Should get a discount or something
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Most stores in my city (in The Netherlands) just have a little terminal you can carry around the store with you. I scan my items with the terminal, it shows me the total price, discounts, points acquired (if I scan my customer card) and then i have the terminal scan the QR code on the self checkout and I just pay. Everything is already in my bag and they rarely check. It's great!
What a great idea, it would also preclude the cost-surprise I experience at the register.
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What a great idea, it would also preclude the cost-surprise I experience at the register.
Exactly, I only see benefits to doing this. And even if I then get chosen for the random check (the system chooses), I get to turn a wheel with prizes in the form of free products. I can choose a prize based on the category the wheel lands on. So sometimes I go home with an extra bar of chocolate or some fruit.
So getting chosen for the random check is no longer a hassle, its actually nice!
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Well, that doesn't necessarily require a keen bedside manner.
You say sadly. Do you... like your job? I know it can't always be helped, but I do hope you find a way to move into something better, if there is such a thing. My service job was almost a decade of my life, and I was sooo glad to leave when I was finally given an exit.
There are many aspects of my job that I do enjoy, but I think after over a decade in service jobs, I would either prefer a job or that isn't customer facing, or at least in phone support so I don't have to expend energy on face-to-face conversations.
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There are many aspects of my job that I do enjoy, but I think after over a decade in service jobs, I would either prefer a job or that isn't customer facing, or at least in phone support so I don't have to expend energy on face-to-face conversations.
Yeah, that makes sense. A decade is a long time to be doing something, especially if that thing wasn't quite the right fit to begin with.
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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.
That’s an insane comment from a crazy person. You’re unwell.
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Yes but you often have to wait to get to the cashier
I often have to wait to use the self-checkout as well
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Do you prefer any human interaction?
/s kinda
Not most
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Maybe you should speculate less and actually read some history?
Gee guess I missed "the ATM riots" day in history class
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The point is that we are being asked as paying customers to perform work which previously employed people to do it for us, strictly out of a profit motive for the store.
They are destroying jobs by shifting the workload onto the customer, so that some chain cunt can marginally increase their already immense wealth while fucking over the workers and the customers.
Be all that as it may, I don't see it as a justification for, imo, rude behavior towards others — in particular employees who, I would presume, have little control over the actions required of them while they are working.
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I AM the human cashier when I do self-checkout. People don't care WHO or what does it, they themselves just don't want to.
[…]People don’t care WHO or what does it, they themselves just don’t want to.
Then don't? Are you arguing that there doesn't exist an alternative that doesn't require one to self-checkout?
