Haven’t you always wanted to work as a grocery cashier, but for free, and with a worse register?
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by titty_wizard@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
hOrni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ever wanted to just skip the line and get out of the store faster?
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Are you really gonna scan, and bag 8 bags worth of shopping in an area the size of a postage stamp with a clanker malfunctioning every 8 items, faster than a professional could do it it?
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
If you skip it entirely, you can get your food for free! Grocery stores hate this one simple trick.
myyass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s how I get organic produce for regular prices. I wasn’t trained to be a cashier. It’s an onion as far as I know.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tap I’m using my own bag
“put bag in bagging area”
places bag in bagging area
“unknown item in bagging area, please wait for attendant”
Fml
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Don’t do that, say you have 0 bags and after you pay put everything in youR bag quickly.
hOrni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People complaining about self checkouts, why do You use them? You can just simply stand in line for 20 minutes just like in the 90s.
spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
20 minutes? Not even the old slow checkers have 20 minute lines these days. Although a 2020’s ten minutes sure can feel like a 90’s twenty.
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
because it’s a transfer of labor, at an expense to all of us. where 12 aisles used to be open on a weekend, now 1 is with a 8 spot self check.
i used to do cashier work at my store. back in the 90’s of course.
it’s all just a way to make more profit.
if i scan it and it fails twice, i steal it. and play stupid if seen. i never give a receipt if asked. i know they’re just a worker, underpaid, and UFCW doesn’t care about them, so i just keep walking and never press it. but yeah. fuck the self checks, even IF you still use the main line.
hOrni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Where is that a problem? Where I’m from self checkouts work fine. I’m not even coming into a store unless it has a self checkout.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re obviously not British
JelleWho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is a version with a scale. Where if your item is not within the small allowed weight, it will not work. I have also seen one with a camera, and if the AI things it is the wrong item it would also lock up.
Both of these options I hate because it gets 50-75% flagged wrong, and it’s literally faster just to wait in the old fashioned que
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’m glad everyone in my country got rid of the scales, haven’t seen one in close to a decade. They just work.
hOrni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So go to the queue. I don’t see the problem. We only have the scale based ones and it works 99% of the time. Because how can a packedged product weigh any different?
Ydna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agreed. I use the self-checkout stations almost exclusively for at least a decade, these memes are always confusing. Only time I have a problem is when I get carded for alcohol, otherwise I’m out the door.
Varesti@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I usually just go to the real person.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
So much easier to let a real person do it, plus it keeps them in a job and you don’t have to do unpaid labour. Win-win.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve noticed this “feature” disappearing from most self checkouts.
JelleWho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like self checkout, or when you can scan the items in the store with your phone or scanned. But o-my-god please no weighting stations, there so much trouble I will avoid them at all cost
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why are you the way that you are?
Sorry for answering a rhetorical question, but self-checkout is the way it is because stupid consumers meekly agreed to do work for big corporations for no pay. They designed a bad system because they don’t respect you. They don’t respect you because you are a fool.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fucking Kroger, every damn time
cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If your checkout has a handheld scanner, try using that for the tricky items. It might disregard the weight.
gaiety@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
this whole operation was your idea
Jagarico@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love self checkouts at Uniqlo, you just throw everything into it in a bag and it scans the whole bag in a second, showing you the list if you want to check it.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if i have a few items only and i count to 15, i’ll straight just move to a fresh self check register and start my order over.
BlueberryWalnut@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Friendly reminder to not give your free labor to the grocery conglomerate - make them check you out, always (teehee but rly tho)
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I will never understand self checkout issues. I can’t say i have ever had an issue.
I respect that people have issues and thats fine. But i just don’t know how.
MacDuff@ani.social 2 weeks ago
MacDuff@ani.social 2 weeks ago
How are you?
MacDuff@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Hi
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
on the shitpost meter, you score 50%
rslogix89@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Help is on the way…”
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I once had a dude working on monitoring the self checkouts get mad at me for having a bag that made the machine freak out and lock itself down when I sat it in the bagging area. Nothing crazy, just a normal canvas grocery bag. I don’t control your manager setting it so that anything heavier than the paper store bags set it off, dude!
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
They also use cameras overhead to track items in your hands. I was buying a few of an item, so I scanned one, and put it in the bag while holding another (unscanned), but that made it mad…
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I will never not read this in Mrs. Doubtfire’s voice.