Posted on 12/21/2017 6:00:08 AM PST by mykroar
I hate to see people replaced by machines but I went the other day and the girl looked over every piece of merchandise, making comments on how cute this or that was. The old couple in front of me bought 20 or so Christmas tree ornaments and she checked them all out on all sides.
Kinda makes you wonder - cashier quality has been going down in the last year or two and now they’ll be replaced - timing - make you hate cashiers - make you glad to welcome machines
Yup - someday - facial recognition, quickly scanned items and payment methods. You walk in, a robot will greet you by name, the cart will make suggestions based on prior purchases, you’ll walk out with payment scanned as you walk out.
Or if you’re in/near a city, just order from home and drones will deliver.
Drones won’t work out here in the boonies. People will be shooting them down for fun. Moving target practice.
Seems like Fresh and Easy tried that model.
I think it’s high time for a circuit court judge to step in, have these things removed, and force Walmart to pay the minimum wage to incompetent employees./s
Yeah, well, they need something to take the edge off of the hardship of buying two carts full of EBT food.
I should say: his iphone WATCH.
The only thing I’ve seen is that management headquarters is in Hoboken, NJ
Well,for one, ex-Wal-Mart cashiers on the unemployment rolls. Not all technical innovations are necessarily good. I push more buttons than I want to already. When I buy something,I would rather go to a human being who gets paid to push buttons.
I always had problems with self check out. Don’t bother with them anymore. Wastes my time.
I like the self checkout. Now if the could get rid of the customers, it’d be heaven.
It will go the way of the Express Marts. When there is a problem you want someone there to fix it.
I’ve never had good luck shopping through a self-checkout lane. I was in one store and watched some woman with a load go through the self-checkout. Half way through she started throwing stuff back into the cart and went looking for a manned checkout.
I say bring back the 10 items or less lane.
My local WalMart here in Maine has a few of those so-called “self checkout lanes,” and each one is manned by two or three people in yellow vests helping customers who are having problems with the self checkout.
Those 3 - 6 employees could be manning an “old fashioned” 10 items or less lane.
**It was absurd to see 20 checkout lines, but only two or three ever in operation.**
I’ve never been afraid to jump up on a counter and yell
“HEY! WE NEED MORE CHECKOUT LANES OPEN! PEOPLE ARE BACKED UP CLEAR TO THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT!”
Sometimes they will open more, sometimes they don’t.
The sad part is that the employees are already used to all sorts of bizarre displays by their customers, so they don't even notice. The people in line appreciate the diversion though.
Take a look at the competition Amazon vs. Walmart. As a behemoth larger than Amazon, Walmart has to be able to counter Amazon’s tactics. IIRC, Amazon already has a cashierless store open. It’s walk in, shop, walk out. No scanning. Walmart continues to generate profits while Amazon is an example of over exuberance on the part of investors. Amazon, AFAIK, has more labor issues. Walmart recently made a significant investment that made stocking more efficient. My bets on Walmart to win especially since they haven’t done dumb ass stuff like buy a newspaper.
3.5 million more unemployed cashiers would just be building an even bigger Communist movement IMHO.
True dat!
Me too. And the thing is that worked in retail for many years including at a large grocery store with experience running a checkout and also worked at Target and “We Be Toys” during the Christmas season a few years back.
So you would think that I should be good at the self-checkout, knowing how to scan and bag efficiently. But no. Every time I’ve tried to use the self-checkout at my Giant grocery store, invariably something goes wrong and a clerk has to come over and do something to get the damned thing working again. Plus, the self-checkouts are badly designed and hard to use. And I hate that automated voice constantly telling me – “scan your item, remove your item, please remove your item, you need to scan your next item, you didn’t scan your next item yet, are you done, please pay for your item” when I’m not even half way through taking things out of my cart. UG!
If I only have two or three items that can be easily scanned and not something like produce that has to be weighed, I might use the self-checkout but most of the time, I’ve found it quicker to go through a regular checkout line. I do however like to bag my own groceries. Too often the checkout person will try to put all the heavy items, say cans into one flimsy plastic bag and all the bulky boxed items into another. It’s not the weight of the bag but the fact they tend to break by the time I load them into the car.
I often pay cash.
What about customers who do so?
I often do use my credit card, and I DO NOT have a cell phone & I refuse to have one.
I pay cash especially when I am shopping for a neighbor.
I often pay cash-—NO CELL PHONE & I refuse to get one.
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