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The cashier would rather you leave them in peace than hit them with the same tiresome self-congratulatory remark they hear day in day out. Please use the self c
by phphphphp 4y ago
The cashier would rather you leave them in peace than hit them with the same tiresome self-congratulatory remark they hear day in day out. Please use the self checkouts instead.
- paganel 4y agoPlease don't use the checkout, why should corporations worth billions and tens of billions (I guess that's what Walmart is worth) get to outsource some of their work onto their clients?
- skidd0 4y agoAs a client, using the self-checkout is (usually) a choice I get to make. I choose to use the self-checkout because it is often faster than waiting in a line. I am thankful for the opportunity to put in my own effort in exchange for faster completion and reduced prices.
- noduerme 4y agoit's only faster because they fired half the employees and the other lanes are backed up.
- triceratops 4y agoI remember reading a study somewhere that the self-checkout isn't actually faster. It feels faster because you're busy instead of passively standing in line.
- yencabulator 4y agoThat depends on the implementation. E.g. Sam's Club lets you scan items as you put them into your cart and just walk past the registers. In the local grocery store at rush hour, cashier lines are long and self-checkout tends to be quicker for buying 3 items. Taking a whole cart into self-checkout is slower than a cashier, because the self-checkout has like a 5% chance per item of going into "assistance needed" mode.
- adrianmonk 4y agoWhat's important to me is my time. I don't care whether it's spent scanning things myself or waiting in line for someone else to scan them. I also don't care about punishing Walmart, so whether they "get to" do something is totally uninteresting to me. I just want to pay for my items and get out of the store, in whatever way works.
- pixl97 4y agoThis is nearly getting to the point of "don't use shovel's, think of all the ditch diggers we'll put out of work" I find places with scan as you shop apps way better than waiting in a checkout line. I get a running total of what I have in the cart, and when I'm done, I just leave without a line.
- danaris 4y agoAt least 9 times out of 10, the self-checkout is a better experience for me. I can scan things at my own pace, pack them in my bags the way I like, and listen to my D&D podcast rather than having to interact with a stranger, unless the system acts up. As pxl97 said, I preferred being able to scan things as I shopped and not have to stop at the checkout except to pay, but the one place around here that had that discontinued it a few months ago. We need to push back hard against the idea that automation is "stealing" people's jobs; the promise of automation has always been that of more money for less work. We need to remind everyone of that, and reverse the trend of automation simply putting more and more money in the pockets of the already-wealthy at everyone else's expense.
- bharathyes 4y agoalso why benefit large corporations by walking around long aisles comparing and choosing items, carying them around and walk back to the entrance? get those good old shopkeepers to do it while you stand with your list out front.
- dymk 4y agoI can do self-checkout about 5x faster than the clerk can
- rayusher 4y agoI saw on tiktok (yeah I know) where a lawyer says they never use it because you can be liable for stealing for anything you forgot scan. I never use it cause occasionally the cashier will let you know that there is a coupon for something you are purchasing.
- zamnos 4y agoYou mean to tell me that my joke that I should get the item for free when it doesn't ring up; you mean to tell me I'm not hilarious and that the cashier's heard it before?