Your thoughts on self check outs?
- Thread starter Ogandydancer
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In my area, there are now only two stores that have self-checkout. Used to be three. I usually use it because there are usually more open self-checkout lines than manned ones, and the machine isn't befuddled when I give it $21.27 for an $11.27 purchase, and the bag gets packed properly. I will note that human cashiers at Trader Joe's duplicate that performance, but that is not always the rule elsewhere.
VaTom
Member
Don't like machines telling me what to do such as " place item in bagging area. It is already there!!!! " my wife loves them, I prefer not to use them unless the staffed aisles are completely backed up.
I like self-checkouts mainly because I like my stuff bagged in a sensible way. Like fresh produce together, not with canned gods piled on top or frozen stuff in the same bag, cleaning supplies, laundry soap and such together. All frozen foods together.
Only Walmart has self checkout here, always use it.
Wish the grocery stores did but they do fairly decent on bagging. But I usually grab the bananas or other fresh fruit like peaches or pears that are easily damaged.
Only Walmart has self checkout here, always use it.
Wish the grocery stores did but they do fairly decent on bagging. But I usually grab the bananas or other fresh fruit like peaches or pears that are easily damaged.
Ribwizzard
Member
Everyone is complaining about self check out. But I'll tell you this, being stuck at the auto part store just wanting to buy a pack of fuses, or a can of wax, while the guy in front of you has the Clerk trying to figure out what alternator pulley he needs on the SBC he put in his Honda accord.
At those times I am wanting self check out big time.
At those times I am wanting self check out big time.
nachogrande
Member
NOT TO MENTION CASH MAKES MARKETING/TRACKING YOU HARDER.
Standing still in line while someone searches for their $/coupons/ etc. HURTS MY KNEES.
Whatever gets me out the store fastest cuz MY TIME is worth something too. Should stores pass the $ saved on using self checkouts along to us as an incentive to use them??? ABSOFREAKINGLUTELY. 
Standing still in line while someone searches for their $/coupons/ etc. HURTS MY KNEES.
Whatever gets me out the store fastest cuz MY TIME is worth something too. Should stores pass the $ saved on using self checkouts along to us as an incentive to use them??? ABSOFREAKINGLUTELY. 
joeintexas
US Veteran
I'm with the don't like them crowd. We have two super Walmarts here, both have at least 35 registers of which usually at least 4 are manned with a cashier. The self scanners are nearly as slow as there is always a line behind every one of them and someone trying to scan vegetables. If I do have to go there I try to go during non busy hours.
RobertJ.
Member
Can anyone point to an individual who's unemployed because of self-check?
No.
Anyone who wants to work will find a job.
There are quite a few things that reduce the need for paid labor. Are we to boycott them all?
Who here drives a car that was built with robotics?
No.
Anyone who wants to work will find a job.
There are quite a few things that reduce the need for paid labor. Are we to boycott them all?
Who here drives a car that was built with robotics?
LVSteve
Member
This is the truth of the world today. Yes, society will eventually reach a crunch point with the number of jobs actually that need to be done by humans becoming rather small and the question will be what the rest do and how do they pay for stuff. When that time comes I hope to be either be a long time dead or living on my own island complete with coastal artillery.
Like the internet?
chopshopcop
Member
At Wal-Mart you can checkout through the garden center, sporting goods, electronics counter or through the customer service counter as long as you don't have any produce. Another good lane to use is the one where they sell cigarettes. It's always manned by a cashier.
I don't use self checkout either. Every time they tell me I can use it, I tell them no thanks, if I wanted a part-time job, I'd put in an application.
At least at my Kroger, the lady monitoring the self checkout will ask if you want to use it and she'll still scan and bag your stuff. Not so at the Wal-Mart.
I don't use self checkout either. Every time they tell me I can use it, I tell them no thanks, if I wanted a part-time job, I'd put in an application.
At least at my Kroger, the lady monitoring the self checkout will ask if you want to use it and she'll still scan and bag your stuff. Not so at the Wal-Mart.
Ole Joe Clark
Absent Comrade
I like a nice lady that knows her business to check me out at WM, used to go to a certain lady every Thursday and wait in line for her. She either quit or changed hours.
Now I go to the self check out every time, no line and there is a lady usually standing by if I have a problem. I don't like them, but I have learned how to do it an be on my way.
They work for me.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
Now I go to the self check out every time, no line and there is a lady usually standing by if I have a problem. I don't like them, but I have learned how to do it an be on my way.
They work for me.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
I'm in the self-checkout camp. I get through sooner, bags packed sensibly, cart repacked without damaging my stuff, and no waiting for the self-important morons who can't quit texting/get off their cell phones long enough to bother with paying for their stuff. (I would add the Carlin bit about my stuff, their ****, but #redundant.)
And get off my lawn!
And get off my lawn!
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hostler
Member
I've been pumping my own gas for a number of years why not check myself out of walmart.
kwselke
Member
I normally use them if they are available. Stores in my area are notorious for not having the correct prices on the shelf tags and displays. By doing the shelf checkout, I have an easier time checking that the price charged is the one that I thought I would pay when I put the item in my cart. Some stores around me have pulled them, some stores are upgrading them. I like them. People still write checks in stores? 
I don't partake in amazon and other internet garbage. I support local business.
And you support the internet. Get your news here? You're killing the local news jobs. Everything is relative . . .
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I wouldn't use them at first but you have to now because there will only one checker open. Plus like to sack my own groceries instead all mixed up with one or two items in a bag and squashed bread.
muddocktor
Member
I'm not a fan of them myself. I rather have someone check me out and prefer to not use them unless it is the only possible option.
Don't follow news and politics. I only surf forums and email.
Plenty of local techs for the ISP roaming around. But I don't cry a river for the msm anyway. years of lies, and bias and lack of foresight in the industry cost them their jobs not the internet. It is the reason I don't watch or care about the news.
But not everything is relative when self checkouts made in China are shipped here and replace American workers. One or two techs can handle support for the 20 employees they replaced because the rest are in a call center in India.
Truckers are next you will see.
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