Self Checkout

[Salty RI]

I tried using the hand scaners once, it was working ok until I got to the fruits and veggies, it wouldnt scan the scale, a few of the workers tried and they couldnt get it to work either, never tried using them again. [emoji46]

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[Salty RI]

A few times when I hit the English button it started speaking to me in Spanish [emoji46] good thing I still remember some of my HS Spanish.

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[Maddog 521]

I wonder when THEY are going to ask/demand THEIR customers to clean the bathrooms, mop the floors, stock the shelves and wash the windows. It's a strange time we live in.

 

[steelslaver]

At the big boxes you get a choice, a dumb machine or a dumb human.

Our only grocery store usually has lots of checkers, most of whom are great people.

 

[Salty RI]

A store near us has a robot that goes around the store and looks for spills.

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[oneounceload]

I wonder when THEY are going to ask/demand THEIR customers to clean the bathrooms, mop the floors, stock the shelves and wash the windows. It's a strange time we live in.

In many grocery stores, the vendors and suppliers stock the shelves, especially the soda/beer and snack aisles - those vendors also come in and do the inventory

 

[pharmer]

I like 'em. I have a "MiniWally" less than a mile from the house. I can pull in, get a bunch of bananas, drop them on the scale, drop in the cash (coins take forever to drop for some reason) and I'm out. Took me 10 minutes to pay for my gas yesterday because the Inbred family ahead of me was deciding what 50 cent pies to get while in line. Another small advantage, I can get apples, pears, mangoes, avocados loose, put them on the scale and drop them in one bag unlike cashiers who need everything in individual bags. Joe

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

When you are in line with 4 bottles of citrate of magnesia and a twin pack of Fleet enema you do appreciate the anonymity of the self check out.....

 

[DWalt]

A store near us has a robot that goes around the store and looks for spills.

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Apparently the latest thing is robotic shelf restocking and robotic floor cleaning during the wee hours of the morning. Wal-Mart has been doing it at some stores for several years.

 

[BearBio]

I don't use them. I tried at Home Depot and it didn't recognize my change nor return it. Then it wouldn't take my bills, then the "attendant" (?) was an idiot who left me to help a cute chick. Left the $30 purchase sitting there and walked out. At the local Safeway, I know which checkers are "talkers" (Hate to stand in line while they are gabbing), and which are idiots! I come to shop, not to talk!

 

[Just another 22 shooter]

I haven't read all the posts here, but has anyone complained about pumping their own gas? My first job, other than working on the farm , was pump jockey at my cousin's Skelly Station.Pumped gas, cleaned windshields, checked oil, fixed flats, changed burnt out headlights. After the state allowed self service, most stations offered full, or self service. But even that is a long ago memory now. Any "full service" stations left out there?

 

[LVSteve]

One thing I know is that you are rolling the dice with any machine when trying to use cash. I always use cards, the machines screw up more with cash.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Yes, always use cards with the machines.
CREDIT CARDS!
Laws in place give consumers lots of protection when using Credit Cards.
Way to go Congress!
That’s one in a row!

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

To my way of seeing things, we have two big grocery chains in my area. [We actually have five or six or more, but I discounted the higher-priced ones, the membership ones, and a couple of others which I may have to eventually investigate further.] One has self-checkout, one used to but doesn't any more. I almost always use self-checkout when available, because when I offer $21.18 for a $15.68 purchase, I never get a bewildered look from the machine. I don't even always get it from a cashier.

As it happens, the chain without self-checkout has a store closer to me, and generally has better prices on what I consider staples, so that's my first choice. I use both.

 

[straightshooter1]

I might go into a Walmart once a year, so I don't care what they do.

I recently fired the local Home Depot as my "Hardware Store" because they not only don't have many, if any, humans to do the check out, but they seem to have few, if any, clerks in the aisles to assist me. I ain't walking around those big stores looking for help to spend my money.

So now it's Lowes and not the self-service check outs.

And some of you actually eat in those fast-food places?

No, I'm not really a grumpy old guy, I just want to be pampered.

Bob

 

[BC38]

The Super-Walmart where I shop for my elderly mother used to be a checkout nightmare. With my bad hips, waiting in line for as much as 20+ minutes was often too much. I would have to leave my spot in line and go sit down for 5-10 minutes and then get back in line and hope for the best, rinse and repeat.

A few weeks back they decided to go self-checkout in a huge way. Now, there is zero wait time to checkout. My old, painful hips love it! I did have one problem a week back with the self-checkout scale adding ~2 pounds to my weighed items. Fortunately, I noticed it and they moved me to a different machine to finish my order. They could not fix the faulty scale in real time.

Well, do you think they took that self-checkout with the faulty scale out-of-service until it could be fixed? Nope!

I tried to warn the next customers they sent to that self-checkout, but apparently they didn't speak or understand English.

Betcha' that if that scale was subtracting two pounds from every transaction instead of adding two pounds it would have been taken out of service toot sweet!

 

[pawngal]

I like self checkouts. I hate getting 6 or 7 bags for 8 items. And hate having fresh produce like bananas or peaches banged around with canned goods or bread squashed by anything heavier.

 

[old bear]

For 3 - 4 small items I prefer self-scan units, until I get stuck behind some old fool, Such as myself, who has no idea how to operate one.

 

[TTSH]

... I prefer self-scan units, until I get stuck behind some old fool, such as myself, who has no idea how to operate one.

Ahhhh... that would be me (causing the delay) at one particular Northeast regional market chain where I only "Stop & Shop" for certain specific items for dear old Mom that I can't get elsewhere. The self-service machines there hate me... ... and so does that damned crazy robot that follows me around like a stalker.

 

[Salty RI]

I hate that robot, its always in my way.[emoji316]

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