I don’t understand the hate for self checkout it’s faster and easier
Ok boomer
Submitted 7 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It depends on the store. There are places where the self checkout lanes are dysfunctional and end up requiring waiting for a checkout worker (who are usually understaffed) to come and scan a code to fix it.
MrMxyztplk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My only issue is how loud and obnoxious the prompts/alerts are at some stores who have their volume cranked to max.
Opisek@lemmy.world 7 months ago
European here. Our self-checkouts make no sounds and don’t have any of that unexpected item bs. The experience is great. If your experience is like what I’ve read here, I begin to understand why it’s disliked.
keyez@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My local king soopers always allowed a super low volume setting if you clicked it, now there’s only two, yelling and screaming. People were probably setting that and the beep couldn’t be heard on the camera or something
histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Nah like actually they trying to deafen us
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not always though. But regardless if you agree there, they are slowly replacing humans with machines and that has negative implications for the economy
stoly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not faster, but it can be easier if you really don’t want to talk to people. Don’t kid yourself: someone who spends hours per day scanning barcodes knows where they are on each product and can do them faster than you.
histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It literally is faster for me as I worked at Walmart for awhile but some the people they got in there now are slow af
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I am faster on self-checkout than the people working the register 100%, except Aldi. If Aldi scanners had to bag, it would be a tie.
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 7 months ago
It’s faster for me, slower for the other 799 people in line before me who have never stepped foot in a grocery store before today.
Obvious hyperbole but some days it doesn’t feel like much of an exaggeration.
histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
There’s always the one guy who can’t figure out to scan his fruit
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I hate self checkout. I work all day to then check out my shit and bag my own groceries? And pay 2x for the same food and less service than 5 years ago?
LouNeko@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I like to have both. Self check out if I only have <10 items. But if I have a full cart I’d like to go to a cashier who has the scanning down to a T. I think this the best of both worlds.
tweeks@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I love it. Less social interaction after a long day of work, I can keep my headphones on. It’s a bliss for me.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 months ago
It IS weird how this cost saving measure hasn’t saved us any money, isn’t it?
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is bagging your own stuff really that much more work? The sacrifice is waiting in line for them to fuck up bagging it anyways. It’s significantly faster to use self and get home sooner to relax. If you’re over filling a cart I’m sure it makes sense to go to an actually cashier but outside of that it’s just wasting time
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
The self checkout is a perfectly viable option, so long as Walmart can find the strength inside themselves to open 3-6 manned tills on a Sunday for folks with large carts or children. Nothing is more demoralizing than getting up to the checkouts after a huge shop and finding there isn’t a single till open whatsoever. Throw in a four-year-old who wants to help scan every item and you’re ready to burn the store down by the time you leave.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’d just abandon my shopping at that point and go somewhere else.
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I thought they stopped selling children at Walmart
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
They’re not great, but they’re available.
roofTophopper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When I bring my banana through the cashier lane they give me a dirty look. But when I ride one of the lawnmowers inside and try to mount a self check out, I get kicked out of the store. MAKE UP YOUR MIND!
nieceandtows@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Screw Walmart. During the storms here in NC, I went there to buy some relief supplies, and it was awesome to see the whole store getting picked apart by people buying supplies to donate. What was definitely not awesome was the only 3 checkout lanes open out of the total 12, because Walmart has a 3 per employee rule and they don’t want to assign enough workers for the checkout lanes, even during times of crisis like this.
YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What is a “3 per employee” rule?
nieceandtows@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only 3 self checkout lanes should be open per employee. If you have a self checkout area with 12 terminals, there have to be 4 employees to keep them all open.
scytale@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I personally prefer to use the self-checkout lane because I want my groceries bagged in a specific way (raw meat in one bag, cans/bottles in another, etc.). It’s infuriating when I line up my groceries in order on the conveyor and the bagger just stuffs them in the bags randomly anyway.
jadedwench@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I miss HEB sometimes back from when I was a kid. They were trained to bag things “correctly” and was one of the few places that didn’t drive my dad insane. They banned plastic bags here shortly before Covid and I have used self checkout since with the nice big reusable ones that I can fill how I want. They would barely fill one bag and then demand another or start pulling out flimsy paper bags that will tear while trying to get my groceries up the stairs. I would bring 3 and it still ended up with me re-bagging it all and dealing with them saying I didn’t have enough bags.
scytale@lemm.ee 7 months ago
barely fill one bag
Right? That’s another pet peeve of mine, the inefficiency. I bring up to 6 bags sometimes and somehow they manage to use all of them for a small haul of groceries, and randomly mixed too (bread smushed in with cans, raw meat mixed with hygiene products, etc.)
I get it, they’re not paid enough to be that meticulous; that’s why I’d rather do it myself.
Freefall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Haha, I am using the “I don’t work here” line 🤣
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Ok boomer
Freefall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
GOT EEEM!..oh wait, that’s me…🤣
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s actually pretty good, isn’t it?
CumWeedPoop@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
I get being mean to walmart because corporations are bad but being needlessly rude to random employees rub me the wrong way. Most of us can’t get a job anywhere better despite having a degree. The job situation is so fucked right now. I should not be having to compete with people that have masters degrees for tech support jobs that pay $15 an hour. Fuck this broken society.
lazyViking@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Maybe your decades of failure is just obvious to everyone but you
nobleshift@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Even though ya specified south Florida I still read it as fucking San Francisco.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
"Not another minute! Pretty soon I’m going to stop playing who-shall-I-kill-first in my head and just go for what feels natural. I’m thinking me first, then you."
- Bernard Black
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I didn’t know there were places that even asked that.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve recently visited a grocery store in Hamburg, where you just put all your items on the self checkout counter, it detects all the prices and quantities in an instant (yes, including fruits and vegetables that require weighted!) you pay, you go. So great ! The only truly practical implementation of a self checkout, in my opinion. I’ve seen this in other types of store before (clothing) but never for groceries.
expatriado@lemmy.world 7 months ago
punchline in the title?..
ok boomer
exu@feditown.com 7 months ago
Real US/Europe split here
No cashier packs your bag for you in Europe. Sometimes it’s a fun game trying to be faster packing than them scanning.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We have Aldi and Lidl they’re self-pack here as well.
IdkAndIdc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
that is halarious
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you can the groceries yourself as you go through the store, you’ll definitely be packing them quite a bit faster.
ntma@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I like hanging out on parking lots at Walmarts and to scam boomers coming back with a load of groceries
UmeU@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s the scam?
ntma@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I show them my box knife and ask if they can spare any food.
bazingabot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wouldn’t mind if either the cost savings by the grocery store would be transparently passed on to the customer and not greedily put in own pockets OR the checkout process is like " walk through a gate, everything is self scanned due to RFID tags and you can pay immediately at a machine"
bucketofcandyfloss@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
ok boomer
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
…because it’s a non-sequitur and makes no sense as a response.
NABDad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, you wouldn’t want to get fired by Walmart. You’d have to go on welfa… oh.
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Personally, I’m faster and better at bagging my items. Most grocery stores don’t even bag your stuff for you anymore, so it’s actually much slower for me to wait for someone to scan my item, then slide it down the conveyor belt so I can wait for them to scan the thing that should be at the bottom of the shopping bag. Too much hassle. Yes, it’s fucking stupid that I’m essentially doing labor that someone who is actively employed could be doing, but I also don’t have all fucking day to wait in line ups.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Would the RAtM reply be too insubordinate? 😛
Emmamag@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Okay
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 7 months ago
The closest Walmart to me has about a dozen or so self checkout tills and there is usually a line of 20 people waiting to get to them. There’s 3 cashiers that are there to badge the machines when they need to check ID for alcohol or override the machine if you double scan an item. I love self checkouts in other stores but Walmart has always been infuriating.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I’ve only been mistaken as an employee in one store I used to frequent. I was very disappointed when all three of those other customers actually accepted I didn’t work there.
I was in the camping section checking out the flashlights and the idiot that actually worked there wasn’t expected to learn what those lights will actually do. Told the customer it runs at the maximum output for the runtime of the lowest output because the employee only looked at the simplified status on the side of the box.
I had to show the customer the chart on the back of the box where the runtime and brightness of each mode is listed there and talked at length about all the different lights on display that I saw and was familiar with.
When I stepped away three different customers asked me about stuff in different departments of that store and I told them I didn’t work there. Some of them gave me a dirty look, others were more chill about it.
You can make anyone believe you’re supposed to be somewhere if you just act like you know what you’re doing. But in this case I actually did know more about those flashlights than the employees did.
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Instead, try saying “well, then they don’t pay you enough to scan everything now do they?”
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Y…yes? They don’t? That’s not a very good comeback you got there.
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Okay and what if I, believe it or not, actually already knew that they dont pay customers to scan things and wasn’t on Walmart side?
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I live here in Toronto.
When I go to a store, I pay with cash.
I pay with Canadian money, because I’m a Canadian who buys from stores in Canada.
That was easy to do in Ontario Wal-Mart stores.
But then the put up self-check-outs that only accepted credit and debit cards—maybe because they’re in cahoots with the banks and the NSA/wp:CSEC.
Then I had to use a cashier.
So I went to Wal-Mart fewer times as I didn’t like to wait (as well as the increased prices during and after Covid-19).
Now they have a person at the self-checkout who will scan my stuff and accept my cash.
It seems that Wal-Mart adapted—somewhat—to people like me, people who pay with cash.
Still, I do more purchases at Food Basics and Dollarama because their self-check-outs accept cash, including pockets full of loose change I purposely carry when I go there.
doktormerlin@feddit.org 7 months ago
here in Germany the self-checkouts mostly have a cash machine so you can pay cash without a person there
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I’ve never seen a self-checkout that accepts cash in Germany.
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Our Rewe recently switched to card-only
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Does that include your Wal-Mart stores? because that would be great.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Stores still accept cash? What is this, the 17th century?!
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why does Canada love coins so much? | Ivan Decker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdzL86rW78U
2:24