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I don't.
Every single thing involves me getting the attention of the 1 guy who is responsible for minding like 10 of them.
I prefer self checkout since they have to hire at least 2 person that I have scanned everything instead of 1 person to do the scanning.
Or I get something for free.
Self check-outs at a fast food place (or boba tea etc.) are great because you can ensure that everything is correct and to your liking before making payment.
But they’re absolutely atrocious for any transaction where you’ve already picked out a half-dozen items or more.
Not to mention it takes twice as long because you're unloading an entire trolley onto a space that holds maybe 4 items, you're scanning, and you're bagging. There's no area to actually work and put all your shit, this doesn't even include the 4-12 times you need the person to come fix the broken machine, but that 1 person is busy fixing 4 other people's broken machines.
Something that would take you and a professional working together 5 minutes ends up taking 10+ minutes
I have absolutely never had that experience, it's always the opposite. I'm in, I'm out. The good thing is, if you don't like self-check you can go through the clerk line and vice versa.
If you have more than like three things get the hell out of the self-checkout lane. I'm so sick of being behind a person getting fifteen different kinds of produce that all need to be entered manually while I wait with my single gallon of milk.
Supermarkets in my area have had separate basket and trolley self-checkout areas for a good while. Basket ones are what you describe, trolley ones have enough space for a trolley on one side and about three or four times as much packing area on the other
Wow yeah I bought a six pack of Coke or something and the scanner picked up the UPC on the cardboard carrier AND one bottle, like fuck off you're charging me an extra bottle! Took a while for the attendant to stroll over and lackadaisically fix it at his leisure.
You can avoid this by just ringing up all produce as bananas.
What is the cheapest tomato? That's the tomato you ring up. Oops, silly old me, making a mistake anyone could make.
I actually would like to do that but I live in Canada and in February there cheapest tomato choosing is hard.
Red tomato might be a green house tomato and cost more than you might think.
This combined with the shit interface that truncates the names and is slow as hell makes it annoying.
In my experience (L.A.) the tomatoes each have stickers on them, with either a scan code or a number code. But you're right the whole thing is a PITA
Carrots are cheaper.
Advantage: when somebody is taking so long it seems like they're figuring out their taxes, you're not stuck behind them because the one line goes to multiple stations. At least where I shop.
Wild guess, you're American? Because every story I hear about self checkouts in the US is this. Meanwhile in actual first world countries where they are modern systems you very rarely have any of these issues. Even my experiences in Croatia and Spain from 20 years ago had solved most of this (and please, I'm not dissing them. I'm a Swede and my experience is just that Scandinavia is on the forefront of stuff like this.) I haven't had to grab the attention of a worker for so many years, and from what I see with other shoppers it's the same for them. The workers seem bored if anything because they so rarely have to help someone even with one person minding twenty of them at the larger stores.