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Your thoughts on self check outs?
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500SNW
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I use them all the time....at several different stores. The only one I have ever had problems at are the WalMart self-checkouts. They have a habit of taking your money...then after it disappears you get a message onscreen that there isn't enough money to give you change to complete the transaction. Then...you have to wait on the clerk to respond...then they have to call the MOD to bring a wad of cash...then you get your change. It has happened to me three times at WalMart now...never anywhere else. So far I have been lucky and gotten my change.
RGVshooter
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As long as the person standing in front of me at the self checkout is literate enough to understand how to use the thing then I have no problems using self checkout. It's fast and easy if you have 2 or 3 items...
Murphy's Law
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At 72, I don't like them and don't use them period. I like the human interaction even if it takes a bit longer at times.
The way I look at it, is that if I wanted a job, I would ask for an application
There may be no discount, but lowering labor cost most certainly keeps prices from rising as fast. I'm sorry, but like I don't see it as my job to "save" anyone but me and mine when I'm carrying a pistol, I also don't see it as my job to save somebody else's job . . .
LVSteve
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There is something in the way I transfer goods from the scanner to my bag that drives these things nuts. The electronic bitchin' Betty starts bleating about "Unexpected item in bagging area" or "Please place item in bagging area". WTH?!?! What do you THINK I'm trying to do?
I was told that these systems expect you to DRAG the item sideways off the scanner towards the bagging zone. Well, maybe I'm a little stronger and less idle than the designer, because I don't drag what I can lift.
I was told that these systems expect you to DRAG the item sideways off the scanner towards the bagging zone. Well, maybe I'm a little stronger and less idle than the designer, because I don't drag what I can lift.
I'm another one who feels that if you do self checkout, the store should discount your purchase. I don't use them unless the cashier lines are long and I'm in a hurry (which is rare).
I’ve only tried those auto checkouts once, to my recollection, and found it bit confusing. Lack of familiarity, I guess.
But my local supermarket here in Oregon, Fred Meyer, has just introduced an app for smartphones that apparently lets you scan and bag your stuff as you shop, so when you get to the auto checkout, you are pretty much already done.
I think I’ll try it.
I used to manage a retail store in NYC. I was fast on the cash register, could make that thing smoke! Ran the store days and went to college nights Come holidays when the lines backed up, I’d tell the cashiers to step aside and let me take over. Had all the sales tax amounts memorized, too!
I’d cut one line down to size, and move on to the next, the regular cashier and hizzer bagger working as my baggers.
I was the pinball wizard of cashiers!
Glory days, boys and girls! Glory days!
But my local supermarket here in Oregon, Fred Meyer, has just introduced an app for smartphones that apparently lets you scan and bag your stuff as you shop, so when you get to the auto checkout, you are pretty much already done.
I think I’ll try it.
I used to manage a retail store in NYC. I was fast on the cash register, could make that thing smoke! Ran the store days and went to college nights Come holidays when the lines backed up, I’d tell the cashiers to step aside and let me take over. Had all the sales tax amounts memorized, too!
I’d cut one line down to size, and move on to the next, the regular cashier and hizzer bagger working as my baggers.
I was the pinball wizard of cashiers!
Glory days, boys and girls! Glory days!
My local store got rid of self checkout a few years ago when they updated the check outs.What a pain waiting on slow clerks and check writers-ugh!
They finally replaced them a month ago when the competition opened a much nicer store across the street.Interestingly enough the new place doesn't have self checkout,but the employees move fast.Competition is good!
They finally replaced them a month ago when the competition opened a much nicer store across the street.Interestingly enough the new place doesn't have self checkout,but the employees move fast.Competition is good!
brigeton
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I won't use them. Why should I work to increase their profits and take other people jobs away?
Rpg
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I won’t use the self checkout.
They cost real people jobs and provide no benefit to me.
They cost real people jobs and provide no benefit to me.
I don't use them if at all possible for the same reasons listed by others. And when the store person tells me I can use self-checkout, I tell them why I won't.
But... how many of you said the same things when you started to have to pump your own gas? The full-serve places became fewer and fewer, until there were almost none left. It didn't matter if you didn't want to pump your own gas, unless you live in Oregon you were eventually forced to because there was no alternative.
But... how many of you said the same things when you started to have to pump your own gas? The full-serve places became fewer and fewer, until there were almost none left. It didn't matter if you didn't want to pump your own gas, unless you live in Oregon you were eventually forced to because there was no alternative.
Well, it's illegal in New Jersey to pump your own gas. So there's that . . .
steveno
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at wally world if a regular check out isn't available I always go to the tobacco lane as somebody is always there. I can't see the value in seeing several people just sitting around at the self check outs making $10 an hour doing nothing but sitting around and talking among themselves
RobertJ.
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I don't see using the self-check as doing the store's job for them.
I see it as the store giving me the option to get out of the store quicker.
And the employment of others does not enter into the picture. I'm responsible for my own employment. Let others do the same.
I see it as the store giving me the option to get out of the store quicker.
And the employment of others does not enter into the picture. I'm responsible for my own employment. Let others do the same.
Didn't know that. I've only been there once. After landing in Newark the only transportation I've ever used in New Jersey is the bus to the the company's hotel choice, and a bus to NYC.
Faster
If it looks like a wait of five minutes or more at the check-out line, we go to the self-check-out. My wife scans and I bag. We're out of the store (Walmart) in no time.
If it looks like a wait of five minutes or more at the check-out line, we go to the self-check-out. My wife scans and I bag. We're out of the store (Walmart) in no time.
I use the self-checkout whenever the other lines are stacked, and sometimes just because I want to. I balked at first due to it being unfamiliar. The more I use it, the more I like it. I do not view it as 'doing their job', rather it's an alternative that saves me time, and that's a benefit directly to me. Further, when I bag my stuff, I leave the store with all of it and don't have to go back to get the bloomin' bag that was left on the carousel..... because the bagger didn't do a very good job.
At first I was not a fan. Now I am not anti.
Interesting: about two years or so ago a local chain grocery store put in a self-checkout lane as a test. After about three months they removed it because customers did not find it 'friendly'. OK, I live in Pennsylvania where the word 'change' is only welcome when you are exchanging money. In other parts of the country there are stores where there are no check-out lanes. Your card gets billed for whatever you walk out with.
It's an interesting world we live in, and there are parts of it I enjoy, as well as parts of it that I wish were the same as when I was much younger in the '60's.... Thing is, my opinion isn't going to change much, and it's not worth getting my shorts all bunched up if I don't like the way things are trending. I keep telling people that 'the good ole days' will return when we experience a major solar flare or EMP. There's a reason to keep that old car/truck that uses points! Now I am even told that the calamities we envisioned a few years back won't be so bad after all. I just keep watching things change and as far as technology goes, we seem better off now than we were several decades ago. As far as interpersonal relationships and human interaction, not so much. Guess it's all a balance. I'm glad I experienced the 'old days', but lets face it, fifty years from now these will be the old days remembered by the youth of today. I would not trade the memories of Elvis, the hula hoop, Pogo, the twist, doo-wop, the corner soda shop, and muscle cars..... and so much more, but they are history, as soon may be check-out line cashiers and baggers.
Just my thoughts - I'm sure YMMV.
At first I was not a fan. Now I am not anti.
Interesting: about two years or so ago a local chain grocery store put in a self-checkout lane as a test. After about three months they removed it because customers did not find it 'friendly'. OK, I live in Pennsylvania where the word 'change' is only welcome when you are exchanging money. In other parts of the country there are stores where there are no check-out lanes. Your card gets billed for whatever you walk out with.
It's an interesting world we live in, and there are parts of it I enjoy, as well as parts of it that I wish were the same as when I was much younger in the '60's.... Thing is, my opinion isn't going to change much, and it's not worth getting my shorts all bunched up if I don't like the way things are trending. I keep telling people that 'the good ole days' will return when we experience a major solar flare or EMP. There's a reason to keep that old car/truck that uses points! Now I am even told that the calamities we envisioned a few years back won't be so bad after all. I just keep watching things change and as far as technology goes, we seem better off now than we were several decades ago. As far as interpersonal relationships and human interaction, not so much. Guess it's all a balance. I'm glad I experienced the 'old days', but lets face it, fifty years from now these will be the old days remembered by the youth of today. I would not trade the memories of Elvis, the hula hoop, Pogo, the twist, doo-wop, the corner soda shop, and muscle cars..... and so much more, but they are history, as soon may be check-out line cashiers and baggers.
Just my thoughts - I'm sure YMMV.
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