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Self-checkout machines now ask for tips in latest squeeze on customers
Fox2 ^ | 5-15-23 | Emily Robertson

Posted on 05/20/2023 9:39:50 AM PDT by dynachrome

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To: Chad C. Mulligan
I refuse to use the damned things. If I do the work, I want a discount!

I never had that attitude about self-checkout. For me, it is a godsend. Gets me out of the store much quicker without having to queue behind people who always seem to be fumbling for methods of payment after everything is checked through (you mean I have to pay for all this!) and then dealing with the mentally challenged bag boy who always seems to put my heavy cans of tomatoes on top of my fragile produce.

I never have an issue scanning my own groceries and bagging them properly. Then I swipe the payment and head for the parking lot.

In and out. That's what it's all about.

41 posted on 05/20/2023 2:28:17 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,181,324 Truth | 87,174,230 Twitter)
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To: Bulwyf

The .10 cent cost charged for bags is I believe a way of buying protection from the democrat party. I think that money goes to the democrats. The bags are still being used.
Just extra grift money.


42 posted on 05/20/2023 5:36:18 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Howie66
Howie...Howie...Howie...

Much as I hate the idea, paying for my burger before it's prepared where I cannot see what's going on??

I'm tipping them. Then I make an imaginary 'Sign of the Cross'! ;)

43 posted on 05/20/2023 5:44:08 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

If I’m doing the work will I get to be employee of the month?


44 posted on 05/20/2023 6:29:25 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: dynachrome

Maybe it’s them tipping the customer. Could be ….


45 posted on 05/20/2023 7:08:56 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored !)
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To: dynachrome

Eh, no thanks. Unless the kiosk can bring things to my table, I ain’t tipping.


46 posted on 05/20/2023 7:11:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: DCPatriot

I’ll make the Sign of the Cross and then imagine tipping them. :-)


47 posted on 05/20/2023 8:27:41 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: dynachrome
You want me to leave a tip for a machine?

How long have you been delusional?

48 posted on 05/20/2023 8:32:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Unless the kiosk can bring things to my table, I ain’t tipping.

At a Thai restaurant in Garden Grove, CA, they did have waitresses, but when the food came it was on a self driving cart. Kinda bizarre ... I suppose it was inspired during the Covid Wars, as a way to make it appear that no one was touching your food.

49 posted on 05/20/2023 8:56:08 PM PDT by Tellurian (To the Dems, the middle class is a festering wound. They want it amputated.)
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To: dynachrome

Tip a machine?

Nah.


50 posted on 05/20/2023 8:58:13 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: dynachrome

“ William Michael Lynn, a consumer behavior and tip culture professor”

A tip culture professor.
Guy needs to learn how to code.


51 posted on 05/20/2023 9:02:40 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Wuli
“self check out” is the name I have chosen for the franchise business of assisted suicide.

Canada has legalized it.

You just get all set up and push the button when ready.

The coroner and undertaker are both in house employees.

52 posted on 05/21/2023 1:11:46 PM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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