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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's not an apples to apples comparison. I am buying a single thing at a pump: fuel. I boop my card. I stick nozzle in hole. I pull lever until it stops. Vending machines? Second verse same as the first. I boop card. I push button. I take chippies, I walk away. Vending machines specifically are purpose-built for self-service.

I spend maybe 30 seconds to 3 minutes at these things. The only work I do is tapping my payment and pressing a button or two. Groceries are a whole different animal. It's scanning, weighing, coding, bagging, loading, and paying. It's a fuckton more involvement by the customer. I don't think you can in good faith compare self-checkout to a vending machine.

The business is incentivized to trick you into performing labor for them. Part of the cost of my groceries is for someone to have a job doing that. If I'm gonna do that labor for the store, I should get an employee discount, at least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

scan as you cart and self checkout is like the others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think you can in good faith compare...

Ooh, that's just one of my pet peeves. Such a stupid fucking phrase. The only way to know if you "can't compare" two things is to do a comparison between them and come to the conclusion that the two things are very different. I can compare self checkout to a kumquat if I want to.

Now for some actually useful conversation, let's compare number of steps for vending machine vs self checkout (since that's the closer of my two examples).

Vending machine:

  • insert payment
  • push button to select items
  • pick up item
  • repeat all steps until you have the number of items desired

Self checkout:

  • scan item or place item on scanner/scale and push buttons for item type. This only counts as one step, because you are never doing both to the same item
  • repeat first step until you have all items desired
  • insert payment
  • pick up items

It's the same steps in a different order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

is to do a comparison between them and come to the conclusion that the two things are very different.

Mate, they did that. That's exactly what they did, and they told us how.

repeat all steps until you have the number of items desired

Holllld the fuck. My self checkout has a loose limit of 25 items, who the hell is getting 20 items from a vending machine?