Current Events > Walmart is considering removing cashiers from all of its stores

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Crazyman93 posted...

My store's a mix. We have a lot of older who outright refuse to use self checkout under any circumstances for a variety of reasons going from "I don't want to put cashiers out of a job" to something about them not liking technology.

Why should I be expected to do the cashier's job, yet still pay the same prices for giving you less overhead?

Too much a stingy ass to do it myself without a discount, too honest to steal shit while I'm doing it. I dunno.

spanky1 posted...

I'm a millennial and I hate self checkout.

When I shop, I shop for a month with a massive cart full of items. I'm not gonna stand there and do that much work, fuck that.

This. It's a huge hassle. I know how to efficiently and effectively use self-check... but god do I hate them. I bust my ass every day at work, last thing I want to do is scan and bag 100 items of groceries.

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kinetika_ posted...

This. It's a huge hassle. I know how to efficiently and effectively use self-check... but god do I hate them. I bust my ass every day at work, last thing I want to do is scan and bag 100 items of groceries.

I mean, you're bagging them anyway and putting them up on the till, is a sliding motion to your left/right really THAT much more work?

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Funkydog posted...

I mean, you're bagging them anyway

You bag your own groceries?

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G-Ziss posted...

You bag your own groceries?

No one else is going to bag them for me are they?

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G-Ziss posted...

You bag your own groceries?

Funkydog posted...

No one else is going to bag them for me are they?

One of you shops where an employee bags them for you.

The other doesn't.

Kind of underlines the dissonance between posters in threads like this :/

There's 3 grocery stores within walking distance of my place. Only one has employees doing this and it depends on availability.

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the store i go to has like 2 baggers and they have like 8 checkouts and 2 self checkouts so yeah if the cashier doesnt do it i have to

Nice.

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archedsoul posted...

You guys haven't even seen Walmart's final form.

There's a Walmart in NY that's run by AI and it can detect everything in the fucking store including people and weights and shit.

Yeah, it's in Long Island. It's not a Walmart. It's a Walmart Neighborhood Market.

I go there. Shit is creepy. The entire back is a huge open window data center with tons of servers and shit. Shit is constantly scanning the whole store.

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the store I used to work had like 6 baggers, one for every 2 lanes

they got rid of their self checkout machines for some reason though. probably too many old people fucking it up

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Kildread posted...

One of you shops where an employee bags them for you.

The other doesn't.

Kind of underlines the dissonance between posters in threads like this :/

There's 3 grocery stores within walking distance of my place. Only one has employees doing this and it depends on availability.

Genuinely was not aware this was even a thing. Not sure I've ever seen it here in Britain, despite having gone to supermarkets all over the country.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

...until you want beer, cigarettes, spraypaint, or an R-rated movie.

Ive got beer at self checkout. The fuck you going on about?

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Cool more free items for me, just pretend to scan and you're good to go save alot of money.

Funkydog posted...

Genuinely was not aware this was even a thing. Not sure I've ever seen it here in Britain, despite having gone to supermarkets all over the country.

It's entirely possible some countries don't even have it as a service.

Here in Quebec, I've seen it at only one chain where you may have an employee bag your groceries in recent years, it used to much more common.


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DiegoSanchez206 posted...

Ive got beer at self checkout. The fuck you going on about?

so they don't ID anyone?

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They should keep at least 1 or 2 for old people.

thronedfire2 posted...

so they don't ID anyone?

There's an self checkout attendee that cards people or helps when need be
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G-Ziss posted...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. This shit happens to me all the time, sometimes more than once in a single checkout. And usually I have to wait several minutes for someone to come and help me.

If they take too long to come over I usually move over to another checkout. Blocked off 4 of them once to finally figure out not scanning the item was the way to go

thronedfire2 posted...

so they don't ID anyone?

Yeah it calls an associate over to check. Takes like 5 seconds

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Spooking posted...

I love self-checkout. Once implemented, I never went back to human cashier again.

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they recently did a big restructuring and got rid of a ton of people and now they've got those mop bot things, wouldn't surprise me

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How far are we from UBI being a necessity for people to survive?

Robots are the future everyone. We all will be replaced, cashiers, laborers, accountants, scientists, CEOs... even politicians.

Soon, we all will have no jobs, but that is when utopia will finally be achieved. It's why we need to make sure we get the proper things in place before the massive layoff, a UBI, plenty of housing, and plenty of avenues for people to do the creative things they want to do (robots can do these too, but for the sake of organic living beings, we will leave this to the organic humans).


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I mean, Amazon Go already exists. It has no cashier and no self check-out, you just grab the items, walk out of the store and get charged automatically for whatever you walked out with. Everything should be like that.

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DrizztLink posted...

Sounds like a personal problem.

Yeah I love the self checkout personally, mainly because Im way faster than 99% of the cashiers whose lines I end up in. I just want to get out of there as soon as possible.

Also every time an employee has had to come over to override something it was a mistake I made, not some issue with the process itself.

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Houston posted...

I can't see this being a success the way it's currently set up. What about customers who have their carts filled to the brim? Some of those shoppers are definitely not going to want to self-check out in that scenario. It would be very time consuming for many.

My walmart has two self check out linea that have the full coneyor belt like a regukar line. Honestly I can scan everything and bag it quicker than a cashier most of the time. Which to their defense they do it all day so fatigue affects their speed in sure

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Funkydog posted...

I mean, you're bagging them anyway and putting them up on the till, is a sliding motion to your left/right really THAT much more work?

Don't know where you shop but here you throw shit on a belt right front a cart and someone scans and bags it

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The Walmart by my house is so awful. They can take forever to help you override something. I prefer going to stores that have a mix of both, like superstore. Self-checkout for when I have two or three items. Cashier for more. Why the fuck should I bag my own groceries and scan them so Walmart can make even more profit. Fuck the Waltons.

Crazyman93 posted...

Don't know where you shop but here you throw shit on a belt right front a cart and someone scans and bags it

Evidently an American thing, never seen this here in Britain.

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Tbh Cashier is a very meaningless and unfulfilling job.

The more we phase it out the better for everyone's mental health; the jobs we have today is just completely meaningless and it offers no benefit to one's self and others.

We need jobs that actually have some meaningful impact in someone's life and others.

However

I don't believe Human Cashiers will disappear entirely; it will still be needed for small businesses and countries not as developed.

Anyone on CE knows I'm a big supporter of Robotics; we desperately need to reach the next advancement in society or you can forget about having any real space age, and that also means we need to respect each other as well because right now everyone is constantly screaming each other.

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Funkydog posted...

Evidently an American thing, never seen this here in Britain.

Yeah, only time I've ever seen a bagger is in US shows and movies. Cashier scans shit and expects you to bag it at breakneck speeds is how things work here in Europe

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I worked at a Walmart for 3+ years and used self checkout exclusively everyday for any shit I needed. Ever since leaving we still use self checkout every time we shop no matter how big our cart is.

We have never had any issues whatsoever and get confused at the amount of people that can't figure out how to use it. Like older people I understand that, because they're just not good with technology usually. But anybody younger than like 40 that can't figure out self checkout is extremely befuddling to me.

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monkmith posted...

so since they're getting rid of cashiers and janitors, how long before they get robots fully stocking the selves? at that point will shoppers even be allowed in? and of course, will they be rehiring all the former workers as AI/robot maintenance workers?

They aren't. The auto-sweeper didn't replace anything. Maintenance still have to use it because, the auto-sweeper is garbage.

fusespliff posted...

Yeah, only time I've ever seen a bagger is in US shows and movies. Cashier scans shit and expects you to bag it at breakneck speeds is how things work here in Europe

Yeah, here the cashier does both.

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Stores used to have baggers, even Walmart. They'd bag stuff and help you to your car with it. Not many do anymore.

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Balnazarr posted...

They aren't. The auto-sweeper didn't replace anything. Maintenance still have to use it because, the auto-sweeper is garbage.

My store doesn't even have the auto-sweeper. And given the way some of the teens act around here, that's probably a good thing. Inevitably it would get fucked with weekly. My preferred example is idiots throwing glass jars of pasta sauce into its path just to see if it will clean up pesto and glass.

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