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As a general rule I avoid any and all self checkout lanes. You want me to come into your building, find what I'm looking for, cart it around, check myself out, bring it to the car, and in some cases being the cart back inside.
Should I be unloading the delivery trucks and putting it on the shelves for you too? How many fewer employees can you go for?
But this is literally how supermarkets provided cheaper prices than the local shops we all used to have. Customers swallow the external costs of last-mile transportation by driving to the business's warehouse. They swallow the costs of service staff by serving themselves. You're just describing their whole business model which, let's not forget, we as a nation gleefully latched onto when it became available, forcing local grocers to close.
Interesting. I avoid normal checkouts because self checkouts are so much more convenient and faster for me. I never use carts so maybe that's the difference
Same here, why would I do it myself when they have staff to do it for me? Should I cook my own steak at the restaurant as well?
Also, it would decrease staff and still won’t lower the prices so fuck em
When it comes to self checkout, I avoid it at every opportunity. In times when I cannot avoid it, I only scan maybe one or two things of my entire grocery cart and then leave with 50 to 60 bucks worth of free groceries.
If some store wants to try to screw me by forcing me to provide free labor, I’m gonna screw them right back.
And I always win. Fuck Self check out.
And it works. The three stores I most frequently shop at have all dropped self check out. I guess they got the message that fucking over their customers isn’t profitable. I wish more would get that message.
Am I missing something? I'm on board with the stealing but I don't get how self checkout is fucking over customers
If you go to a store, and they force you to provide free labor before you can leave with the stuff you wanna buy, that’s what I would classify as “fucking over the customer”
But maybe you enjoy providing free labor?
It's literally faster and more convenient??
You also have to walk around in a store and can't wait at a bar in the front while an underpaid intern is forced to fetch the items on your shopping list.
Why would you want a service human just to scan your groceries?
Be careful to not hit felony limit
Like most of these “anti-theft” pieces of shit, it only negatively impacts and inconveniences those who don’t steal (or don’t intend to steal). Everyone else is just going to find a way to steal.
So I cant put my own backpack in the cart? I have to use a cart, no baskets allowed?
Like the self-checkout registers with built in scales, this only inconveniences everyone while barely stopping any theft..
Still not gonna stop the smack heads running out with arm fulls of meat or the little radgies pocketing everything they can. But sure spend more money on useless shit, I hope they go out of business.
And it'll just piss off customers too. It'll be like self checkout which took the better part of a decade to make even vaguely work well. Endless issues with children climbing on the carts, people putting purses in them. How do you accommodate different bag types over such a large scale? What if part of the cart is broken? Are you gonna tell me that every single cart is going to be within a dozen or so grams that these scales will be accurate to? Will each cart be weighed? If so you'll have to attach some kind of barcode to it. What if that falls off? How will you deal with the machine seemingly not working at that stage then telling a customer that they have to switch carts.
I'm so glad this shit is considered kidnapping in the US.
It's amazing what they'll do to avoid paying actual cashiers