fiasconva
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I've found out that the hardest part of self checkout is trying to get those stupid bags on the hangers open. I hate trying to get those stuck together things open!
Self Checkout
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I believe that if a store wants you to self check out and bag the things you buy from them, you should be entitled to a discount on everything you purchase since they don't want to pay a person to do the work. I tell all the cashiers that they should figure out a way to disable the self check out stations because eventually they will be un employed.
I use both.
It all depends on which is going to be faster. Over the last few years more and more folks are choosing the self checkout. The result is the speed of those lines is sometimes no faster and in some cases slower than an unmotivated millennial.
If someone has a lot of produce or some other items that require a “look up” function, you are going to be waiting forever. Don’t get me going on people with a folder full of coupons.
We all seem to be in such a hurry these days that we go with the option that is the quickest and easiest.
I believe we will all be doing self checkout on almost everything before too much longer whether we want to or not.
It all depends on which is going to be faster. Over the last few years more and more folks are choosing the self checkout. The result is the speed of those lines is sometimes no faster and in some cases slower than an unmotivated millennial.
If someone has a lot of produce or some other items that require a “look up” function, you are going to be waiting forever. Don’t get me going on people with a folder full of coupons.
We all seem to be in such a hurry these days that we go with the option that is the quickest and easiest.
I believe we will all be doing self checkout on almost everything before too much longer whether we want to or not.
Capt Steve
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Not hardly...
"If a retail operation is making an average net profit of 5% on sales, then that employee has to generate $500 an hour in sales, every hour they work, just for the employer to afford to pay them."
No retail operation can come even close to keeping the doors open unless they are generating an average 20 - 25% profit margin throughout the store. Years ago I worked retail for the old Boat US chain and 30 -35% was their target and many of the operations reached that goal on a regular basis.
Retail is a lot more profitable than you might think even with all of the employee costs and the losses from shrink {theft}.
"If a retail operation is making an average net profit of 5% on sales, then that employee has to generate $500 an hour in sales, every hour they work, just for the employer to afford to pay them."
No retail operation can come even close to keeping the doors open unless they are generating an average 20 - 25% profit margin throughout the store. Years ago I worked retail for the old Boat US chain and 30 -35% was their target and many of the operations reached that goal on a regular basis.
Retail is a lot more profitable than you might think even with all of the employee costs and the losses from shrink {theft}.
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You are confusing gross profit and net profit.
smithman 10
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Self checkout
Interesting thread.
Some other thoughts on automation, self checkout and the like.
It seems to me that as more and more machines and devices perform tasks the result is less person to person interaction (that means talking with one another!).
This is a bad thing IMHO, as in order to get along in this life it is still helpful if one becomes socialized and used to interacting, working with and getting along with other folks.
I am reminded of a recent trip to the gas station where a newly installed pump offered me a selection of news and several other options of things to view while I filled my tank, at pretty good volume by the way. Thank goodness there was an off button, which I quickly punched!
Not near as pleasant as it used to be chewing the fat with the neighborhood gas station owner, his son or employee while they pumped your gas, cleaned the windows, checked oil and so on.
Now I know you guys are going to say that if they hired someone to do this the gas would cost more, much more. Maybe so, but I am willing to pay for it still.
Bottom line, IMHO every so-called advance that diminishes real person to person contact damages society and the quality of our lives in general.
Significantly. Again, just my take on it and I realize some folks like not having to deal with other people. People, as we all know, who sometimes can be quirky and difficult to deal with. But infinitely more interesting than a gosh darn talking gas pump!
Interesting thread.
Some other thoughts on automation, self checkout and the like.
It seems to me that as more and more machines and devices perform tasks the result is less person to person interaction (that means talking with one another!).
This is a bad thing IMHO, as in order to get along in this life it is still helpful if one becomes socialized and used to interacting, working with and getting along with other folks.
I am reminded of a recent trip to the gas station where a newly installed pump offered me a selection of news and several other options of things to view while I filled my tank, at pretty good volume by the way. Thank goodness there was an off button, which I quickly punched!
Not near as pleasant as it used to be chewing the fat with the neighborhood gas station owner, his son or employee while they pumped your gas, cleaned the windows, checked oil and so on.
Now I know you guys are going to say that if they hired someone to do this the gas would cost more, much more. Maybe so, but I am willing to pay for it still.
Bottom line, IMHO every so-called advance that diminishes real person to person contact damages society and the quality of our lives in general.
Significantly. Again, just my take on it and I realize some folks like not having to deal with other people. People, as we all know, who sometimes can be quirky and difficult to deal with. But infinitely more interesting than a gosh darn talking gas pump!
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