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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 day ago (18 children)

I love self checkout. It allows me to scan avocados for my daily avocado toast as russet potatoes. Only 50 more years of that and I'll be able to afford a house!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I pictured the people overseeing self checkout calling you the potato guy amongst themselves

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

We 100% know and 95% of us don't care lol.

Also, if any readers want to try this, the people most likely to care are older workers, but they're also the least likely to notice.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (16 children)

To me, this has always been more of a boomer complaint.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The things boomers complain about aren't always wrong. I ain't their damn employee.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm also not an employee of the vending machine company. I'm also not an employee of the gas station.

I don't really see what added value a cashier checking out my items for me has.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (8 children)

There was also a time when people would get pay to press an elevator button for you. But we don't do that anymore because those things are super easy and having someone doing it for you won't make the process faster.

On the other hand, the thing that pisses me off the most about the self-checkout is that people take forever to scan their stuff. When I was working as a cashier I would have an average of 50 clients/hour. There ain't no way those self checkout are more efficient considering the time people take.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

From what I've seen, the slower average time is made up for by having more of the stations. Depending on arrangement, you can fit three self checkouts in the same area as one traditional checkout. In my experience, the self checkout line is always moving faster overall.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (14 children)

OK Boomer.

Do you get the stuff off the shelf for yourself though, or give a list to the stock boy like when you were growing up?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (7 children)

My local grocery store self checkout after every single item:

Unexpected item in bagging area.

If they're going to treat me like I'm stealing the groceries I'm paying for, making the process slow and inefficient, then I'm just going to go to the regular checkout and not deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Haven't heard that in forever. It was hell for some time, but it seems a solved problem everywhere I've gone, for many years.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

If I look at this topic the American skewedness is so obvious.

In Belgium the only thing you get by going the old fashioned way is they scan your shit and push it off at the end or you need to rush to put it in your cart. Same in The Netherlands. There are no baggers.

So yeah, let me just scan my items, put them in my bags like I want them, scan the thing at the self checkout, put scanner in tray, pay, walk out.

Every so often you get a bag check and if less people cheated on their scanning there would be less of that (is what they hope you think)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I love it when a cashier checkout is available because everyone is doing the self-checkout and I can get my stuff bagged properly (I’m terrible at bagging up). I’ll even chat with them as they’re in the middle of the most boring shift imaginable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

as a former cashier, fuck talking to people, the mind's enough

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Self-checkout gang here. I like my groceries bagged a certain way and it's mildly infuriating to sort stuff on the conveyor belt only for the cashier and/or bagger to mix them randomly in the bags.

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[–] lowleveldata 34 points 1 day ago

Cashier line: Empty

Me: "I don't come here to talk to people"

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