Ok boomer

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Boomers are right sometimes, like about keeping email.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, this response is a rare boomer W.

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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have 20k emails in my inbox

    I will only clean it when I get complaints

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    • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re either the kind of person who reads their emails in real time and freaks if that little blue number ever reads “2” or you’re the kind of person who selects their entire inbox and marks it as read twice a decade.

      My wife is the former. I am the latter. I get too much junk. I go through my inbox a few times a day, read what looks important, and ignore the rest. I have 2,174 unread emails in my inbox and a folder called “auto junk” with 5,116 in it.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    keeping emai

    Please explain

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As opposed to switching to proprietary messaging services.

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• ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never understood the people who seem to not get that some people actually don’t mind scanning their stuff and putting it in bags, and insist that that’s the line between what the customer does and the employee. They also used to carry your groceries to the car for you, and you can also get them to pick everything up, bag it and bring it to your car or house. It’s not like the checkout process is the special part that can’t change.

  Yeah, they want to save money by having fewer people get more customers checked out faster. I don’t really care since the part I like, getting finished at the store, happens faster.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t have a problem with self-check. I use it most the time because I usually have < 10 items.

    I DO have a problem with only self-check lanes being open or only ONE regular clerk check lane open. both of which happen at walfart.

    I know this because I used to work there and policy was to hire floor associates that can run a register so the store won’t need to pay for cashiers just standing around.

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    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      so the store won’t need to pay for cashiers just standing around.

      Aren’t walmart employees also required to stand all day? Kinda insane to me that they’re not allowed to just sit down

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    • tinyVoltron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Walmart cashier without a line. Doesn’t matter how many cashier lanes and self checkouts are open. Find it hard to belief they are ever able to just stand around.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love self checkout. Conversation with strangers is difficult, slow and often not fun. Separating that aspect from checking out is the best customer service a lot of stores offer.

    Some stores near me are removing or disabling self checkout. Apparently this better serves the customer. Can’t quite see how taking away options improves things, but …

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    • ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t, it’s because people shoplift at self checkout all the time and the big retailers can’t figure out how to stop it. Almost every shop in my town forces you to do self checkout, they don’t even have cashiers most of the time. Last time I was at my local walmart they had like 6 self checkouts and 4 cashiers just standing there staring at everyone trying to find shoplifters. They still can’t find them though lol.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I respect your preference, and for some people it could even be considered a “reasonable accommodation.”

      But I prefer to have the person who does this all day whip through the scanning and bagging while I pay up. It may not be rocket surgery, but good cashiers have an efficiency of eye/brain/hand motion that I can’t match. Especially when there’s multiples of the same item, their machine trusts them to do it the efficient way rather than scanning and weighing each item. Or having the produce codes at their fingertips without stopping to read them. And since all machines have little quirks, it’s helpful to know exactly where to apply “percussive maintenance.”

      Having both options is best and should be part of ADA compliance.

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    • Naura@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yea the issue is the employer doing it to make more profit instead of spreading the more profit they make to the workers. There is nothing wrong with self check out. There is something wrong with people being paid shit when the company is sending dividends to stockholders instead.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you ever rang a TV through as bulk onions?

    I fucking love self check out!

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They have some new AI thing watching the cameras that will make that a lot harder. Like, it wouldn’t let me scan the same item twice instead of scanning both identical items.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The check out is the part where the actual sales transaction occurs. It really is materially different from those other services you mentioned.

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      check out is the part where the actual sales transaction occurs. It really is materially different

      Like a vending machine? Or the gas station? Or the grocery pickup, where I pay online?
      What makes a human being present for me giving my money to a machine different if it’s a grocery store as opposed to one of those?

      Sorry your experience sucks. Stores near me regularly have both open and the self checkout is invariably significantly faster. It’s not like I just didn’t notice that something I do several times a week actually sucks.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not the actual animosity towards things like self checkout, most of the time. It’s a distaste for a large corporation to replace jobs with automation. Sure, it’s a menial job, but it was still an ability for someone to have a job if they needed one.

    Labor shortages go up and down with time and what a lot of younger people don’t really understand was that sometimes the country would go years with it being hard to find any job. Even a bad one. The last 15 years have been pretty easy to find work, so a lot of the younger people can’t really know what it was like when you could go a long time just trying to find a job.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My parents refused to use the self-checkout because “They take people’s jobs.”

  They were hardcore republicans perfectly happy to make sure those jobs got paid shit.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do they also book all their travel through travel agencies, always use full-service gas stations, valet their cars instead of parking on the street? Those are people’s jobs too!

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, let’s not forget that you are doing someone’s job simply for using a shopping cart at all. Traditional grocers didn’t have anything like the aisles we wander through now. Rather, there would basically be a warehouse with a counter at the front. You walked up with your list of items, gave it to the grocer, and they would grab the items for you. Customers gathering goods themselves didn’t come about until the age of the supermarket starting in the mid 20th century.

      This is also why I have zero sympathy for stores that complain about theft and shrinkage. They’re the ones choosing to operate in a business model that makes theft easier. Traditional grocers didn’t have to worry about shoplifting, as everything was kept behind the counter. Sure, armed robbery was a concern then as it is now, but shoplifting wasn’t a concern.

      When the grocery stores abandoned the traditional model, they realized the money they saved on labor would more than make up for the increased losses due to shoplifting. And that was simply a choice they made. And it’s the same with self-checkout. They made a business decision that would inevitably result in increased theft, and they have no one to blame for it but themselves. If they don’t like the increased theft, they can go back to cashiers. Or hell, there’s nothing stopping Walmart from going all the way back to the traditional dry goods store model even. That would work really well with online orders as well. You don’t even let customers wander through most of the store. You just have a very long counter at the front of the store that customers walk up and tell the workers what they want. And the workers gather the order. You either wait for them to gather it, or you place the order in advance and have it ready when you pick it up. If Walmart did this, shoplifting would become virtually impossible. Their labor costs would skyrocket, but Walmart has it in its power to completely eliminate shoplifting if they really want to.

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    • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d book a flight through a travel agency if these still existed. Booking online is pure dread to me. I’m too young to have ever seen a travel agency but the concept of not having to deal with Ryanair and Wizzair is very luring.

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    • zerofk@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I always go into stores to throw stuff from the racks onto the floor, to make sure the people whose job it is to clean that up stay employed.

      I never buy anything of course, I don’t want stuff that’s been on the floor!

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  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They were increasing demand for labor which pushes up the price of labor.

    Maybe in spite of themselves, they were helping.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll give them a “partly right in spite of themselves” for sure.

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  • Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IE. We like the idea of slavery! Someone to do the dirty work while we act superior…while shopping at Walmart.

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, walmart could easily fix that by having fucking cashiers.

  At the walmart I go to they put in like 60 self checkouts and have, maybe, one cashier running at a time.

  I don’t mind self checkout as a concept. Its fine if you are just buying a couple things, or something you might be personally embarassing for you… but they are not a replacement for cashiers.

  Cashiers and belts are needed to handle bigger purchases like monthly groceries and shit.

  Unless you are gonna take 25% off my bill for labor savings, I am not going to take my monthly shopping through a self checkout. I had to once when I had no choice, and I’ll never do it again.

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  • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t get to be 3 of the richest people on the planet by paying for labor

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m 100% against self checkout.

    They’ve put the burden of sale on you instead of themselves. If you fail to check something out accidentally, you are liable for theft.

    If they don’t have a cashier, I go to customer service and tell them to ring me up even if it’s one item.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is why I’m against making people do big orders through self checkout, cause thats when an accident can happen.

      Not when you’re getting your genital itch cream.

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    • Brown5500@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      NAL, but i believe that they have to show intent in order to prosecute. As long as the legal system works properly, they would have to prove that you’re lying when you say “I forgot that was down there”

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    • 2ncs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can’t imagine a judge taking a case where someone unwittingly stole something

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    • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not even cause the checker should have seen it but also what store prosecutes someone over 1 item

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s cute that you think 25% of your sale is going towards labour, even before self-checkouts became so commonplace.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its cute that you are trying to twist what I said into something that I didnt say.

      No wait, not cute. the opposite of that.

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    • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just curious, I have no idea what the real number is, what do you think it is?

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  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah and then I had a lady ask to check my receipt because there’s not enough room to put everything on the fucking thing all at once so I told her no and walked out.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless you are gonna take 25% off my bill for labor savings, I am not going to take my monthly shopping through a self checkout. I had to once when I had no choice, and I’ll never do it again.

    I also faced that scenario once and walked out of the store leaving my $400 worth of groceries sitting in front of the abandoned cashier lanes. The profit from just my purchase would have paid for a full cashier shift that day. Instead they got to pay for restocking and ruined frozen food and meat.

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  • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s so bad with self checkout I run through it faster then a cashier does

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you have more stuff than will fit in the weighing platform it’s a logistical disaster. Hence why the belts and bagger system were invented in the first place.

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  • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Walmarts keep the same number of cashiers before and after self checkouts are installed.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      not in any walmart where i’ve witnessed the changeover.

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    • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That number is between 0-2 depending on how many cashier lanes there are.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not wanting to do free work for a company (they don’t even give you a discount if you use self-service) is being a boomer?

  That’s the first time I’ve seen the word “boomer” on the opposite side of the word “sucker”.

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  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Refuse to do free work for a company—insist that the grocery store employees go and gather the items on your list from the shelves for you! Never set foot on the sales floor, do pickup orders online only!

    Background: It used to be that the proprietor of a store brought items you requested to the counter for you. In 1916, Piggly Wiggly pioneered a new grocery store model, requiring/allowing the customers to pick items off of the shelves themselves. Not only did they not give you a discount for doing their work for them, they raked in more money from impulse purchases. The increased sales more than offset the increase in shoplifting losses. A cynical, corporate ploy to bleed customers dry, and we just think it’s normal now!

    That is to say, the purpose of a grocery store is to provide food in exchange for currency. There’s no law of nature that I know of that says that having an underpaid teenager drag your food across the scanner is the only proper way to do check-out, just like there isn’t one that says only a store employee can pick items from the shelf.

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    • evranch@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In other words, race to the bottom is race to the bottom.

      Those jobs were not cruel and demeaning as you seem to imply. In fact plenty of industries still operate that way (auto parts etc.) and they served a valuable purpose, to give work experience to that underpaid teenager.

      In fact if you go to a butcher shop, fishmonger, farm market etc. you will have your food handed to you by a human as well. And most people highly rate both the service and quality at such shops, with the employees usually being paid significantly more than at supermarkets, and having proper work hours and job security.

      So yes, I suppose Piggly Wiggly made food margins a little thinner. But considering I get better meat prices at my butcher than at a supermarket, who do you think benefited from that move the most? Most likely the same ones benefiting from the move towards a fully automated store like Amazon tested.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe you can go the warehouse and pick it up from the boxes, drive down to the farm to het the produce or, even better, grow your own food ALL THE WHILE STILL PAYING FULL VALUE TO THE SUPERMARKET.

      “People used to have even more done for them and now they don’t and pay the same” is not the powerful argument for us having even less done for us that you think it is.

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  • grandkaiser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly! Back in my day, people used to fill up my gas for me and carry my things up to my hotel room. Young people are getting lazy! Makes it hard to humiliate the poors of they make ME do the work.

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    • Acters@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tbh back then the pay was more fairly in line with cost of living for some of the jobs. however, it has been a good 20 or so year since it was more fair. Nowadays, it is absolutely scary the cost of living. it’s down right criminal.

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  • blujan@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay boomer

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• leadore@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So this is pro-self checkout? Why would you be pro self checkout? Besides the extra time and effort for the customer to check out if they have more than a couple items, I recently read an article saying that even for the companies they haven’t worked out: besides the problems and delays they cause where they have to provide employee assistance anyway (“Unexpected item in bag”, etc), they’ve lost more to theft and are having to spend more money on adding more anti-theft tech, etc. One company they interviewed is phasing them out.

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  • Blyfh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I LOVE self-checkouts for small shopping. No human interaction bullshit. Just beep your stuff, whip out your card and go. Rarely do I encounter technical problems.

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  • Crazazy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me it’s not the time spent at the checkout that matters, it’s the time spent waiting at the checkout. Also over here cashiers don’t bag your items for you, so you have to do that anyway

    Also also, they have these really handy hand scanners over here so I can already bag my items while I’m walking through the store, and then the only thing I have to do at self-checkout is hand in the scanner and pay for the groceries. That is genuinely a lot faster than normal cash register shenanigans.

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    • exasperation@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also over here cashiers don’t bag your items for you, so you have to do that anyway

      I’m a lot faster at bagging when I’m not also scanning. The human cashier divided the labor to two people, which makes it faster.

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Scandinavia?

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    • Shitbrains@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sounds amazing! Can I ask where that is?

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait a minute, do you mean to tell me that the mighty MBA class are actually just short-sighted, trend-hopping, avaricious shitbags?

    Yeah, if you can’t pay people enough to notice and/or care if I steal from you, I get to steal from you. Them’s the rules.

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    • Zess@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “If you aren’t able to stop me, I get to rape you. Them’s the rules.”

      That’s how fucking stupid you sound.

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  • Kill_John_Lennon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just like the feeling of privacy. When the staff redirects customers to the cashiers because there’s less queue than at the self checkout, I pretend not to hear with my headphones on.

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    • AsheHole@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same. I’m one of the few people that prefers self checkout. Covid was a magical time for me while grocery shopping. No one awkwardly had to smile after eye contact, everyone gave space and avoided each other, just get in and get out without ever taking out my headphones. Self check out is always faster where I’m from too.

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    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I only prefer self checkout when I’m buying rubbers and lube. Anything else I’d rather have the checkout person scan and bag for me.

      If you have social anxiety, the checkout person conversation is one of the easiest interactions for you to practice those skills on. “Hello, here are my items, thank you” is about the gist of what’s necessary.

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would you be pro self checkout? Besides the extra time and effort for the customer to check out if they have more than a couple items

    In what alternate reality does self-checkout take more time and effort?

    • If you go to a cashier then you have to wait in line. At my local supermarket there is one cashier vs. 16 self-checkout machines. Even if you go at an extremely busy time there is almost always a self-checkout machine available.
    • With self-checkout you simply scan the items from your basket and put them in your bag. With the cashier you have put all your items on the conveyor belt, wait for them to be scanned, then put them in your bag.
    • If you have more than a few items you simply grab a hand-scanner or just use the app on your phone and scan the items as you put them in your cart. Then you just go to a self-checkout machine and pay. No unloading the cart at checkout, you just pay and take your cart to your car.

    the problems and delays they cause where they have to provide employee assistance anyway (“Unexpected item in bag”, etc)

    What do you mean unexpected item in bag? The self checkout machine can’t look into my bag.

    The article also talked about people getting in trouble for accidentally not getting something scanned.

    Never seen that happen. You get random bag checks before you pay (so at that point it’s technically not theft). If you missed something, they simply re-scan all the items and you pay the correct amount, that’s all.

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Self checkout is great for stealing!

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  • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because the store is packed, they only have 2 cashiers on shift and I want to go home.

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  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are HUGELY advantageous to shoplifters. My local grocery store did it for a few years and stopped all together.

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• djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Recently had a support call with a woman who was complaining about our 2 factor authentication system because she could only access one web page at a time. When I asked her if she couldn’t just open a new tab, she said she was too old to learn how computers work and couldn’t do that. She went on to claim that there’s a lot of people at her level of ineptitude, and that we shouldn’t have implemented 2fa because “most people don’t have multiple monitors.”

  It was so, so hard not to throw out an OK Boomer as they proudly lectured me on the depths of their ignorance.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is a time when every person realizes that things have changed so much around them that they no longer understand how it works. It creeps up on you slowly, but in the Information age, that is accelerated. Every person here will experience some form of that at some point in their lives.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can be funny for trivial stuff, but in the medical field this type of stuff is pretty messed up in my opinion. Some medical places implement stuff like that just because they refuse to pay people to staff the phones in scheduling.

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• Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree with the boomers on this one. I’m not in the habit of providing free labor to a corporation I don’t even work for.

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• AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d rather “work” than wait behind people with 100+ items. I can be out the door in 2 minutes.

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m on Team Boomer on this one.

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• TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They also don’t schedule enough employees to keep the lines running quickly, they only have 2-3 lanes open most of the time when it’s busy as having another line is 2x $13-15 an hour for a bagger and a cashier. This gets people to either go to self checkout or wait forever. Naturally most people go through self checkout, which they’ll probably use as an excuse to make more self checkouts.

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• Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Management can fuck right the hell off. Self checkout is taking jobs away from people and getting us to work for free.

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• neonred@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This says much about respect and social competence in this society when the first instinct is to mock and abuse someone with different priorities than yours.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone needs to write “Ok, Boomer” on this notice.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. I don’t work here. Stop trying to get me to do the job for free, either pay a cashier to check me out or fuck off.
  2. There’s an epidemic of these machines not working and then the shopper getting charged with shoplifting over it, Wal-Mart is the worst at doing this.

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• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I refuse to use them as a union worker, when I’m told to use the self checkout as I’m in line for the only cashier I just refuse. I’m doing it for you kids

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• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used to love using the self-checkout. But then it became a trend among the corporate overlords here to get all paranoid about people stealing food, so now they have the weight system calibrated too strict. Now if you breath on the items in the bag it locks you out and someone has to come unlock the system to continue scanning. So it’s not really worth the hassle, and seems kinda pointless since an employee has to unlock the system after every few items.

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• bawdy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then offer a discount for self checkout.

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• Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But also, fuck off walmart

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• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t get it. Why would you ask a customer if they want to use the self checkout lane?

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was once mistaken for an employee somewhere and my sleep deprivated response was to say “I am wearing pants so clearly I dont work here.” I have no fucken clue what that means but I think it was a threat.

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• Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I enjoy turning this one around. “Oh, you’re one of those socialists who wants everybody else to do your work for you, too lazy to lift your own groceries. Nobody wants to work anymore!”

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• AuntieFreeze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boomer uncle literally drives his electric bill payment to the local office to pay it when they have a perfectly fine online portal.

  Same exact response ‘that’s someone’s job’ like the employee actually has a say.

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• anachronist@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Corporate gaslighting be like:

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• 01011@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never understood that argument. I want to be in and out as quickly as possible. Self checkout makes that happen.

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like most memos in Walmart break rooms are this kind of fodder for shitposting material

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• Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, both are right. Clients shouldn’t have to do the cashier job.

  But clients should stop going there to send a message instead of harassing the minimum salary employee.

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• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reading the comments, do people not like self checkout? Is it another one of these American things, that baffle the rest of the world? Like grocery baggers. I’m European, living in Poland and Denmark and if given the choice, I will always pick the store with self checkout. It’s simply faster. Only old people don’t use self check out, not because of boomer ideology, but because they need the cashier’s help.

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• Mobiledecay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually prefer self checkout. Idk. I get it though.

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• callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d rather check myself out than deal with other idiots. It’s a win for my sanity.

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