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Kusimulkku ,

I love self-checkout. Faster, don’t have to rush because someone is waiting for me, don’t have to interact with people, can easily double check it had the correct price etc. They’re fantastic

SkyNTP ,

It’s faster until you need the human operator to keep coming over because the anti-theft sensors keep getting tripped up by false positive readings. Or you need to find some vegetable code that a normal cashier has memorized.

Self checkout is great when it’s done well, and total shit when poorly executed. And unfortunately, it’s not always just a matter of technology (which normally keeps improving); it’s often a matter of business model: sometimes customer convenience is really important, other times loss prevention (which creates frustration) is more important.

I’ve seen countless good self-checkout experiences backslide into crap experience because the business felt that a controlled client is more profitable than a convenienced client.

LifeOfChance ,

I hear this argument frequently but I’m curious how often does this happen to you where you need assistance? I’ve used SCO for as long as it’s been around and I could probably count on 1 hand missing some fingers where I needed help. Sure back in the day with the faulty scales that kept tripping it was rough but manageable. I don’t say any of this with malice I’m just curious if it’s you or if you speak of a lot of people. If it’s the later wouldn’t it just make sense that maybe all the people struggling may just have difficulties with technology as a whole and not just the SCO?

I truly mean no ill intent or hatred as I ask these types of questions as a way to learn and grasp the realities of others since no one person can know and see all.

numberfour002 ,

In the USA at least, any time you buy alcohol, tobacco, or any number of other random things that the retailer decides to flag as requiring ID, then you’ll need assistance from a cashier. Random things include razor blades, compressed air, some herbal supplements, spray paint, butane torches, or any of dozens of other items. Any time you accidentally scan something twice, you’ll need a cashier’s assistance. Any time something rings up the wrong price or any time the UPC doesn’t scan, you’ll need a cashier’s assistance. Also, if you’re buying gift cards, you may need a cashier’s assistance.

Also, different stores have different machines and different machines work better than others. Many places have ridiculously sensitive machines that freeze up if so much as a fruit fly farts on it. Some places use “AI cameras” to detect theft, which basically the algorithm for that seems to be “If (customer scanned something OR customer didn’t scan something) then (theft, so freeze and call cashier for assistance)”.

So, the frequency is highly variable. For some stores, I can usually manage to get by with almost never needing assistance. For others, it’s practically every visit.

ARg94 ,

This is an important point. The execution of self-checkout seems to vary widely. I have only experienced poor executions like you described. I think a scan and go system sounds great and I would interested to see one tested at a shop in my area.

SilverFlame ,

Fun fact: PLU’s (Product Lookup Units) are searchable on Google, though it’ll look like you’re just on your phone while at the register

bus_factor ,

At my grocery store the line for self checkout is longer than for the registers, so people would very much be waiting for you. And instead of the time the cashier takes to scan all your stuff being out of your control, they’ll judge you personally for being slow instead.

gamermanh ,
@gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

they’ll judge you personally for being slow instead.

If you’re slow because you’re old or disabled, it is what it is. I might even help if I’m up front.

If you’re tired or something but clearly trying, it is what it is, people judging you are the dicks.

If you’re on your cell phone, or not paying attention, or so incapable of reading that you have to call over a Walmart employee to tell you that yes, that says napkins on the monitor (actual thing I saw once and yes it’s cuz she couldn’t read, she said so): you deserve the judging.

Kusimulkku ,

Even with the same lenght line, in here you’d get through much faster because instead of lining up for the one register you’re lining up to several self-checkouts

bus_factor ,

But the people at the self checkouts do it at a fourth of the speed, so it cancels out. Plus the line for the self checkouts is four times as long anyway.

Although it’s not always easy to predict how long something takes. Self checkout is less vulnerable to someone paying in all nickels or having an issue with their food stamps. I’ll take that chance to not have to stand there and guess what species of banana I’m trying to buy, though.

Kusimulkku ,

Not here, people at the self check-outs go fast because they usually have less stuff and slower boomers are afraid of them anyway so they’ll be out of your way.

I’ll take that chance to not have to stand there and guess what species of banana I’m trying to buy, though.

Here you weight your vegetables, fruits, candies in the shop before you go to the checkout. Apart from Lidl which has either the cashier weighting them for you at the register or you’ll weight them at the checkout. But it’s the odd one out

bus_factor ,

I remember we weighed our own vegetables in Norway in the 90s. It stopped when they got the fancy registers which scanned barcodes and had a built-in scale.

Kusimulkku ,

I hope they don’t change it here. I like weighing my own stuff. Nicer to check how much I got and no need to remember what sort of tomatoes I got since the number is in the price tag. And no way for the cashier to fuck me over by weighing them as a pricier thing.

Spanish tomatoes for the price of Finnish ones? Get the fuck out of here! What do I look like, fucking Croesus??

bus_factor ,

You’ve presumably had registers with barcodes for several decades now, so I’m guessing your way of weighing produce is pretty safe.

tamal3 ,

I do not use self-checkout for several reasons, including what other people have said: i don’t get a discount, it’s taking someone else’s job, it’s annoying as fuck. Further, I use my own canvas bags, and that machine yells about the weight mismatch no matter what I try. I’d rather listen to nails on a chalkboard.

But i also shop for groceries 1 time per week, which means I’m buying beer, which means the self-checkout STILL requires somebody to help me. I end up standing around for longer than it takes to go through the regular line.

Anyway, the self-checkout lines generally see very loud usage in my NC town.

abhibeckert ,

a queue of people, waiting to use a self-checkout kiosk

That’s not how it works with the stores I frequent. Usually about half the self-checkout kiosks don’t have anyone at them.

I’d shop somewhere else if they took self checkout away. It’s so much faster.

wildginger ,

Half of our self check stands around town are empty too, mainly because they are seemingly perma broken

Blackmist ,

Self checkout is just fine, as long as you have enough of them.

Even better are the handsets you can take around the shop and scan as you go, as nobody wants to really be doing an entire trolley at the self checkout.

lud ,

Absolutely agree.

Here most self-checkouts are often called something like “express checkout” There is often a rule of max 15-20 items per customer (The rule is not enforced in any way, so you are just supposed to follow it for others sake)

barsoap ,

This seems to be an implementation issue. In my neighbourhood discounter, in Germany, there’s three self-checkouts and while they’re a bit small they also don’t do any of that weighing and whatnot bullshit: You scan your stuff, pay, done. The only thing they can’t do is apply best-before rebates.

There’s also always a manned till open (or at the very least, when things are slow, a worker hanging out in the vicinity). In practice if the queue is empty you go there, if you have lots of stuff you go there (because it’s bound to be faster as you can focus on packing while things get scanned), otherwise you have the choice to use self-checkout. Never had to stand in line for self-checkout, before that happens they open another manned till. What the self-checkouts do is keep small purchases away from the manned tills when they’re busy which is exactly what they’re good for. I

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

If they cannot apply best before rebates then the store needs to change the system of applying them. One of our local chains uses orange stickers with new barcodes for best before discounts so the self checkout scans and accepts the new barcode with a lower price.

barsoap , (edited )

I’m sure they will at some point but it just doesn’t seem to be a priority. It’s not like they closed the manned tills, and the total number of items is quite low. Basically only applies to the packaged meat section and then maybe two handful of items a day, if you don’t shop in the morning you’ll probably never see a sticker.

My guess is that with other items they run an ordinary rebate well before the best before to get rid of stale stock but meat spoils too fast for that.

Guntrigger ,

It is 100% implementation. In other countries there’s either a staff member watching over all the self checkouts to make everything go smoothly, or a kind of electronic gate that only let’s you leave after scanning a receipt. Usually the scanners are much more reliable and theres a usable UI. Plus a modicum of trust. Also thise hand scanners you can carry around the shop so you don’t have to do it at the end (although I think if seen some of them around now).

In the UK there’s usually the weight detection mechanic that slows things down 10x and no interactivity with the machine other than it loudly telling you you’re doing it wrong. You often need to ask for help anyway.

If it was a quick and easy experience the scheme wouldn’t fail.

barsoap ,

There’s no extra gate or dedicated staff member in my store only whoever’s at the till and if the self-checkout is busy they’re too busy to watch them.

What I did notice though is that they now put anti-theft tags on more stuff, e.g. the ones on big packages of sausages are new. But it’s still the same open beep gate at the end, which I actually triggered exactly once and that was when using the manned checkout, they’re older and cashiers need to deactivate the tags manually (and they missed my coffee), the self-checkout ones apparently do it reliably when you’re scanning the item.

Over time I think that’s probably where this is heading. The store still uses those very old EM fuses/amplifiers as anti-theft tags and of course ordinary barcodes, at some point the larger industry is going to switch to RFID for everything and every item will know whether it’s been paid for.

lightnsfw ,

My grocery store recently added these locks on the cart wheels, I’m not really sure how they work since i’ve only ran into them once so far but it went off as I was going through the detectors at the door and locked up the wheels so it wouldn’t roll. Idk what triggered it because I went through the manned checkout and they scanned everything. The girl at the self checkouts just ran over and unlocked it without even checking anything. It was pretty embarrassing though because it was busy and I was blocking the exit door with a bunch of people behind me for like 30 seconds because of that.

abhibeckert , (edited )

There’s no extra gate or dedicated staff member in my store only whoever’s at the till and if the self-checkout is busy they’re too busy to watch them.

The difference is other countries have much larger stores… probably because we have a more car centric culture.

My local store has about 40 checkouts - half of them self checkout. And there’s a competing store literally door (in the same building, with ain internal wall separating them), which sells all the same stuff and is the same size. In the middle of the day about half the checkouts are open and in the evenings all of them are open.

We do have smaller stores like yours, but almost nobody shops at those and even at peak hour a single checkout is enough.

Sales so slow at my local small store the checkout staff will literally check your bread for mould when they scan the barcode… They’re more expensive and the food is worse.

mvirts ,

As a customer, I 💕 self checkout: the great divide between fast and slow

makingStuffForFun ,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

It surely is. My hobby is to look at a person entering self checkout to remember who they are, as I enter the human checkout. I’m usually bagged, and paid whilst that person on the self checkout is still working through their groceries. The professional human is SO much faster than the self checkout.

It’s not always the case, but in the vast majority of times it is, so I choose speed over doing it myself.

mvirts ,

You can definitely tell some stores try to funnel people into self checkout by understaffing cashier positions sadly :( at the good ones I’m always at the cashier line as well

CucumberFetish ,

All of the local stores here have a mobile scanner which you take when you enter the shop. Then you walk around, take the item you want, scan it and bag it. At the self checkout you put away the scanner, register your card, pay and walk away. This is way faster than regular checkout if you have more than 3 items.

makingStuffForFun ,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

Deutschland?

CucumberFetish ,

Estland

makingStuffForFun ,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

Not so far. I want to visit one day!

CucumberFetish ,

Please do!

dirthawker0 ,

I really prefer self-checkout too. There was an initial year or two when the machines were kinda buggy and did that “unexpected item in bagging area” a lot, but you work around it: just never put your shopping bag on the scale. I scan fast and efficiently, and start bagging my stuff while the payment card is doing its thing. And when I bag my own stuff I can be sure the bread is going to be on top.

The only things I run into trouble with these days: 1. when the backend database doesn’t have the right info, like some produce type is entirely missing, or the only option is for organic(=more $ and you know darn well you’re not going to select that one). 2. Some stores don’t use the barcode on the fruit labels, and you scan the label by accident or out of habit because the other store does use those barcodes. Both situations need a clerk to clear them, and that’s 90% of the delay.

I wish I knew why Target is limiting to 10 items. It’s pretty annoying. I suspect that theft is what’s driving retailers away from it, rather than customers hating it.

TonyTonyChopper ,
@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

We have those by me still, I love them. Except when they check the weight of every item so you can’t have one person scan and another bagging.

ggppjj , (edited )

Hey, as someone who has a job installing and configuring and training independent stores with the NCR version, thank you for your basic ability to recognize cause and effect.

Genuinely, the number of people that hold something in their hands after scanning it and see and hear the thing telling them to put it down multiple times and then get mad because it won’t let them keep going while it is explicitly saying out loud to place the item down really makes me wonder about us as a species.

Like, I know that’s not how Walmart does it, because they turned off security as a consequence of only paying vendors on scan data. If a cart full of stuff goes out the door at Walmart, for the most part Walmart doesn’t pay for it either. Everyone else in the world needs to have some assurance against theft.

Anyways, have one person hand the other person stuff from the cart and the other person both scan and bag everything and you should get things done a bit quicker.

Edit: I know that traditionally, asking “wHy DoWnVoTe” is kinda a deathknell for the poster, but I am actually 100% open to hearing the criticism to this comment.

TonyTonyChopper ,
@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

Scanning something and putting it in a bag, rather than onto the platform next to the scanner, is not theft as far as I know. The machines are set up to nag you after 0.5 seconds of not placing an item on the scale. As a young person this is annoying, but for someone who actually needs to move more slowly it has to be infuriating

ggppjj ,

Well, mine are configured for 5 seconds. I can’t really program it to know what theft is, only to know that it should expect to see a weight change in the bagging area after an item is scanned.

lolcatnip ,

I wonder how many of the people who say self-checkout is unpaid labor will also try to shame people for not returning their shopping carts.

DrRatso ,

Yea, no. The supermarket I shop at, I just scan everything with my phone as I go, scan a QR code at self checkout and pay.

Worst case I have to wait 2 minutes for someone to do a verification scan (5 random items crom my bag) or wait for them to verify my age.

echodot ,

It absolutely infuriates me when I go into a store and this thing isn’t working or they don’t have it to begin with. And now I have to stand behind someone in line who wants to pay with 350 coupons all of which are out of date except for one, but they don’t know which one so now we’re going to have to wait while the cashier checks each one.

pigup ,

CROM!https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/34687d00-b7d0-451e-99ae-0a869a7fa099.png

Zink ,

Do we have Lemmy bots? This should be a Lemmy bot!

will_a113 ,

I know this isn’t the most popular opinion, but I love self-checkout systems when they’re available and used correctly. My local supermarket closed 2 10-item-or-less lanes and put 6 self-checkouts in the same space. I probably make 2 trips/week to the store for fewer than 10 items, and being able to check myself out has been a huge time saver. There are still another 8 lanes with cashiers for larger shopping trips. If the supermarket can avoid the race to the bottom thinking of "well, we replaced 2 lanes, maybe we can also replace the other 8), it’ll be a nice compromise.

Now contrast that with my local Home Depot, which typically has 1-2 cashiers MAX at any given time. They have turned the checkout process into a tedious pain in the ass, and I’ve more or less stopped shopping there as a result.

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

When self-checkouts were first rolled out, my friends and I loved them.

As twenty-something introverted nerds, it helped a lot when buying “embarrassing” things like condoms.

You didn’t have to have the checkout person giving you the stink-eye because they’re ultra religious or something.

Now, twenty-some years on, they’ve been abused to the point that some places they’re all that’s ever open, Target and Walmart seem to be the biggest offenders there. When there’s a line down three different aisles because the self-checked is so backed up, it’s defeated the purpose of creating “efficiency.”

However, I’ve noticed that about a lot of business practices lately. We’ve rounded the bend and they’re still doing things that aren’t actually producing efficiency anymore. Like staffing with nothing but a skeleton crew, so anytime someone calls out sick, everything falls apart because you’re short a person. Personal opinion, but if one person missing work wrecks everything, that’s not an efficient way to schedule people.

It’s proof that these MBA business school chucklefucks are just repeating the shit they tell each other ad nauseum, because when it comes to real-world results the results are abysmal and inefficient.

Badeendje ,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

No it’s probably the method that lands the most euros into the shareholders pockets, regardless of the effects in other places. Dollarstore in the US is this but then at an extreme, John Oliver did a nice piece on it.

can ,

Link to said piece

cogman ,

The Walmart self checkout layout is generally just bad. Because they are paranoid about theft, it’s setup to make it easy for the worker monitoring to make sure nothing fishy is going on. However, that means that the customers that want to checkout often can’t see what’s open.

This creates lines as the machines aren’t fully utilized.

But further, it’s often the case that for whatever reason these machines need an employee to interact. With 10 machines running at full capacity, that means longer waits for everyone because 3 machines are waiting for an id badge scan.

Walmart can solve some of these problems with more employees but that cost money.

felbane ,

Walmart is the only place where I’ve been stopped during the checkout process because the camera system thinks I’m stealing.

I’m a nerd that tries to minmax my self checkout by putting items in the cart or handbasket in a manner conducive to efficient removal. I’ll position the cart on my left, scanner in front, bags on right, and go as fast as the scanner will register the barcode and display the item on screen.

This works wonderfully everywhere else and I find it rather fun. I can count on Walmart to flag me at least once every trip (even though I slow down there for this reason), with the screen showing the flashing “POSSIBLE THEFT” message and video of me swiping an item quickly across the reader.

Maybe I should start parking the cart in the middle of the pathway like every other Walmart shopper and taking twenty seconds to dig every item out of the bottom of the cart before meandering around looking for where I set down the handheld scanner.

Hamartiogonic , (edited )
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

That’s just lean. If one employee is sick, everything falls apart. If the delivery of a specific part to the production line is delayed, everything stops.

It’s all very intentional, because it’s lean. Having buffers of any kind costs money, while making everything lean makes it cheaper to run your company. As usual, all of this is also reflected on profits and dividend income.

edit: splling and gremmar

nilloc ,

And it pushes the cost of redundancy into the backs of the workers who didn’t call in sick, and have to work more hours or more tasks in a day or risk being responsible for an underperforming store.

If it actually hurt monthly profits, they wouldn’t do it. The fact that it may hurt longer term profits—through delays, employee retention, or quality control—either isn’t understood by the C suite, or they just don’t care.

RattlerSix ,

Your store did it smart. My local grocery store has 8 self checkouts by one door and 8 more on the other end by the other door. Although there are 10 or more normal checkouts with human cashiers, Ive never seen more that two open at a time.

CheesyGordita ,

They’re a godsend at Costco when I have like 5 items and the normal lines are super long.

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

My supermarket implemented these barcode scanner you can carry in the store so that you can scan and put your stuff in your grocery bags in your cart as you go, as well as some scales so that you can also scan those items paid by weight, which you can then scan at the self-checkout terminal. They also spot-check every 4th scanners and scan for random items in the cart to make sure you actually added them to your list as a theft-deterrent.

It’s way faster and less finicky than dealing with the scale that checks if you added the item you just scanned (and complains often that something’s wrong).

I hope this kind of system will stay, it’s really nice going to a self-checkout terminal and pay with your bags already filled.

CarbonIceDragon ,
@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

when I worked at a grocery store for a bit (until a year go), we had that kind of system alongside the regular and self checkouts. It was interesting to see as I had never heard of it before, but it was very fast when it worked. That being said, almost nobody actually used it, and whenever the random checks happened it was almost always when someone had bought more items than usual (not sure if that actually triggers anything or if it was just coincidence) and the system for looking through everything was frustratingly slow for both me and the customers. I feel like the scanners are a great idea, but the theft-deterrent system for it could use a rethink, though Im not sure what exactly could best replace it

Rivalarrival ,

Meijers uses your own phone and their app as the scanner. GF loves it, but I find it’s more of a pain in the ass than it’s worth.

The only advantages I’ve seen are that you can use your own bags, and that nobody else uses it, so there are always 4 kiosks available to finalize your transaction.

ColeSloth ,

Yeah. I’m fine with using them at wal mart most of the time, but the grocery store where I load up at once every other week just went full send on self checkout and outside of being a pita dealing with so many bags and no place to set them without going into the cart with stuff you haven’t even scanned yet, some have a stupid conveyor belt after you scan and if you let like ten items get on it the damned machines locks you out until a worker comes by and unlocks it after the belt has been cleared off. Total piece of junk, but there’s now usually only 1 real person.

LordKitsuna ,

Is there something weird about how your Home Depot did it? I absolutely love the self-checkout at the Home Depots in my state. They all have the wireless hand scanners so I just pull my cart up, beep beep beep beep beep beep beep and off I go I fucking hated before they had self checkout at Home Depots it always took for fucking ever now I’m in and out regardless of whether I need one thing or 20 things

will_a113 ,

There are two in my area and both have the same problem: there will be a single non-pro bank of 8 self-checkout lanes, and then a bunch of empty lanes, one or two of which will have cashiers. Of the 8 self check-outs , one or two are always broken, so that leaves 6. Add in a bunch of large/heavy/bulky items that are hard to scan and now the line for self check-out is pushed back into the store, blocking multiple lanes and aisles. And as soon as you have certain items in your cart (molding/lumber by the LF, loose fasteners, etc.) you need an assistant to come help you anyway. Maybe it’s just the customers in my stores, but it’s just a terrible, slow, inefficient process.

LordKitsuna ,

Maybe it is just the customers in your area, mine is usually not backed up. I don’t have any problem with the various loose items there is always a barcode somewhere and if I don’t see one on the product I’ll take a picture of the one on the Shelf so I can just scan it right off my phone at the checkout¯_(ツ)_/¯

ruplicant ,
@ruplicant@sh.itjust.works avatar

i only check myself out whenever i shoplift

Sagifurius ,

Thinking of those two clowns at the hardware store, clearly following me around, very unsubtly acting like they were sure i was there to shoplift. They kept asking what i was looking (which was actually non specific christmas gifts) so I started throwing out meth ingredients, phosphorous, ammonia, neo citran daytime, sodium hydroxide, caustic soda, lye…I know that went right over their heads because they found me a gallon of pure crystal form dry lye. Anyways, she bagged half the stuff up without ringing it through. I’m sure i started a rumour in town, when they told their husbands bout the big biker looking dude asking for obscure chemicals. Took the lye though, that’s stuffs hard to find these days.

BigTrout75 ,

You mean selecting the non-organic item but you actually have organic one? Would be an “honest” mistake.

Nollij ,

What’s weird is how many refuse to let you just enter the code on the sticker. You have to search through their stupid menu to find it, and it may not be what you actually have

quams69 ,

I love self checkout, I can steal from corporations with plausible deniability

Lesrid ,

You’re obligated to do it too. They used to pay baggers and it was a separate job from cashiers. Now you play at both, super part time, and with all the money they’re saving they graciously raise the price on everything.

dangblingus ,

You can really tell these days who has never worked in a grocery store or restaurant before.

VonCesaw ,

SCO would be better if you got the same type of scanners as the regular registers

Putting everything from the cart onto a belt, and having access to more than 2-4 sets of bags (or a whole carousel at walmart!) without the dumb “did you scan this?” prompt would make me use SCO every single time. Trying to bag groceries in current SCO is miserable, and the sensors are usually so bad that you CANT EVEN REMOVE FULL BAGS when you need to fill another bag

MrBusiness ,

Lmao how’s Walmart so bad with their self check out but Sam’s club is easy? Hate using it at Walmart if I have more than a few items. At Sam’s I can load up my cart, scan and pay for everything on the app, person at the exit does a quick check, and I’m out.

b1g_bake ,
@b1g_bake@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve heard they try new tech at Sam’s before rolling it out to the masses at Walmart

GreatAlbatross ,
@GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk avatar

Some of the supermarkets here have self scanners with a belt, and a packing area big enough for 5-6 bags, it’s pretty awesome.
Aside from the odd age-restricted check, the only real problem is Mrs. Scoggins buying three items on it over the course of 20 minutes

mydude ,

I don’t like to interact with people, but I also don’t like to work for free for the owner of the chain, so I take one for the comrades and interact with the cashier.

ArmokGoB ,

If you work for free, you’re bound to make mistakes. Sometimes a pound of fish might get rung up as a pound of oranges.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I don’t see a problem with that

  • Sent from a country where oranges are like 1 dollar per kilo.
echodot ,

I bought a potato yesterday that should have cost 79p but it only rang me up for 30p as the scale was broken. I’m a proper little criminal me.

Nothing tastes better than ever so slightly erroneously discounted potatoes.

Guntrigger ,

Image

Nacktmull ,

a pound of fish

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_miGclPFGs

CrayonRosary ,

Grocery stores used to have you bring in a list of what you needed and the grocer picked it all out for you from behind the counter and packed it up. If you walk through a store and put your own groceries in a cart, you’re already doing free work for the owner of the store.

I wouldn’t change that, and I wouldn’t change self checkout. I prefer both. It’s not work if I’d rather do it.

(The first paragraph is a true story, but also a joke. Doing “work” is all relative.)

mydude ,

You do you, man.

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