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PixelProf ,

I almost exclusivity self-checkout for groceries, and it had drastically sped up my checkout time as most people in my area opt to use traditional checkout and the stores are still keeping lots of lanes open (just closing the express lanes). The last 3 times I’ve used a non-self checkout, each time I was double charged for items or didn’t have reduced prices applied and didn’t notice because I was bagging.

Aermis ,

Same but mostly because I like to scan each item and see it associated with the price on the screen before adding another item

PixelProf ,

That too, and I can really efficiently manage the items going into bags given I backpack my groceries and want pretty specific configurations…

MashedTech ,

Oh my god, YES. With the cashier I feel rushed and packing is a mess…

rabiddolphin ,
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Don’t forget to sweep the floors and bring in the carts

MashedTech ,

I use self checkout on the machines that don’t weigh what you buy. Those work so well. The kind that have to weigh what you buy are slow and they always have an issue when I put items in bulk on them. Like two cans of beer if I don’t set both of them down at once it just breaks down and tells me I have the wrong weight in any configuration.

PixelProf ,

Totally agree. I forgot about those, as I’ve only encountered the weighing ones once in the past very long time and it was a mess, I can totally get hate if weighing ones are the only experience with them.

rabiddolphin ,
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I want my goods squeezed out of a cold unfeeling robot’s bowels right into my home just as long as I don’t have to see another filthy human because I use linux and think I’m a fucking cyborg

Dusktracer ,

Relatable.

gladflag ,

I hate self checkout because they make the system frustrating as if they don’t trust you. Which they don’t. So they make it weigh items and it yells if you’re too slow putting the item in the bagging area.

If you don’t trust me to do it. Pay someone else to do it.

avater ,
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Problem is they save on the humans so you have to do their work too but you don’t see any price reduction or benefit for doing so, and that is on top of all the usability issues…

Smoogs ,

It gets better, they’ve converted the Walmart tech help for the self checkout into sales people for their master card now.

shea ,

some terminals have 2 or even 3 cameras pointed at you, displaying on the screen so you know for sure they don’t trust you. they’re probably scanning your face nowadays too so they track individual purchase history

bluewing ,

I think self checkout works for one or two items. But not much more than that. I don’t want to have two or three things to checkout and be stuck behind someone with a cart full.

But If I have much more than that, an “old fashioned” checkout is a lot better.

Crack0n7uesday ,

I just watched a comedy special where the comedian calls them the “the shoplifter lanes”.

Fedizen ,

Making customers bag their groceries for free is not a “cost saving measure” its a “cost shifting measure”

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