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Join the self-checkout gang
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You’d think so, but even then I feel pressure. People go to the self checkouts for the quick and convenient process . Then here I am holding EVERYONE UP trying to gather my bags and fumbling around with my receipt. Every time.
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Relish it. Go through your receipt and verify every item is in the bags. Bonus points for ticking off each entry with a pen and confirming the SKUs are correct.
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Point out on the card where uncle touchy touched you.
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You monster.
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Just be like the slow driver in the left lane not giving a fuck.
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sounds like your area needs more stores or at least more terminals, all the stores i've been to basically never have a queue for the self checkout.
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Did a self checkout recently at a store I'd never been to before. Went through pretty smooth, shoved receipt in my pocket, and then saw they had little security gates and a receipt scanner, so I had to fish out the crumpled paper from my pocket, fumble around trying to find the barcode thing, and of course it also had a random QR code that I tried to scan for like a minute until the security guard had to come over and help me. Luckily it wasn't that busy, but if there had been someone waiting behind me it woulda been a nightmare.
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Nope. Back in my day we got service buying gas. Now I have to pay more for gas and do it myself. You are destroying a society, and to a point making somebody not being able to have a job for as long as possible. You pay extra and corporate benefits
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Eh, it's just unecessary. I'm all in favor of phasing out boring, repetitive jobs. Have humans do fun things while robots run shit we don't want to deal with.
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My man, you the robot.
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Yeah, all those fun things you can do without a job like sleeping in my car or wandering the streets.
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Try shitting on the streets of San Francisco
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Except that’s not what happens
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I guess thats a fair point. I was talking more about stores tho where you can choose between self-checkout and normal checkout.
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It will lead to self checkout only and security personal being the only employee. Basically you can see this at a gas station
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I don't disagree about your first point, but regarding the second I would like to point out something: I work at a fuel center, and at least in the US (or at the very least in Michigan), we are legally required to have at least 1 person at the fuel center at all times when it is open. Safety reasons.
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This is why my home town has a bylaw indicating that fuel can only be dispensed by personnel of the business retailing the fuel. Sometimes people from out of town do insist on pumping their own gas though.
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Sounds like a decent community. Kudos.
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There's no stopping automation. Even if the cashiers were free the big players would still go to a self service model.
It's faster and less error prone, meaning more customers, meaning more profit.
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It’s not automation if I have to do it instead. What you are describing is those amazon stores with cameras up to each customers rectum - and even amazon is closing these down.
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Yeah except the exact change, coupon hounds and just generally dim folks tie those up too. And it’s a 4:1 fuck up.
I was in Home Depot and some donut was trying to buy a grill he wheeled in from the display outside through self checkout. The. Demanded to not have a floor model. Tied up the cashier for a hot minute. Meanwhile another old lady started flagging down some rando to help with a coupon that I’m fairly sure was fucking years expired. And some third poor soul had a legit problem but was in donut purgatory for a bit.
The checkout line guy was literally faster. But I wasn’t in a hurry and was just enjoying the show and letting others cut and go through the non self checkout. It was fucking mesmerizing.
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Or just the paying with card gang...
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Self-checkout gives me so much anxiety 😭
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