Posted on 01/09/2024 9:33:12 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
“don’t trust the accuracy of programmed prices in the system”
exactly! I often pick items up that are on sale. The Clerk scans quickly while I unload/load my cart and it is difficult to verify the correct price. I take my time at self checkout double checking the listed items/price before i pay. (Don’t get behind me at check out if your goal is quick check out)
Good, I hate these things. Yet one is basically forced to use them due to lack of cashiers. Every day I don’t go buy a sledgehammer and smash one is a good day.
Yes, a single queue to multiple queues is much more efficient than individual queues.
I will not use self checkout except when all the human cashiers are wearing masks. I reject masking at a higher level than I reject self checkouts. If there is a human cashier without a mask on, that cashier will get preference over a masked cashier.
LOL probably scans for bald spot and ear hair.
Got a gripe with Gen-X’ers in general? Compared to folks from other generations, I find Gen-X’ers to be mostly based, reasonable folk. I guess your experience differs?
I disagree. I generally see one employee per 4-6 self checkout stands. I only go to self checkout regardless of how much I’m buying. I really enjoy the process.
Where do you shop?
The only grocery stores I’ve ever seen that take the groceries out to the car and put them in the trunk for you are the military commissary stores. I have never seen a civilian store do this. Oh, they will if asked, but it isn’t routine practice.
I horribly misspoke. I meant Gen Z’s. >P
This seems to be a regional thing.
When I lived in California and Texas, the grocery stores hired teenagers and handicapped to check out and bag my groceries.
When I visited family in New York and Florida, I had to bag my own groceries. In New York, I had to buy the bags, too.
-PJ
Some of these things seemed like such a good idea to the autistic bean-counters. Hospital spent at least several hundred thousand dollars for robot to deliver meds from pharmacy and stuff to lab, replacing kid making min wage. Was a good idea until robot knocked over old lady breaking her hip. I wonder if settlement was more than cost of robot.
I use them all the time, and if there is a heavy item an employee usually comes over to scan it with his/her handheld scanner.
Considering the number of rude people who ignore the limit in the express lanes, I find self-check out to be faster.
If it’s a big order, or the store is not busy, which is when I always try to shop, OI like the checkout.
I do like that method as well. Go to the next available cashier. Especially since I have a *gift* of picking the slowest moving line in the store. The minute I get in it, guaranteed, something goes wrong with the casher register or the customer is a problem whining about something.
I enjoy self-checkout - it’s much faster, lines (if any) are shorter and I get out the door more quickly. Leave it to the thieves and their left-wing enablers to screw that up too.
They would be better off to put that guard in a cashier position. Less shoplifting and better service.
And what is with the Kroger stores who cannot seem to have enough guards for the self-checkout areas? So, they close two-thirds of the stations, and everybody waits in a line, no matter what they do.
I will wait in line for the cashier. It is often faster.
It is going to be a mix going forward, with a few stores being human only.
We had a Walmart Marketplace (just groceries) that tried to go all self checkout. It lasted maybe six months. Word is that sales dropped off over 25%. Some people just refuse to self checkout.
Locally (NM) our stores really try to push self checkout with only two or three cashiers open with about a dozen self checkouts available. We recently traveled to Texas and shopped at H.E.B. Love that store. While they do have maybe half a dozen self check outs, they had a good 8 cashiers open as well.
Had someone in retail management tried to tell me that it costs the store more to fill orders for people who order online and pickup. I just rolled my eyes and said ‘Really, how much do pickup customers cost you in shoplifting losses?’
I love self checkout, since I don’t have to deal with stupid, tattooed cashiers.
I would be very happy if slow people yakking on their cellphones were not allowed to self checkout
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