Should get a discount or something
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Wow, an ADD person telling an ADHD person to grow some patience, almost like they are very different things or something because I can tell you personally that the H in ADHD does not play well with patience.
Why don't you "just" be more patient tho?
/bitter, downtrodden sarcasm
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I went to the US for a few days. Their self checkouts seem to be universally awful, compared to the UK or German equivalent.
While the hardware is far less reliable, and more convoluted, it's the users that seem the main issue. Self checkout is generally intended (over here) to shift the fast, small shops out of the main queues. 1 big line and a dozen or more tills. In the states they treat it as just another till. Built for trollies, and 1 queue per till. Combined with a slow user and it becomes hell rapidly.
wrote last edited by [email protected]In the states they treat it as just another till.
THIS is why I hate selfcheckout, it WILL be used to fire all retail checkout workers IRRESPECTIVE of whether self checkout is actually more efficient and useful as a full replacement.
Meanwhile introverts celebrate self checkout here in the US with a shallow understanding of the process of extreme enshittification that is happening that is functionally irreversible especially in a country as broken as the US.
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Do what, drag a barcode over a flat surface and put an item in a bag? Oh no.
I'll do that all day if it means I don't need to interact with anyone.
Do what, drag a barcode over a flat surface and put an item in a bag?
Correct, most people don't want to bother with it.
I'll do that all day if it means I don't need to interact with anyone.
What? You just stand there, wait for them to finish scanning, pay with card, and that's it. 0 interaction.
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You must have some speedy cashiers at your local store!
wrote last edited by [email protected]No, the point is you perceive them as slower because when you rush you can feel it things feel snappy, you can emotionally feel your speed further and it is unfortunately socially acceptable for you to openly shit on retail workers as lazy, stupid and incompetent in a classist insult.
This is the same phenomena as when older conservative men who have gotten used to being in control of everything cannot actually physically restrain themselves from micromanaging whatever they see people doing infront of them because they can't handle their irrational experience of impatience not having the companion emotional experience of rushing at the task.
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Too bad, most larger stores here have them, I love it. Shopping is so quick this way, every thing is already in the bag when you leave, and you just tap your card to pay, and leave by scanning a barcode on your receipt.
Edit: here being Sweden
Yeah it was great, especially for packing frozen stuff right away in thermal bags 🥲
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Thanks for your kind message. Fear of embarrassment is really something that holds us back
Of course, friend.
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I currently work in retail, please just tell me what you want, pay for it, and GTFO. I have significantly more important tasks to do than chit chat.
Geez, I hope they're not putting you front of counter.
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In the states they treat it as just another till.
THIS is why I hate selfcheckout, it WILL be used to fire all retail checkout workers IRRESPECTIVE of whether self checkout is actually more efficient and useful as a full replacement.
Meanwhile introverts celebrate self checkout here in the US with a shallow understanding of the process of extreme enshittification that is happening that is functionally irreversible especially in a country as broken as the US.
In the UK, they've taken some tills out. About 4 tills become 16 self checkouts. They still have plenty of tills for normal checkout.
It definitely lets less staff get more people through, in less time. So far, it's not been excessively abused over here. It's also made my life significantly less annoying.
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Support UBI, then meaningless jobs don't matter.
How is that an argument? You're just spouting whataboutisms.
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At self checkout, I pack while I scan, and then I have control over the order of scanning and packing.
It does suck that places are opting to have self checkout in exclusion to checkout lanes, but for the people that don't like self checkout just don't use it when you have the choice.
Costco is especially infuriating because they do not tolerate anything on the platform before you can start. You also cannot remove anything from the platform before you've paid and everything... So you can't pack as you go, making everything slower and more stressful for everyone. If you even attempt to, the goddamn thing locks up and the clerk has to unlock it for you.
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Reminds me of this Bill Burr clip.
"You know what I hate about these corporate chains? You go in there you're paying for a business, they make you like do half the job now. I don't get it. Like I walk in there,
- Hey, lemme get a turkey sandwich. Lettuce, tomato, on rye, with mayonnaise.
The guy behind the counter's like,
- All right, turkey sandwich, lettuce, tomato, on rye.
- And mayonnaise.
- Oh, the mayonnaise is, uuh, right over there.
- Really? Why don't you, UUH, fucking GO OVER THERE and, UUH, put it on my sandwich?"
(Yeah I just wrote that out. Why? Fuck you I don't have to explain myself to you.)
Back when Fudruckers was a thing, I always got upset when people wanted to go there.
If I'm paying you $18 for a mediocre hamburger, you can put on the damn lettuce.
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I shop in the morning to avoid lines. But, before self-checkout, they'd only have two registers open, so there was still a line. With self-checkout, in the morning, there's never a line so it's faster.
I like Walmart self-checkout machines better than others I've used, such as at Lowe's or Target (I don't shop at Target anymore) because I only need to put in my pin number, there's no other confirmations. I ignore the rate the store, donation, and print or email receipt questions while I put the groceries back in the cart, those all time out and the receipt prints by default.
I'm happy enough to chat or not chat to strangers, so that was never an issue for me. I'm sorry so many of the younger generation were apparently so poorly socialized, it must be stressful.
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People get more sociable the closer you get to the equator. This is reflected in the distance from which people talk to you. So in the southern USA people are very chatty and will talk about pretty much anything while basically sitting on your lap, but in Norway you'll pretty much just shout across the fjord at someone to tell them their house is on fire if you're in a talkative mood. Talking to cashier's doesn't happen anyway.
Great point! But I'm in the American South and cashiers are rarely talkative, at all.
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You have cashiers that wish to chat?!
The cashiers at the store across the street (that has no self check out) will talk your freakin' ear off. There could be 1 person ahead of you with a single item and it takes 'em 15 minutes to get checked out.
I see that as a positive! They're happy at their job, who am I to complain?
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I won’t end up single-bagging a bunch of stuff that could be bagged together (e.g. if they scanned some window cleaner, they bag it separate, not knowing that some dishwasher detergent is coming that it could be packed with).
Not that it is foolproof but unloading your cart in an organized manner helps with that. Though maybe you're talking about helpless baggers, I've seen plenty of both clueless baggers and customers who toss things onto the belt willy-nilly.
Yep! First job was as a grocery boy. If you feed the cashier your goods in an organized manner, they do better.
My wife was an utter mess at Aldi, pushed her aside and handled scanning and bagging my way. Know what? She's great at it now! After watching a few times, she hands me our purchases in a logical order. Boxy stuff? That goes together. Cold goods? Goes together. Heavy shit? That goes in the empty bag. Soft stuff? Top off a bag.
What's great is that I didn't say much of anything. She figured it out after a few trips!
Anyway, I'm a grocery bagging expert. AMA.
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Geez, I hope they're not putting you front of counter.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Either amusingly or sadly, honestly, I still haven't decided which, I am my store's top earner and am considered a solid keyholder to the point I am regularly sent to go help out other stores of their messes.
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Great point! But I'm in the American South and cashiers are rarely talkative, at all.
Wasn't my experience in Shreveport.
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Do what, drag a barcode over a flat surface and put an item in a bag? Oh no.
I'll do that all day if it means I don't need to interact with anyone.
I hate self check out. I'm a BYO bags person and the damn thing is always yelling at me, always talking mechanically at me, too loud. I would so much rather experience small talk.
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I have witnessed far to many people with full carts que into the self check out, and than they get frustrated when every other thing they scan throws a flag.
Bitch, SCO is for 10 items or less!
Is it really? I've never seen such a sign in my corner of the US. Often there's only one human operated checkout.
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Is it really? I've never seen such a sign in my corner of the US. Often there's only one human operated checkout.
The 'let the kid touch the hot stove' approach.
It worked on me, but I fear other people might nurse their burns and pray that next time things will be different.My experience is different. It's a dense urban grocer. Now that you mention it, I've been to Target in the suburbs where SCO was like thunder dome. A little more room for bagging, but not much. I feel so bad for the one team member dashing around checking IDs and explaining why coupons from a decade ago no longer work.
My location (different grocer ) may be privileged, because, even when it's slow, there are two full service registers. I remember how gross it felt watching a checker at Walmart in 02 also bag the groceries because baggers didn't exist any more.
