chance to bring them back near the entrances.
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Silly take. The problem isn't having to move my own items around across a scanner. The problem is me doing more, the store doing less, and the prices just keep going up anyways. You'd rather just silently get less?
Oh, and also the ridiculous cameras they stick right in your face pre-accusing me of stealing in the checkout. And having to juggle a whole cart of groceries while the machine asks me to move the item off and on the bagging area.
Maybe if they had implemented the system better I wouldn't mind using it?
OK Boomer.
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This was funny like a decade ago when it was commonplace.
Stores in my area solved that at least 6 years ago, maybe even earlier than that.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, even in South Central area of LA where I am, the system is quite responsive at the Food 4 Less.
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Still ought to be discounted since it's eliminating jobs.
there's a five finger discount
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I've heard self checkout is terrible in the US, however in Europe they're generally pretty nice
idk why people say it's bad! even at fucking Walmart i don't have issues
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You support taking away jobs
if you wanna know my actual beliefs on the matter, people shouldn't have to do meaningless labor to live
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UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA. Sorry, Jandro, I'm not here to get yelled at by a clanker.
maybe I'm just lucky, but I've never had that particular issue. the only time it's been slightly annoying is if I'm buying alcohol and the people watching self checkout are busy, and other than that, they're easy to use. I don't buy huge chunks of groceries at a time, though, ad I imagine large shops would be annoying
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"Please place the item in the bagging area!!!"
Kroger
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Speak for yourself
I mean the level of pressure is lower elsewhere than in Germany, of course it's still easy to feel anxious anywhere
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fun fact: you can get a discount at a self-checkout! grocery stores hate this one trick!
UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA!
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fun fact: you can get a discount at a self-checkout! grocery stores hate this one trick!
Yeah, better pay cash n wear a mask tho. They are starting to bust people for that.
https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/self-checkout-machine-retail-theft-shopping/64244074
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I know I'm in the minority
Dude look around the comment section. 90% talk about prefering self checkout
Lemmy doesn't exactly reflect the general population.
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How can you be faster when you have to both scan and bag everything, whereas at the human checkout you only have to bag?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Because I worked as a package clerk as a kid, some 30 years ago. They spent a week training us to be cashiers and how to pack groceries as optimally and quickly as possible. And most places around here, the timing of the cashier is not good, especially since we usually have to pack our own groceries anyway.
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Y'know that grocery stores could simply staff enough checkout registers and then all this self-checkout time-savings goes away, right? The stores - following the airline model - created a problem for the consumer (long checkout lines due to understaffing) and then effectively sold the customer the solution (you do your own labor, but grocery prices stay the same).
"If" in one hand, shit in the other. Which fills up first?
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I mean the level of pressure is lower elsewhere than in Germany, of course it's still easy to feel anxious anywhere
You say it's not a thing anywhere else, but you also say it's easy to feel that way anywhere. Those two statements aren't congruent
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[…] Me: "I don't work here"
This gives me big "ok boomer" vibes. Instead of this, imo, snarky response, could you not simply politely say that you prefer a human cashier?
Remember the human.
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Self check out is faster especially since I can scan the items when I’m picking them off the shelves. The faster I can be outside and spend less time in those kind of commercial spaces the better. And no I don’t have agoraphobia. I just fucking hate the vibes of most stores.
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if you wanna know my actual beliefs on the matter, people shouldn't have to do meaningless labor to live
What does that have to do with taking away jobs? A lot of jobs are meaningless doesn't mean you help corporations save a buck.
