My local Kroger obviously has trouble getting people to work there. After I stayed away a while when they forced us sheeplike shoppers to bend across the U-scan area for a full shopping and then stop the weight sensors from thinking I had moved something in a forbidden way so I wouldn’t knock over some things, I was happy to see a cashier (with a long line) at one-—count ‘em, one-—checkout lane.
Next week, none again. It hurts my lower back to do all the checkout and bagging myself. And I always have a produce or other item that doesn’t match the number or says invalid to weigh it or count it. And the clearance or sale items that don’t register as such. Call for help again. I hate them.
I have a really bad back. After I walk all over the store and unload my basket on the belt I really don’t feel like bagging them and and putting them back in the basket. So….when I walk up to the self checkout at Walmart I call over one of the attendants and say….I need you to scan and load all this for me. They always do. One of the cashiers told me awhile back that if asked they are supposed to.