Poll of the Day > People who wait in the self checkout line with a full cart...

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...and there's no line at manned registers.

What's the deal with that?
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I try to never use self checkout, tbh...
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More like people who are slow as fuck using self-checkout. Those people suck.

I'd ask myself if they thought it was opposites day.
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If you self checkout with more than a few items, you're an idiot

Hey, maybe we don't want people to see what we're buying.

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day
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DPsx7 posted...

Hey, maybe we don't want people to see what we're buying.

People can still see what you're buying Heck, there's even an attendant there watching you to make sure you don't steal anything.

Mead posted...

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day

Yeah, the people packaging them, shipping them, then loading the shelves were all clean too.

Mead posted...

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day

Why are you buying unwrapped meats and veggies?
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Mead posted...

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day

Why are you buying unwrapped meats and veggies?

and not putting them in a plastic bag
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Mead posted...

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day

Why are you buying unwrapped meats and veggies?

Because plastic is 100% impermeable
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Mead posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Mead posted...

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day

Why are you buying unwrapped meats and veggies?

Because plastic is 100% impermeable

That's a fallacy but so is the idea that attempting to wipe out bacterium is a good idea.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Mead posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Mead posted...

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day

Why are you buying unwrapped meats and veggies?

Because plastic is 100% impermeable

That's a fallacy but so is the idea that attempting to wipe out bacterium is a good idea.

Good thing no one is claiming that
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Mead posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Mead posted...

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day

Why are you buying unwrapped meats and veggies?

Because plastic is 100% impermeable

I usually don't mind because other people have possibly touched it as well. As long as the food itself is clean, I'm fine...
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LinkPizza posted...

Mead posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Mead posted...

Maybe I dont want people touching my food that have been handling filthy cash all day

Why are you buying unwrapped meats and veggies?

Because plastic is 100% impermeable

I usually don't mind because other people have possibly touched it as well. As long as the food itself is clean, I'm fine...

Well, there is also the whole process of cooking it.
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Maybe they just like to do it themselves.

Sometimes people have social anxiety too and they'd rather wait to do self checkout than to have to force small talk with the cashier. It makes it really uncomfortable.
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LinkPizza posted...

I try to never use self checkout, tbh...

Same. If it's just one item I do though. The problem I have with self service is I always seem to get a worker in the store hovering over me ready for the machine to shit the bed. Most of the time it does too.
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Jen0125 posted...

Maybe they just like to do it themselves.

Sometimes people have social anxiety too and they'd rather wait to do self checkout than to have to force small talk with the cashier. It makes it really uncomfortable.

If you have social anxiety, avoiding social interactions is the worst thing to do, if you want to overcome it. But I guess even going to the grocery store and doing your own shopping instead of having it delivered is also a good step forward.

But still, don't self checkout with a full cart.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

If you have social anxiety, avoiding social interactions is the worst thing to do, if you want to overcome it.

Exposure therapy would indeed be helpful I'd imagine. Thankfully I don't have social anxiety though and I understand there isn't a one shoe fits all way of dealing with the many forms of anxiety.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Jen0125 posted...

Maybe they just like to do it themselves.

Sometimes people have social anxiety too and they'd rather wait to do self checkout than to have to force small talk with the cashier. It makes it really uncomfortable.

If you have social anxiety, avoiding social interactions is the worst thing to do, if you want to overcome it. But I guess even going to the grocery store and doing your own shopping instead of having it delivered is also a good step forward.

But still, don't self checkout with a full cart.

I don't think exposure therapy really helps most people with social anxiety

wwinterj25 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

If you have social anxiety, avoiding social interactions is the worst thing to do, if you want to overcome it.

Exposure therapy would indeed be helpful I'd imagine. Thankfully I don't have social anxiety though and I understand there isn't a one shoe fits all way of dealing with the many forms of anxiety.

You can't become comfortable around other people when you're constantly avoiding other people.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

You can't become comfortable around other people when you're constantly avoiding other people.

You do understand that social anxiety is fear of others perception of you not the fear of being around other people right?
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wwinterj25 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

You can't become comfortable around other people when you're constantly avoiding other people.

You do understand that social anxiety is fear of others perception of you not the fear of other people right?

There are multiple types of social anxiety, none of which are helped by excluding yourself from human connections.
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wwinterj25 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

You can't become comfortable around other people when you're constantly avoiding other people.

You do understand that social anxiety is fear of others perception of you not the fear of being around other people right?

You do understand that by avoiding people you also avoid any perceptions, right?

Not really caring to argue, just saying that while he got the definition wrong, the concept of avoidance still works.

GanglyKhan posted...

wwinterj25 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

You can't become comfortable around other people when you're constantly avoiding other people.

You do understand that social anxiety is fear of others perception of you not the fear of being around other people right?

You do understand that by avoiding people you also avoid any perceptions, right?

Not really caring to argue, just saying that while he got the definition wrong, the concept of avoidance still works.

Avoidance helps you not feel the anxiety but the seclusion also prevents you from overcoming it while strengthening it so when you must interact, it's unbearable.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

...and there's no line at manned registers.

What's the deal with that?

There is no deal with that. That's something that happens so rarely that it's not really worth debating.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

There are multiple types of social anxiety, none of which are helped by excluding yourself from human connections.

Again not one shoe fits all so exposure therapy doesn't work for everyone. I don't know why I'm talking about anxiety things with someone who said Caffeine has no connection to anxiety.

GanglyKhan posted...

You do understand that by avoiding people you also avoid any perceptions, right?

Read my original post then ask that again.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Avoidance helps you not feel the anxiety but the seclusion also prevents you from overcoming it while strengthening it so when you must interact, it's unbearable.

Yeah, I'm on board with that. Evading solves little in the long run.

Aren't you homeless anyway?

GanglyKhan posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Avoidance helps you not feel the anxiety but the seclusion also prevents you from overcoming it while strengthening it so when you must interact, it's unbearable.

Yeah, I'm on board with that. Evading solves little in the long run.

Aren't you homeless anyway?

So homeless. It's a good thing I got married.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Again not one shoe fits all so exposure therapy doesn't work for everyone. I don't know why I'm talking about anxiety things with someone who said Caffeine has no connection to anxiety.

I imagine he at least has experience with anxiety since that's a very common reason for alcoholism

OhhhJa posted...

I imagine he at least has experience with anxiety since that's a very common reason for alcoholism

Then why he would suggest something as silly as that is beyond me. Mind you it's not the first time nor the last he'll shitpost something stupid here. Perhaps he was drunk.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

If you have social anxiety, avoiding social interactions is the worst thing to do, if you want to overcome it. But I guess even going to the grocery store and doing your own shopping instead of having it delivered is also a good step forward.

Maybe they don't want to overcome it.
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Personal attacks are always productive in civil conversations. It's a good thing winter wasn't trying to argue.
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It's possible that they just plain don't want to deal with people..
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wwinterj25 posted...

Read my original post then ask that again.

Gotcha, good point.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Personal attacks are always productive in civil conversations. It's a good thing winter wasn't trying to argue.

Nothing to really argue considering I said exposure therapy is helpful to some folk. Quite a few folk put that into practice on the course I was on for anxiety. Also there is a book called "feel the fear but do it anyway". I've not read the book as it's not needed in my case but the title certainly applies to many forms of anxiety.
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wwinterj25 posted...

LinkPizza posted...

I try to never use self checkout, tbh...

Same. If it's just one item I do though. The problem I have with self service is I always seem to get a worker in the store hovering over me ready for the machine to shit the bed. Most of the time it does too.

After using self checkout and observing others, the main problems lays in the fact that most grocery store patrons have never worked at a grocery store. There is also the issue of the weight system sensitivity and the coding regarding that.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

After using self checkout and observing others, the main problems lays in the fact that most grocery store patrons have never worked at a grocery store. There is also the issue of the weight system sensitivity and the coding regarding that.

If the machines are not reliable or effective for the general customers it's time for a more accessible redesign. You should not need to have worked in a field of work in order to use self service.
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I've had zero problems ever with self checkout. It's easy and I've never worked at a grocery store

It's easier to steal stuff/ social anxiety/ they think it'll be quicker since the line is smaller even though the machine will crap out 50 times during the process.
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Why would you choose to talk to random people? There's enough people you need to communicate with in a normal day.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Why would you choose to talk to random people? There's enough people you need to communicate with in a normal day.

This too. There's a reason that people are being replaced by machines in these types of jobs

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Why would you choose to talk to random people? There's enough people you need to communicate with in a normal day.

That's like saying why would a positively charged ion seek out a negativity charged ion.

BALANCE AND HARMONY!
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Golden Road posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

...and there's no line at manned registers.

What's the deal with that?

There is no deal with that. That's something that happens so rarely that it's not really worth debating.

Depends on when you go. I use to see it all the time. Especially super late at night. Like between 11pm-2am.

Jen0125 posted...

have to force small talk with the cashier

I guess it depends on the store. I know one store I go to where I talk to the cashiers all the time because I see them often and basically know them. I've also been to plenty or stores where nobody talks. I personally find it weird to not say anything, but I know some people prefer it that way. I guess they could always go to that store if they really are going to try to avoid people. That being said, Idc if they use the self checkout since that's less people in front of me...

SunWuKung420 posted...

After using self checkout and observing others, the main problems lays in the fact that most grocery store patrons have never worked at a grocery store. There is also the issue of the weight system sensitivity and the coding regarding that.

I don't have a problem with self checkout. I have worked at Target, though. I just don't feel like scanning and bagging everything. Plus, it's much quicker to go through a regular line with a cashier.

OhhhJa posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Why would you choose to talk to random people? There's enough people you need to communicate with in a normal day.

This too. There's a reason that people are being replaced by machines in these types of jobs

Like that Amazon store opening up. If those open up everywhere, lots of people will lose jobs. They are trying to say they won't, but they will...
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if there is no line then why don't you use the other register?
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

if there is no line then why don't you use the other register?

It possible that the manned register is further away. And when you only have one item, it's probably much quicker at the self checkout. Though, for the people with the full cart, it would be much quicker to use the manned lane.
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I will always use self checkout, unless I have alcohol, or something they need to verify my age. Even if I have a full cart, i am usually faster than the actual cashiers. Fortunately there are a few stores in my area that shut down cashier operated ones at a certain time, and become all self checkouts.
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CaptainObvius posted...

I will always use self checkout, unless I have alcohol, or something they need to verify my age. Even if I have a full cart, i am usually faster than the actual cashiers. Fortunately there are a few stores in my area that shut down cashier operated ones at a certain time, and become all self checkouts.

I'm not saying you're not fast or anything. But it would probably be faster with a manned register with a full cart because a cashier can start scanning stuff while you're putting stuff on the conveyor belt. So, I think with a full cart, it would be much faster with a cashier just because of multitasking. Not to mention, as soon as you're done stacking stuff on the belt, you can start taking the full bags... Where as you would be taking stuff out, scanning, and bagging by yourself otherwise. Now, with two people, it would be a little faster. And with three, maybe faster than the cashier. But I think it wouldn't be as fast if you were by yourself.
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Didnt read anything anybody said but I always use self checkout if I can. Anything to not talk to people working