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As an introverted person, I use self-checkout wherever I can. The less I have to talk to random people, the happier I am :)
I'm also strongly for outsourcing shitty jobs to machines, like it happened with washing machines. Let them do that work, and let people enjoy the creative ones.
I love self check out, it's great when you're only getting a few items. When I shop for more than that there's the handheld scanners, which are also great
It's not shoplifting, its an employee discount.
The industry term for that is "shrinkage".
It is 1866. Stores are making record profits while complaining.
It is 1940. Stores are making record profits while complaining.
It is 2026. You get the picture.
i dont even steal from these, i just prefer less interaction and faster checkout 🤷
If a cashier scans something incorrectly, its their mistake. If I scan something incorrectly, its theft. I'd rather not take on that liability.
Depends on jurisdiction. In Germany, in order to qualify as theft, there needs to be intent. So just an error is not enough.
How to prove "intentional vs. not-intentional"? Easy: the whiter and richer you are, the more likely it is for you to convince everybody that it was a honest mistake ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m gonna be so real, I prefer self-checkout whenever possible. The “employee discount” is just an occasional bonus
I don't.
Every single thing involves me getting the attention of the 1 guy who is responsible for minding like 10 of them.
Not to mention it takes twice as long because you're unloading an entire trolley onto a space that holds maybe 4 items, you're scanning, and you're bagging. There's no area to actually work and put all your shit, this doesn't even include the 4-12 times you need the person to come fix the broken machine, but that 1 person is busy fixing 4 other people's broken machines.
Something that would take you and a professional working together 5 minutes ends up taking 10+ minutes
Self-checkout or not, minimum wage is not even remotely enough to expect cashiers to be anti-theft enforcement.
They've been experimenting with self-checkouts for decades. When I was a kid, I remember being in a store with my grandma, waiting in line to pay, and an employee kept trying to entice those in the line to come over and try the self-checkouts.
She asked my grandma a few times before my grandma, a proud union supporter, snapped "I want a person to ring me up. I'm trying to save your JOB, young lady!"
And the young woman stopped asking my grandma.
You can only complain about being stolen from if you didn't make record profits.
This is bananas, and this is also bananas... Its odd that all this produce is bananas. Oh well, I'm not trained to tell the difference.
One time, i scanned all of my items and had to wait for someone to check id because it included alcohol. After they unlocked the machine, I paid and left. Turned out that none of the scans registered after the first alcohol item, so i got a bunch of freebies. I'd normally give a shit, but this is how well they trained me and how well their system worked.
The process is perfectly designed to give you the results you got.
-Demming, or someone like him
How do you expect me to tell the difference between organic lionsmane mushroom and a banana?
I have an issue with telling fancy mushrooms from the cheap brown mushrooms that are coincidentally 1/5 of the price. Its a known problem and it should probably disqualify me from a job checking out produce. Oh well, I guess I'll just do my best.
I don't get why anybody complains about self checkout. I think we've had them for a decade in Poland. Everything works and is much faster than a normal checkout. At this point I'm actually avoiding the few stores that don't have them yet.
You must not remember the time when enough cashiers actually were on hand. Used to be just as fast when all lanes had a cashier at them.
I know this is a radical idea but I believe that if we can, via technological and logistical improvements, eliminate the need for people to sit (or dog forbid stand, like in the US) at a till for 8 hours per day doing the menial task of ringing up items, then we should do that. Even if it comes at the cost of people sometimes having to wait a couple of minutes in line.
Then keep people around to do that job and you won't have these problems you greedy fucking assholes.
Zero training and zero pay. Hmm I wonder if anything could possibly go wrong…
You could pay yourself with free groceries. Or at least leave yourself a tip.
Dear Walmart, You owe me 4 weeks Vacation pay, and my annual raise. And where is my staff discount???
Sincerely, Customer
