Current Events > people who whine about self checkouts are funny as hell.

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spoiler alert they allow you to get in much quicker, control your own bagging and no they aren't even taking many "cashier" type jobs

Last time I went into Wal-Mart there was like 3 people working there and two of them were guarding the door. Corporations are def profiting off of this.

I like them personally. Especially in the past 2 years.

Plus they still have like 2 or 3 workers around them to assist customers. Not sure if it's even putting that many people out of work.

They are okay, but they really needa make more of the big ones.

Self checkout takes much longer at grocery stores Ive been to since you have to put each individual item in the bag one at a time so that it can detect the weight before it lets you scan the next item. Walmart does it right, letting you put your items wherever after you scan it.

Full shopping carts should always be faster with a cashier, though, unless you have to wait in a long line.

Dakimakura posted...

Last time I went into Wal-Mart there was like 3 people working there and two of them were guarding the door. Corporations are def profiting off of this.

went to two wally worlds while traveling last year, one had a good 15 checkout lanes with 3 actually manned so I waited about 15 minutes to check out for a good 8-9 items, the 2nd one shut off their self checkout lanes so I waited 20 minutes behind another customer as she dug through to pay for her shit with all cash.
at my home store I have never waited longer than 5 minutes before a lane comes open

Honestly my biggest issue is when people either suck at scanning stuff or you get those assholes that are doing large purchases. Like lady you have a full shopping cart go to a regular cashier.

The only thing I don't like about them is when something goes wrong, and the checkout says "help is coming" and it makes me feel like I'm trapped in a collapsed building being reassured by a rescue robot.

Grocery stores used to do all of this shit for you, and now they don't. Seems like a loss for consumers.

Yea for about 15 items or less they are awesome.

Wawa has them finally and it is amazing on a convenience store. Can just bop in and out.

What gets me is at the CVS near my office, Ill go up to the counter and the cashiers all Oh, let me help you use the self checkout. IF I WANTED TO USE THE SELF CHECKOUT I WOULD HAVE GONE UP TO THE SELF CHECKOUT.

Why pay a cashier when you can have the customers do it for free?

I often end up getting ones that are crappy. And they're fine if you're only getting a few things. Not if you need to do heavy duty shopping. They should just get shoved in the 10 items or less lane.

Lordgold666 posted...

Why pay a cashier when you can have the customers do it for free?

Why force someone to do the job when it's more convenient to just do yourself? You're not forced to use self-checks. I also imagine it's preferable to people with extreme social anxiety or people who just get anxiety spikes and don't wanna stand there awkwardly

It makes it really easy to steal stuff

Picks up bag before paying

Please return bag to the bagging area

WHAT IS THIS FOREIGN LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK!?

MICHALECOLE posted...

It makes it really easy to steal stuff

Pray tell your tricks PM or share

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Why force someone to do the job when it's more convenient to just do yourself? You're not forced to use self-checks. I also imagine it's preferable to people with extreme social anxiety or people who just get anxiety spikes and don't wanna stand there awkwardly

Actually, you are forced to use the self checkouts in certain Wal Mart test stores. That's the future retail and grocery chains are dreaming about. After I've been working all day, the last thing I want to do is scan and bag up a cart full of groceries. I have a family of 5, so I easily drop $200+ on one grocery trip sometimes.

Obviously, if you have one or two items the self checkout is great. I don't think anyone complains about them in that instance.

coolboy11 posted...

spoiler alert they allow you to get in much quicker, control your own bagging and no they aren't even taking many "cashier" type jobs

I agree with all 3 of these points, especially the first 2 because they are both very important to me personally

Dakimakura posted...

Last time I went into Wal-Mart there was like 3 people working there and two of them were guarding the door. Corporations are def profiting off of this.

.....I am only going to say this once in this thread. If you want to blame anyone, blame the moron cashiers who don't show up for work. You as an outsider look at it and say "oh, the self checkouts are taking away from real cashier jobs". Me, as someone who actually worked in those places, "no, we schedule 10 people to show up for work, only 3 actually showed up".

Those self checkouts were installed to lower the amount of work the cashiers who show up for every shift have to do. Because sometimes we had lineups in the dozens if not a hundred people in our lineup. On one of my work days we had 25 people scheduled to work registers. Only 3 people actually showed up to work the entire day.

People would choose to "enjoy the day" or "hang out with friends", rather than work their scheduled shift. And it isn't 100 percent their fault. Corporations are just as much at fault for this. They don't fire anyone to set an example, and many times they reschedule or ignore preset schedules just to fill voids in shifts. I know that one day one of the managers got pissed off at me for my coworker going home at 10 pm, instead of his scheduled 10:30 pm. The issue wasn't with him. He was scheduled to work until 10 pm, they changed his schedule overnight without telling him.

It's like.... don't get pissed off at me because you guys suck at telling your employees that the shift has changed, or even talking to them in general.

Sexypwnstar posted...

Pray tell your tricks PM or share

How many apples do you have?
oh, only two

but really I have four

They were pretty annoying when they were forcing you to use the scale, but pretty much every place I've been to no longer has that requirement. Much quicker now, especially places that have a detachable scanner.

kelemvor posted...

Actually, you are forced to use the self checkouts in certain Wal Mart test stores. That's the future retail and grocery chains are dreaming about. After I've been working all day, the last thing I want to do is scan and bag up a cart full of groceries. I have a family of 5, so I easily drop $200+ on one grocery trip sometimes.

Obviously, if you have one or two items the self checkout is great. I don't think anyone complains about them in that instance.

Alright. I haven't personally been to one those.

theyre also prob ugly bc they dont check themselves out