As an autistic person, I certainly prefer self-checkout. I would much rather have to deal with an annoying error than have to interact with a cashier, or worse, having that cashier ask about my day or something. Besides, most of the error messages have to do with self-checkout being implemented badly, and are not inherently an issue with self-checkout.
Ideally, self-checkout would work well, and in the ideally rare case where it doesn’t work, a person would be called automatically to deal with the issue and provided with a descriptive error which they know how to deal with. In this case, I believe the cashier job could be replaced with self-checkout.
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Plenty of people who have time and don’t want to pay a cashier. Seems like a terrible job to me.
Grocery stores here are just so terrible and alienating… Especially the high end ones that my dad goes to. I hate them and knowing I will never be able to afford anything there if I wanted to.
WinCo is sort of OK. Costco is too elitist. SamsClub has bad selection and I don’t bother to check their prices. Safeway is overpriced and they didn’t even let me get a job there. Farmers markets tend to be insanely overpriced. Anything pretending to be some type of fancy environment is just highly depressing. Trader Joe’s can be OK but I would go whenever it isn’t super crowded. Yeah I can’t think of any more food stuff.
It is at this moment where I am truly grateful to be Chinese. The idea of a parent living a nice life while children have to made do and give up certain things is utterly unimaginable. If your father was chinese he would certainly give you financial assistance. Obviously he shouldn’t give you everything but my mother would do what is within her power to help me.
Oh we are actually doing fairly OK more so than most USAians. He is just overworked. I am arguably underworked. But they are OK he helped me get my first job and I help my folks out with the property and business stuff. (I live with them.) We are actually going to go backpacking on Friday.
On aggregate I prob wouldn’t want to be amerikan tho.
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I like it because poor folks have an easier time getting free food.
hell yeah
The ol’ find the bin number with the lowest price per weight and “buy only that one produce” trick!
I noticed some people do like it, or more rather accept it, but it’s nearly always because the same reason - because there is never enough cashiers. So it’s just the usual, capitalism causing problem and then trying to fix it in the worst and most convoluted way possible.
I actually prefer self-checkout; it’s usually faster and I don’t have to talk to anyone. In a socialist country, it could replace cashiers without a problem (as long as there’s someone to help you if an error occurs)
Same. Stores over here have a rule of 15 articles or less = self checkout. More items = normal line. It seems to work. Especially since most grocery stores over here are build in small buildings and don’t have a lot of normal check outs. I don’t want to wait in line for 10 minutes if I’m only buying two tomatoes.
Hear me out…when I’m walking through a foodmax, somewhat inebriated, I don’t wanna disturb the cashier. So there is that convenience in self checkout.
That being said, it would be nice to see something as menial as cashiering be phased out of society (speaking in a future image). I think it’s quite sad to see labor be tied up serving profits.
I’m sure there are people who genuinely do enjoy doing it, but I think having more free time would be a plus for workers! What do you think?
My only issue with self-checkouts is how awkward and a pain in the ass it is when you got a lot of stuff in your cart.
“Please place the item in the bagging area”
sobs in a heap on the floor
“Unexpected item in bagging area! Please remove item!”
“Item unexpectedly removed from bagging area! Please wait for an attendant to assist you!”
It’s that second line where it means I now need to talk to someone else 😭 just kill me now
I have ptsd from that phrase
I’ve literally nearly had a breakdown over it. 5 items in a row and it didn’t clock the weight 😭
“I BEGETH OF YOU, RETURNETH THINE OWN BAG”
quothe the checkout: “Unexpected item in bagging area! Please remove item!”
FUCKETH THOU
I’d break it if I could afford to replace it (or run away and get away with it)
arson is a thought
make it your theory
Bagging areas
The highest form of Imperialism
Find that mute button, fam
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My biggest problem is how damn patronising they are. They intentionally slow you down explaining everything in excruciating detail, and you’re not allowed to skip it or continue with the actual checking out until it’s done talking.
“Welcome to X Store self checkout! Please hold the barcode of your first item to the scanner below!”
“Please put your item in the bagging area! Then, scan your next item by holding the barcode to the scanner below!”
“Please select payment method by selecting debit, credit, cash, or gift card using the touch screen!”
“If you have a points card, please scan it by holding the barcode up to the scanner below! If you do not have a points card, please press skip on the touch screen! If you would like to register for a points card, please go to customer service!”
“Please follow instructions on the pinpad! Or, if you’d like to choose another payment method, please press ‘choose another payment method’ on the touch screen, and select another payment method!”
All in that grating, artificially cheerful monotone.
Look, I know it’s to help the elderly and people who genuinely don’t know how to use it, but fucking just give me a “I know what I’m doing so skip all the bullshit” button!
Hmmm the ones I’ve used don’t give any bullshit about bagging area. Guess I’ll be thankful.
It’s cheaper. That’s why.
Something something capital reproducing a reserve army of labour.
Comerades, do you guys know of any tricks which disgusting thieves use to shoplift free food from grocery stores?
As a Landlord who owns 18 Grocery stores and 3 malls, I am very frustrated at the loss of profits and utter disrespect with which low-income African Americans and Mexicans treat me and my family. So, I’m asking you all to provide me some techniques with which thieves steal MY precious profits, and tell me what methods me and my employees have to catch them and resist shoplifting, and tell me if there are any loopholes, for example, tricks which these dirty poor homeless thieves use to get past surveillance and security. Any help is much appreciated.I’ve noticed a lot of scum ring expensive organic items as their standard counter parts. Even worse, some bring in their own bags, fill them, and set one off to the side and never ring the items inside up. They just pay for one bag and take the other for free!
Some dastardly thieves go to WinCo to plunder. In the section where you scoop bulk dry foods from bins into bags they avoid the cameras and fill their pockets.
I used to prefer self checkout but then idk, I started buying fresh vegetables and alcohol and at that point it’s just easier to wait in line and go to a cashier. Now I fucking hate self checkout. Why should I subject myself to that torture when I can just have a trained cashier ring it up. Also I don’t want to give the store free labor. They are already not paying their actual labor force enough.
Running👏🏻 a👏🏼 till👏🏽 is👏🏾 skilled👏🏿 labour!
