Can we also make people who still pay for things at a store with a check go to the bad one? It was before the pan, but I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when a lady pulled out her checkbook in front of me at the checkout line. Gtf outta here.
What a great idea
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 36 minutes ago
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I know the point of this thread is “ugh, people, man” and it’s not really meant to be engaged with deeper than that, but this is a really bad idea. It would be used to justify racism and ableism and would be a really unpleasant place to be in, too. Karen city, with no one to speak out about it.
Imagine that spike of anxiety at the check-out where you feel rushed because you’re at the front of the line, but instead of it being mostly in your head it’s now a real thing with real consequences. That’s my nightmare
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 minute ago
The Karens are part of the problem. They would 100% be in the shitty store after the first trip.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yeah. In fact, society is full of people who aren’t getting things 100% correct and we just have to be accepting of that. So i don’t like this post.
BUT: the fact that some people don’t get systems like this 100% all the time is proof that we should abolish car dependency and prioritise public safety precautions. [r/FuckCars]
Viceversa@lemmy.world 30 minutes ago
society is full of people who aren’t getting things 100% correct
It’s fine, they will go to the usual stores.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
It would be used to justify racism and ableism
But how?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 26 minutes ago
Because the person in question might be an immigrant from a country where our supermarkets aren’t normal, or have a neurological disease you can’t see.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I love how wanting people to be courteous and respectful of others is racist. I just want people to realize that they’re not alone in the world, and to please move your cart to the side of the goddamn aisle.
Soulg@ani.social 1 hour ago
You’re completely missing the point. The idea can be fine on it’s face, but it will very quickly be used to otherize the undesirables.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Not what I’m fucking saying, but good try. Something being used to justify racism isn’t saying “this is on its face racism” its saying “racists will use the stringent, strict rules of this place to deny people of color access to this space”. All of these complaints are things that everyone does to some extent, you just get frustrated by them when you’re probably already frustrated.
People of color take up more space in white people’s heads, so they get more policing of their behavior even if it isn’t justified. A group of white boys being loud in a grocery store get head shakes and “boys will be boys” comments. A group of black boys being loud in a grocery store get followed around by security and white women clutching their purses.
Also fun how you sidestepped the ableism I brought up in that same sentence. Cause you know there’s no fucking argument there, huh?
boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Why is Lemmy like this
On an Idiocracy meme in shitposts someone was talking about not supporting eugenics.
Windex007@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
Oh my god I’m still stewing over that exact same post. It’s been like a week.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
Bruh, I got autism. This person decided to create a hypothetical grocery store instead of just saying “what’s the deal with people in grocery stores? Why are they always in my way?”
You make a hypothetical system as a funny observation, I’m going to shit on the hypothetical before anyone thinks its an actually good idea. Cause people do that shit. Like a whole lot. Check the person who’s trying to defend it as a good idea for an example
Demi Adejuyigbe made a parody of racism in his stand-up special “Demi Adejuyigbe is going to do one (1) back-flip” where he said all Latina women were 6’2" and people started parroting that shit back to him with no introspection on what the fuck they were saying.
fennesz12@feddit.dk 2 hours ago
I have started getting my groceries delivered. It is more expensive but worth the tradeoff to me. I’d rather cut down on my expensive habits, than spend half an hour dodging the public at rush hour, just to get it a bit cheaper.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Similarly, I started getting groceries from small old fashioned grocery stores when possinle instead of big old parking lot supermarkets.
fennesz12@feddit.dk 52 minutes ago
Oh I wish those were still around here. As a kid, we had an actual mom and pop owned cornershop. I went there as a kid one time to buy my dad cigarettes, and back then people knew each other and they’d call my home line asking if I was allowed.
Shop closed because the gas station opened their own competing store, and a big brand supermarket moved in. These days I’d kill to be able to walk into a small store nearby and be able to grab locally grown produce and walk out of there.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
I remember my days as a cashier when a guy in his 50s came up to buy something and was just like “I don’t know how this works my wife does the shopping”. I just scanned his items and gave him the total. Once again he couldn’t understand.
I had to give this grown man step by step instructions on making a purchase. Including how to use a card for payment.
It was wild. Even in a world where his wife does the shopping has he never ran into a gas station for a snack or gone to lunch on his own?
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Working retail, or any job with the public, is wild.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Even in a world where his wife does the shopping has he never ran into a gas station for a snack or gone to lunch on his own?
When you willfully reject responsibility, you don’t think clearly. Human capabilities like pattern recognition will be ignored.
rumba@lemmy.zip 52 minutes ago
Could just also have been outright fear. Waaay too many people did this for computers in the 90’s and 00’s They hit something they don’t understand and they just freeze.
I had this nurse out of state. She had worked her entire life on paper. Xeroxed forms, filled them out, filed them. She was only in her 30’s. We were a big healthcare company, and she started working for us. We had a strong need to have things digitized. She had just convinced her coworker to key in all her forms after she took care of them, but the situation was untenable. Her boss called me, we need her to have her own computer so she can learn to use it. AOK, I configured and mailed one right away.
Boss calls me back, a week later. so and so can’t get on. OH OK!, what’s the error? You’ll need to talk to her. That’s fine can you put her on? Ohh um she just left. K, can you have her call me when she gets back and we’ll sort it out right away.
A day goes by, Two, Boss calls me, So and So still can’t get on. She never called me, yeah let me put her on the line.
[muffled argument]
[long silence]
soandso: meekest voice hello
me: HI! let’s get you on your laptop, this should only take a second.
soandso: mumbles
me: i missed that, what was that?
[long silence]
me: I hear you can’t get on your laptop, let’s fix that. Did your password just not work? where did you get stuck?
[long silence]
soandso: mumbles
me: I can’t hear you, if you speak up a touch, we’ll get you going
[long silence]
soandso: almost a whisper I don’t know what to do
Me: quiet and reserved, shooting for soothing ok, that’s not a problem, we’ll go through step by step until it works, do you have the laptop in front of you?
soandso: a whisper yes
Me: is it open?
soandso: a whisper no
Me: ok, lets open it up, do you see a button on the front, you’ll need to press that and pull up on the lid
[long silence]
soandso: light sobbing it’s still in the box
me: [internally: JESUS] ok, no proble, let’s get that box open
90 minutes, in an hour and half, we got the box open, got the laptop out, opened it up, too a 5 minute break to sob and then re-collect herself. found the power button (this took 10 minutes alone) it was on the upper right of the keyboard, she made me walk her up from control, to shift to enter and so on. It came on, it was already setup for their wifi, all she had to do was enter the username and password which i had emailed to her boss and asked her to write it on a sticky.
She finally was on the desktop
soandso: morose now what
me: We’re done, you’ll need to work with your boss now to find out how to do your actual work on it, but you should be able to get in now.
She lasted another week before they fired her.
She was an RN, she knew medical coding, and she drove, she was just terrified of learning new shit
night_petal@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Do you want elitist grocery stores in LA? Because that’s how you get elitist grocery stores in LA.
Mesophar@pawb.social 2 hours ago
No no, it’s not based on income, it’s based on social and spacial awareness. That’s just an example of one of the stores for the demographic left out of OPs idea!
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
“15 items or less” lanes should charge extra for going over. 0-20 no charge, 21+ = $1 per extra item. That money goes towards whoever uses the register after you.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
I’ll do one better.
Every extra item gets to be used against the customer to harm them.
The extra item is a can of tuna? Well, we’ll beat you with the tuna. The extra item is a hammer? Well, apologies my good man, but you know the rule.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
We shouldn’t jump straight into violence, so how about after 5 minutes we’re allowed to beat them with anything from their cart, our cart, or the complementary whiffle ball bat?
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AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 10 hours ago
Split queues for casual groceries and ranked competitive groceries
Agent641@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Speedrun ALDI Aby%
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
TempoTom: Tesco Speedrun www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqxtqKzoINmKbhFoBz…
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Nah, you just live in a society of morons.
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
We need to also test your ability to spend money. I swear people at self checkout act like they have never used a credit/debit card in there life.
qupada@fedia.io 10 hours ago
But also at regular checkouts.
You've just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.
How is it that JUST NOW is the time you've decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?
I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There’s one bird in their head that’s half alive just bouncing around like the DVD logo.
Dicska@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I used to work at this kiosk which was inside a café. A customer wanted to pay from the inside, which can happen, but it’s rare. Since the reader was cable wired to the plug at the window, I had to bring it to where he was standing, but the cable wasn’t long enough. I pulled it out as much as I could, and waited for him to step forward and reach out with his card is his hand.
He was just standing there, waving his card at the machine from ~3-4 feet away. Like, I don’t know, at one point the cats reader would go “HEY, that card is Larry! Hi, Larry, how are you doing you old sonofabitch?”
GRODIE@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I miss social distancing
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I don’t. Not for shopping. I had to wait outside in line, in the freezing cold for an hour, when my state decided to limit the number of customers allowed in at one time. Sucked balls. That didn’t last long, fortunately.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Oh yes. It was great. People forced into distance. It’s all forgotten now.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
how fucked up is our world that the pandemic was actually better?
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
i worked at a grocery store for a few years, you want to go after 7pm and all your wishes will come true
Chezus9247@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I love to go as early as possible. There are only old people around me and everything is calm and chill.
hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
God forbid you need to check out (only one checkout lane open bc it’s so early) right behind one of those old people as they take about 65 centuries to pull exact change out of their asses
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m one of those old people. We know what’s up.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Put lines on the floor like m’roads
ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I remember when we did that during COVID. I wish it stuck.
M137@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’ve almost never felt this, same with other comments here saying people can’t handle self checkout. Here in Sweden, at least in my city, people behave like you’d expect normal functional adults to behave. The only people who can be an annoyance are groups of kids/teenagers, and it’s very much not all of them either.
evol@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
I live in the USA and it fine? Maybe its a walmart thing though I never go to walmart
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I live in the US. I go to the grocery store a few times a week, I’m a small trips kinda guy, and it’s close to my home. Nine out of ten trips are fantastic, but every so often you just come across a person who parks their cart sideways in an aisle, or parks next to one of the stupid fucking displays they put in the already-too-thin aisles. This is excluding, of course, folks who take stuff out of their cart and leave it anywhere, because either they don’t realize (or are to embarrassed, for some reason) that you can just leave it with a person up at the register. And at the self-checkouts I do, from time to time, see someone with clearly more than 20 items, though the store folks are good about not letting that happen.
I never go to Walmart, so I’m going to assume things are much worse there.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 hour ago
Yeah, I can remember one or two specific instances of people choosing the worst place to stop and have a conversation, but the reason I remember them is because they happen so infrequently. I might need to say “excuse me” every so often, or squeeze by someone who didn’t leave a lot of space, but it’s never inconvenient enough to warrant remembering.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Sounds like sweden might have a higher average IQ amongst their population
lime@feddit.nu 5 hours ago
pretty sure the average iq is always 100…
Noobnarski@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Maybe they just have less lead in the water and better education.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
We should also seggregate society by tiers, every 15 IQ points up and down.
That’s skill baded match making!
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Discourtesy is ubiquitous, all races, religions, and IQs.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 50 minutes ago
It was intentionaly malicious advice.
I feel if they did that, they would feel like shit, and not ask for seggregation.
fizzle@quokk.au 11 hours ago
My partner has normalised spatial awareness, and no situational awareness. I do my best to herd her around for the good of mankind but I can only do so much
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Nonsense, shopping at Costco is riotously fun just like it is.
jhdeval@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I think they should have a separate grocery store for those doing pick up orders. The traffic created from pick up orders drovea me insane.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Couldn’t think of a way to go out of business faster than having a competent-customers-only policy.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Only if we build similar airports. I understand not everbody is a regular business traveler, but somehow the people in front of me always seem fascinated with the novel concept of flying and airport security, spending 10 minutes emptying the pockets and putting their stuff on the conveyor belt.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Fly out of smaller airports if you can afford it. That’s the differentiator, is cost. Business travelers are (anecdotally) more likely to fly out of the closest and most convenient airport, whereas your regular broke joe (that’s me) will absolutely make the 1-2h commute to get myself to a hub airport to save a couple hundred bucks.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 4 hours ago
'cause your plane would take off earlier if only these lame ducks in front of you were less lame. Also you’re going to miss valuable waiting time at the gate because of them. I feel your pain, but would you mind reading a little bit faster, I don’t have time ALL FUCKING DAY, please.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Rather sit at the gate for an hour than wait and stand in line for an hour to get through security
teegus@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
For me, I just hate standing in a queue for long periods of time. Also, in my town, queues can get up to ober an hour in security, propmpting peeple to potentially miss their flight or planes being delayed.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Flying and grocery shopping are a bit different on the needs scale, don’t you think? Solid idea application though.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I do my grocery shopping at about 7AM on Sunday. I cruise through the aisles, slowing down to grab what I want. A full week’s shopping done in under 30 minutes, including checkout. I’m sure it also helps that I choose not to live in a big city.
I suppose if I had an online following of any kind, I might shop at a time that gave me something to complain about.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I mean it’s one banana, Michael.
bstix@feddit.dk 8 hours ago
I think it’s very neighborhood dependent.
The worst places are in rich neighborhoods where all the bored middle managers act like queens and kings of the grocery store.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 10 hours ago
May I suggest a cart licence.
No license…you get a fucken carry bag, get your shit together!
brap@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Oh god yes. Get it away from my car. Why are you steering it with your elbows? Whos is this one abandoned diagonally in the middle of an aisle?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Could we ban conversation between cart-holders? Two people shopping together, same cart same list, is fine. But anything beyond “Hi, nice to see you” between two carts clogs the aisles
evol@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
where do people live where people just talk to each other in public, I feel like I need to move their.
dan1101@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Rural areas. That comes with other issues though, like MAGA people.
sepiroth154@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
Also you must be able to read.
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Also separate airports and train stations without people blinded by holiday brain.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 3 minutes ago
If we’re talking about people blocking lanes with their cart. I agree fuck that shit. I want to grab my 6 pack or whatever and leave.
That said, I’m barely cognizant of my surroundings other than the one thing I’m there to buy usually so I’m almost certainly not a champion of spacial awareness. But I’m quick.