This is bananas, and this is also bananas... It's odd that all this produce is bananas. Oh well, I'm not trained to tell the difference.
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"rethinking" doesn't mean what you think it does.
I love self-checkout. The line moves much faster. But it is important to learn which machines work well and which ones are most glitchy. Kind of like learning which lane has The World's Slowest Checkout Clerk.
Then you choose that one.
No, when I see she's working I definitely go to self-check.
How do you expect me to tell the difference between organic lionsmane mushroom and a banana?
I’m gonna be so real, I prefer self-checkout whenever possible. The “employee discount” is just an occasional bonus
Yeah, so I hit the grocery store two or three. Times during the week, usually getting stuff for dinner that night, fresh veggies, meat, that sorta thing. It makes sense with how my mornings lay out, and I prefer small trips. I'm at a point where I have this shit down by rote. Yes, there's some hiccups, like watermelon needing an employee because people use watermelon to steal apparently, but I kind of program in to the whole operation.
Larger orders, I'll hit an employee so I can bag while they scan.
At the end of the day, it's always about efficiency, and so it's generally best for me to self checkout.
I don't.
Every single thing involves me getting the attention of the 1 guy who is responsible for minding like 10 of them.
- item won't scan ...
- you have alcohol
- you have a thing with a discount sticker on it
- item has 2 upcs on it for some reason and the first one scans and is like twice the cost of the thing
- I accidently pick the wrong tomato type and to fix it I need to get someone's a attention
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I accidently pick the wrong tomato type and to fix it I need to get someone’s a attention
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.
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Carrots are cheaper.
I prefer it if I have like 8 items or less.
Anything more and I cant be bothered. Especially if it's groceries and there are codes to enter instead of barcodes to scan and weights to take.
Self-checkout or not, minimum wage is not even remotely enough to expect cashiers to be anti-theft enforcement.
One time, i scanned all of my items and had to wait for someone to check id because it included alcohol. After they unlocked the machine, I paid and left. Turned out that none of the scans registered after the first alcohol item, so i got a bunch of freebies. I'd normally give a shit, but this is how well they trained me and how well their system worked.
The process is perfectly designed to give you the results you got.
-Demming, or someone like him
Many moons ago, I stopped by the art supply store with my stepmom to get some colored twine. We picked up 2 rolls, and were basically forced to do self checkout. I watched her scan each one, but only one actually registered. The price for a single roll was also more than double the cost if she had bought it on Amazon, so the total when checking out was within a reasonable ballpark. Once we got to the car, I pointed it out, and she apparently had no clue, but was annoyed enough not to go back and pay for the second.
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It is 1866. Stores are making record profits while complaining.
It is 1940. Stores are making record profits while complaining.
It is 2026. You get the picture.
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I have an issue with telling fancy mushrooms from the cheap brown mushrooms that are coincidentally 1/5 of the price. Its a known problem and it should probably disqualify me from a job checking out produce. Oh well, I guess I'll just do my best.
My grocery store definitely did this on purpose: They sell Broccoli (organic) and Broccoli crowns. The self checkout menu lists the former at the end of a page, without showing the latter until you hit Next page. Organic turns out to be 2.5x the price by pound of crowns.
If not banana, why banana priced?
I did accidentally steal something the other day when one item stuck to the back of an identical one so I thought I was getting 6 but accidentally got 8 instead.
Just laid them flat on the counter then scan scan scan scan scan. Didn't even notice until I got home.
The complaining is an important part of the theatrics.
I used to work with a very wealthy man. He owned a very successful side business and had some very good customers. He would tell me about how he would exaggerate all of his complaints about how much money he's going to lose when something or other happens. And I saw him do it to people at work. One of his major skills was playing the victim. I lost all hope of feeling bad for business owners once I realized that was a thing. Meanwhile, he has a huge house on the palisades outside of New York City and all his kids went to private schools from preschool to college.
When he left, he tried to give me his bill oRiley CD collection.
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