I LOVE THE SELF CHECKOUT LANES !!!!!!!
there are times I don’t WANT to ‘interact”...HA! and its sooo fast. the only problem is the register shouts out what goes through..ha
“Put your bannanas in the bag!”
“Put your wine in the bag!”
“Put your whipped cream in the bag!”
“Put your prophylactics in the bag!”
Ha.
This should help unemployment...a little. Good idea. A little more human contact is good. Unless it’s from some drippy 17 year old with no human contact skills.
Since when does a grocery store care about human contact?
Did they care when the scanners were installed? No.
They’re getting ripped off, at least in some stores, so they’re taking them all out so they’re not accused of discrimination.
YEA!! I’ve been refusing to use them since they put ‘em in. Every time they try to drag me over to self-check, I tell ‘em I’m refusing as a matter of principle. I also refuse to shop at Fresh and Easy because they don’t have checkout.
How much do you want to bet that the unions had something to do with this??
Safeway/Ralph’s has been doing it for a year now, yet people avoid it.
Why? Everytime you place the grocs in the bag, the stupid machine tells you to remove it and the comedy cycle begins. That’s why there are “technicians” close-by whose sole purpose is to rescue the poor saps who use those e-cashiers.
I say that’s it’s boring for the girl or guy running the master console. ...just standing there...pushing buttons...
Enterprising young partiers around here were ringing up six packs of soda and putting the equivalent weight in beer on the scale . . .
Will they also be getting rid of their ATM machines? /s =.=
It’s pretty hard for me to maintain “human contact” with Albertsons since they closed down all their stores in my city.
Good! I loathe those things in all store and refuse to use them.. A good cashier can ring through about three too four 20 items or less customers to the self service one. Clerks running reigisters are a good investment. People get mad at a computer slowly giving instructions refusing to let your check out for this or that reason and toss their items down and walk out. As well if a store has sufficent clerks at checkouts too keep lines moving at a reasonable rate then again people don’t get mad and just walk out. A win/win is simply having good cashiers and enough full service lines to keep the lines moving.
Invest in Albertsons and get rich.
What weirded me out the other day was hearing a voice say “You can avoid waiting in the line by self-checking” at COSTCO. I’ve been going there for years and didn’t even notice the new self-check lanes they had installed.
Following Obama’s Economic plan? .... Next to get rid of those evil ATM’s? Sometimes I just want to run into the store and buy my 6-pack of beer and leave not chit-chat with the cashier and wait for them....Good thing I live no where near an Albertsons!
My reply was, " You train employees, you serve customers"
I refuse to use the damn things.
I might use them if they came with a 5% discount on my total bill for the effort and inevitable annoyance.
The truth is that they are getting rid of them because of theft and labor it costs to get the customer throught the process. It isn’t about serving the customer that is just their spin.
Until they teach their cashiers that “Have a nice day,” does NOT mean “Thank you,” they’d be better off discouraging human contact with these people.
It doesn’t matter to me... I don’t use them unless I have only one or two items. One reason is I like to use my own bags and the stupid machines have trouble dealing with them. And some times they have trouble dealing with stuff anyway and it takes forever to get someone to help me. They were a great idea, if they were smart. But since they aren’t smart it seems like more hassle than they are worth.
“We just want the opportunity to talk to customers more,” Albertsons spokeswoman Christine Wilcox said. “That’s the driving motivation.”
I wonder if “talk to customers more” at Albertons will mean what it does at Safeway checkout, namely begging money from customers for Safeway CEO Steve Burd’s charity du jour?