/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I'll still be stealing things

>>20239880
too many people paying red delicious prices for honeycrisp apples, I suppose

They shit themselves every 3 scans and I have to wait for an attendant to unlock them, so what's the point? I'll just go to the human and it will save everyone a lot of time.

>>20239880

They want you to talk too all the niggers, spics, and chinks they bussed in from the southern border, northern niggers, spics, chinks, crackers couldn't police their own.

That said, I order my groceries on like and have a Nigger, Chink, Spic, or Cracker deliver my shit to my front door.

>>20239880
how am I going to purchase my anal lubes now?

>>20239880
If they actually had 6 express lanes open then I won't care.
But when they have 1-2 "20 items or less" lanes and I just want to buy like 4 items you can bet your fucking ass I'm going to take the self checkout option that takes less than 2 minutes.

>>20239894
this but unironically. guess I'm buying preparation h off Amazon now.

>>20239890
this guy hates everyone equally, does it even qualifies as racism at that point...

>>20239880
That's fine, I'd rather some wagie cashier work for me than the other way around. The problem is these stores usually only have 1 or 2 out of their 10 lanes open. And there's like 12 Uyghurs in front of you buying 30 things. Their cheap asses need to hire more cashiers.
>>20239899
this

the local grocery store just added them like 4 months ago

>>20239908
A quality we all must strive

>>20239884
And you'll still be a nigger.

Only one store in my area got rid of them. Doesn't much matter to me, really, since I don't use them as a matter of principle: if I'm doing the work of scanning and bagging my own shit, I should be compensated with a discount on the purchase price. Since I'm not, wagie does it for me.

They still have them at both the walmart and nearby grocery store in the 80ish% white small city I live in. This is even a kind of shit neighborhood where people are sitting around drinking beer all the time and I hear fat people screaming at each other on the street outside at least once a week

>>20239945
Why? Corporations deserve nothing.

>>20239899
>>20239931
what stores are you people going to? The ones here routinely have multiple tills open and never take me more than a few minutes to run through my purchase and pay. The only exception to that is if I have a raincheck or if I notice a price discrepancy and even then, I don't hold up the queue for the people behind me and just take the receipt and my complaint to customer service.
Why is my service so quick while you people have such poor shopping experiences?

>>20239958
>he thinks corporations lose a dime from shoplifting
Lmao nigga the loss is deducted from wagie's pay

>>20239970
No it isnt

>>20239974
Maybe you got laws for this in Muttlandia, but in my thirdie shithole when I was working in a grocery store and something got stolen the entire shift team got their bonuses reduced. Which is funny because it literally incentivized stealing by the same very shift.

>>20239908
horseshoes back into equality

>>20239980
Bonuses are completely discretionary, they are not wages. I'm sorry you're an uneducated thirder.

>>20239980
in America over long periods of time the losses from all sources, including theft, are just added back into factoring the price of all products. Theft is basically an operating expense to large supermarkets.

>>20239968
I go to a chain store (Albertsons), I know multiple other stores are around but the chain grocery store is just a block away from me to I go to that one. They usually only have one or two lanes out of the many lanes they have. I don't know why. So I just go through the self-check that takes two minutes than wait 20 for a cashier.

I live in a city, so that may also be a factor.

>>20239880
not to me.

>>20240021
>than wait 20 for a cashier.
I go shopping before 10am on thursday. I almost never have to wait for anyone. even if there is someone ahead of me, that gives me more time to unload my cart.

I only use self checkout if I have 1 or 2 items and in one hell of a hurry. which almost never happens.

>>20239887
>They shit themselves every 3 scans and I have to wait for an attendant to unlock them
This. Ive hated the self checkouts since forever unless im buying like two things, i always go to the cashier.
>>20239906
just get yourself one of these and a power drill

>>20239880
Good riddance. Self checkouts are a huge pain in the ass.

the year is 2024 and we still need designated human to grab and pass your food through the red blinky thing and ask you need a bag

>>20240021
I got to an acme (what Albertsons is called on the East Coast) and never have that problem. I was just there yesterday. I went at 5.30. Every lane was open except one or two. I was standing there literally two minutes before it was my turn to get shit scanned. Does your store not have the "ic3" policy? Acme has this thing where if a cashier has three other more people in line, they call someone over to quicken the checkout time.
I also live in a city and am less than a mile from two different Acmes, both of which are quick as a kitten queef when it comes to getting customers out

>>20240070
you can always go to the Amazon store if you want to sign your soul away to Bezos for a little convenience.
no tills. no cash or checks. your amazon account is automatically billed when you leave the store.

>>20239968
>what stores are you people going to?
Shop Rite in Bethpage.
Since they're no longer at 2am I often have to go during morning or afternoon hours. Typically there's like 10 lanes open but there's still a line of 1-2 dozen carts chock-full in front of me for normal lanes.
The self checkout is essentially the express lane.

>>20239884
Based nigger

>>20240084
What if I have no money in my amazon account and only used giftcards

>>20240100
then you won't even be allowed in.

>>20240075
from what I've seen going to the store at around 7-9pm was there are usually 2 lanes open. Anytime after 9 there is only 1. I do see on occasion cashiers calling on the intercom for more help but they never come. It use to not be this way, it use to be like you said, very quick and easy, then they added the self-check lanes around 2017-18 and seemed like they cut down on the cashiers they hire. Could be they are short staffed now, I always see the same couple people and an occasional new hire who doesn't stay for more than 3 months.

>>20240034
If I go at 9am I know there would be no lines. But far too early for me.

>>20239880
>he still goes inside the store
>he doesn't order curbside and have the wagies bring his groceries to him so he never has to set foot inside the store
Peasant

>Not doing free pickups at Krogers
>Order same day
>Zero time spent inside grocery store
>Krogers doesn't allow tips so I don't have to tip the retarded zoomers for putting things in a basket on wheels
You self checker outers are retarded

>>20240117
I hope you don't like fresh produce, anon. Because stores generally instruct their order pickers to choose the worst-looking fruits and vegetables to fulfill online orders, knowing that in-store customers would immediately recognize these wretchedly deteriorated plants and leave them to rot.

>>20240136
Even if that were the case, and it's not, all you would have to do to avoid that is go in the later half of the day after other customers got all the shit ones first.

>>20240136
>I hope you don't like fresh produce, anon
I buy produce and meat at small grocers that don't have self checkout lines.

>>20240023
How interesting that you would choose to post an image of dancing jews as a major catastrophe happens in America

>>20240117

This is the way.

>>20240136

Get a fruit subscription from one of those heavy-waste companies that pick QUALITY tree babies to eat.

>>20240102
what if i go in anyway?

>>20240102
Gates look easier to jump than turnstyles.

>>20240075
>ic3 policy
I get it.
I see three (people in my line). Cute

>>20239890
AI post

>>20240087
>Shop Rite
Yeah, SR Is a little slower than Acme, Giant or Food Lion. I don't know why. The acme I go to most often has three literal retards working the register and it still goes pretty quickly but not ShopRite. Fastest registers are Lidl, Aldi and this local DePaNJ Asian chain, Hung Vuong. Slowest is ShopRite by far.

i prefer face to face anyways. i enjoy looking wagies in the eye while im loaded up with hundreds of dollars worth of stolen shit while they scan my single banana.

>>20239880
I can tell you in the white parts of the country self-checkouts are expanding
This is all on if you live in a high-trust region or the African containment ghetto

>>20240258
holy shit anon xDDD ur so random and badass xDDD bet u got an EPIC one liner if they ever messed with u xDDD BAZINGA!!!!!!! XD

>>20240258
whoa we a got a badass.jpg

>>20239880
>the future of shopping
In a world full of shitskins?

>>20239880
>at self checkout
>scan small item
>place in bag or whatever
>its too light so machine doesn't detect it
>PLEASE PLACE ITEM IN BAGGING AREA
>b.b.b.ut its in the bagging area

grandma wont figure this out and will need poojet to come and scan his id card

>>20239974
okay nigartes

>>20239908
>>20239890
notice how he left out indians, jews, arabs, atlanteans, central asians like kazakhs.

>do a farty in the amazon store
>olfactory sensor detects beans in the fecal particles i unleashed in the air and charges me for the can of baked beans i sneaked
can't get away with anything nowadays...

>Grab 1 of 2 pineapples
>Doesn't scan so have to search it and enter quantity
>Put it in bag
>Grab other one and put it in bag
>Light above checkout starts blinking and the display shows an overhead video of me putting the 2nd pineapple in bag
>Wagie has to come over and check if I'm stealing a $2.50 pineapple before I can continue ringing my shit up
Fuck self checkouts. Doing the work for the grocery store but they're sure as shit not paying me or reducing their prices.

>>20239880
Should have been banned by the government to protect people's jobs but I always forget they don't work for us.

>>20240341
Fuck people's jobs. When I'm forced to leave my house I want minimal human contact. I get more than enough of that at work

>>20239880
Too many joggers and makeup enthusiasts using ye old five finger discount. You can't have honor-bound devices in a low-trust society. You need a high trust monoculture, and we don't have that in America.

>>20239887
Nah, they shit themselves about once every 3 visits. I've had one fail to print a receipt, another had it's scale shit the bed, and there was one event where the fucking product they had on display at the door wasn't even in the system. Still needs a wagie when you get age restricted crap too, so annoying.

>>20239931
This is why I like self-checkout. Wagies doing shit for me is great and all, but I don't have 1-2 extra hours free to wait on them to do their fucking job. It is 100% worth my time to scan that shit and GTFO those hell holes as fast as humanly possible. I'd go full Amazon if I could, but I don't live in the Amazon fresh areas, and the nearby farmers market shitbags want way too much for things I don't need.

>>20239880
Nobody going to put into context its LA? No shit imagine trying to run a business there

>>20240400
what is the reason?

>>20240370
Office jobs (and most work) should all be remote. That's the gov fucking us again by preventing it from happening.

>>20240417
>(and most work)
Yeah man I should be able to remotely maintain/repair robots on the factory floor

>>20239880
they were monitoring to see people shoplifting to create their social credit score, tying behavior to payment profiles and profiles to digital ID. with that task accomplished, they can be removed to cut down on inventory shrinkage (theft).

>>20239885
whomst among us has not charged organic produce as regular

>>20240310
looks like it’s off to Amazon jail for you, anon…bean nice knowing you…

>>20240084
nothing wrong with a members only store
does this also help to keep the prices down?

>>20240087
I go to the one in massapequa because it's on my way home and is open until 10 so I can usually get there on time
but I have to lay low for a while since I dropped cottage cheese on the floor yesterday and it broke and went everywhere so now I'm embarrassed to go back

>> 20240261
>> 20240262
good cattle, don't forget to tip!

I hope this happens to my local Walmart. The self-checkouts actually outnumber proper manned registers, I'm not even kidding.

>>20240297
Do jews even do menial jobs? I thought they all work in banks and law firms.

>>20240087
>>20240484
Based fellow Long Islanders
I work in a Stop and Shop in Suffolk County :)

>>20240515
I had sex behind the stop and shop in valley stream.

I am trans btw.

>>20240514
almost every Jew i know under 60 work bitch jobs in retail or at a co-op.

>>20239880
I stop at a local convenience store, in the morning. NOBODY uses the automated check-out. They all get in line to the cashiers, who we all know, because nobody wants to deal with an automated checkout, in the morning. Plus, niggers steal everything.

>>20239880
pretty gay, literally quicker for me to scan my own shit than wait in line

>>20240550
I met a fat girl on craigslist and jerked off on her tits behind that 7-11 on hicksville road right before hempstead tpk

>all these retards that consider it le redpilled to use self-checkout
enjoy doing the grocery store's job for free because you're socially inept

>>20240826
>for free
I always make sure they give me a little tip

>>20240297
Central asians are cool

>>20240084
It's a grocery store, ain't it? One would assume they have "real" bagels. What an odd thing to say.

>>20240826
>you HAVE TO wait in line for 20 minutes so the cashier can scan your two items or else the grocery stores win!
I'll do whatever saves me time.

>>20239970
former waigie here, yeah it is you fucking nigger.
Lost my job because you worthless cunts stole shit so much my store closed. Fuck you.

>>20239880
>US and their 3rd world technology

>>20239885
Is this why my inventory numbers are always fucked up?

>>20240884
It's a jewish thing

>>20240849
I'm only part Mongolian rape baby. Am I cool?
>>20240884
Supermarket bagels are fucking awful but better than bagged ones which are better than those horrid frozen ones.
Why are frozen pretzels generally decent but frozen bagels such shit, anyway? They're basically the same thing, differing only in shape

>>20240431
schizo scenario

>>20240136
If they did that, people would stop ordering produce online
Retard

>>20239880
>have a nice mostly peacful and trusty huwhite civilization
>let the kikes and their statless golems from the left and the right bring billions of brown "people" in

What could go wrong.

>>20239958
worse than a groid
a white leftist

>>20240117
I would but im dieting and could use tying cardio to routine.

>>20239880
Huh?
Why would they disappear? In this little Europoor country I'm from, they're more popular than using a human to scan your groceries.

>>20240826
>wait in 5 meter line
>some fat asses filled up their cart to the top with candies in front of you
>takes 20 minutes till your turn comes
>because this new cashier scans so slowly
>if you have several same items they'll scan just 1
>other unscanned items causes electrical infetterence
>"would you like to buy a lottery ticket"?
>"do you have a loyalty card"?
>"no? Oh, dear. Does anyone has loyalty card here? Oh thank you sir, let's scan it."
>"Would you like to get a loyalty card? No? Are you sure? OK then."
>Alternatively have to put your shit in bags as fast as you can because cashier is scanning 2 items per second, will be done before you put everything in bags, will ask for payment and immediatelly starts scanning other people items while you still trying to put everything in
I get it, feeling like you're served is something in American culture, hard to let it go. But some things are better to do yourself.

>>20240100
>>20240193
>>20240244
Why are you subhumans here? KYS

I only use them at ALDI because

1. they're cash only
2. the dumb people are afraid of them

Meanwhile at stores like REWE you have hipsters trying to scan their organic blue kelp grass drink glass bottle from every angle because hurr what is a barcode and then their Apple iWatch fails to iPay and they go ENTSCHULDIGUNG?????

>>20239880
self-checkouts have never been my thing.
You had a 75% or better chance, anyway, of some error and needing a supervisor for help, which slowed you down anyway. Bagging it yourself is also stupid, especially if you can't lift it up in the air as you go. I want the registers manned by humans, and a conversation about the weather or was everything alright. 10 items or less is good enough for speed.

Plus, I hear the false accusation rate is scary high. I don't need a mugshot to ruin my hard-earned credentials and career forever because the store is too cheap to run their business right.

>>20239880
nah I'll be self checkouting till I fucking die, if they remove it from my local grocery I'm just stealing, I can't go back to interacting with humans

>>20240978
>false accusation rate is scary high
One store in my area kept accusing me of theft even though I literally never stole anything. This kept going until I made a Karen-like scene over it. No accusations since and the manager gives me a game-ass "hi, how are ya?" now.
Weirdly, they only accused me when I went alone, not when I was with the missus or our kid. One time, I asked why they thought I was stealing and they said, I shit you not, that it was because I put stuff back on the shelf. I'm like "that's literally the opposite of theft, you fucking idiot!"
I had something in my trolley then decided that I didn't want it afterall and put it back where I found it. I guess being a considerate person and putting the mayonnaise back in the mayonnaise section rather than leaving it in frozen foods or whereverthefuckelse is suspicious behaviour these days.
I'm okay with them watching me and scrutinising my movements throughout the store but don't say shit to me and especially don't accuse me of anything.

>>20239887
where I'm at you just scan in wares on a phone while picking up groceries, then scan a code on your screen at the self-checkout, no one actually uses the classic self checkout.
also can someone print screen the article? it's region locked

>>20240893
You lost your job because some corpo decided he wanted 2 yatchs instead of one. Keep falling for it, goy

>she doesn't scan organic produce as regular
>she doesn't enter bulk foods as the cheapest option per weight
ngmi

>>20240297
That's the racist part!

>>20239908
Our community deserves respect too.
t. The Most Racist Man in the World.

>>20240100
Walmart it is, person of unknown color and background.

>>20240150

>>20240084
How does this prevent just changing the stickers?

>>20240440
Sounds Great!

>>20241178
Dylan, you crazy motherfucker... Why did I read that comic...

>>20240515
>Based fellow Long Islanders
you cannot be based and be from long island.
the entire fucking landmass needs to be sank into the ocean.
t. upstater.

>>20240117
>doesn't go in and look at all the ass
>posts frogs
incels are truly living wrong on every level.

>>20240280
>grandma
a person that should never be in a grocery store.
simple as.

>>20241105
>she

>>20241228
/ck/ is a majority female board, tourist

>>20241228
How new are you?

>>20241228
die moid

>>20241178
>can draw a guy decapitated and tortured for eternity in an AI robotic fantasy dystopian nightmare
>cant draw a penis tho that would be too shocking

I hate americans

>>20239880
I fucking love being treated like a thief and having the security wagie demand to check my bags while 20 niggers walk past him just carrying stuff they didn't pay for

>>20241222
Sodomite.
Hide that subhuman ass stuff in your own home, monkey.

>>20241292
Check out Euro art....

Take it from someone who just got out of retail management after 12 years, these things just aren't worth it. Not only do staff have to baby them anyway, but they're the easiest fuckers to steal from and I assure you that a LOT of people have no problems committing theft when they don't think anyone's watching. Protip, an awful lot of canned food is the same weight, 400g. Scan a cheap can of foods then put a can of expensive chilli down, it doesn't know the difference because all it's looking for is the item weight.

Considering how expensive they are to buy, install, and maintain, it costs less in the long run to just hire a cashier. The huge upside to humans is that during downtime you can have them go do other jobs.

>>20239887
The sensitivity is adjustable. Stores with lots of shrinkage have the most sensitive self checkout machines. Stores in areas with little have thing adjusted to make the customer experience better. It's just another way that living near criminals costs you time and money.

>>20240938
Why is sprite in jail?

>>20239880
they had better not eliminate them at my local fred Meyer
I live ina town with a high median age and alot of the boomers don't understand how to use self check so it usually has an open slot or a line only a few people long
the attendants and attentive so even when something does go wrong they fix it in pretty short order
also, the only person I know who steals from self-check and shop lifts in general is my wife's roastie, kike, bpd "friend" who can't hold a job or a boyfriend and is constantly broke because she has no impulse control and "needs" to go on international trips and live in the city

>>20241332
When they try to stop me for a receipt check I just ignore them and keep going. If its that big a deal for them they can waste a cop's time before I let them waste mine. But then, I have never used self check out, and I never will. If I wanted to be a cashier I'd be a fucking cashier.

>>20240379
>>20241348
>>20239887
Self checkouts shitting themselves has nothing to do with the area you're in and everything to do with competence at the company you're shopping at. The big supermarket near me is near a relatively bad part of town but I could count on one hand the number of times I've had an issue with their self checkouts, they're just fast and work. The company I just left had self checkouts that were fucking abysmal despite being in the same sort of area. Failing to weigh items properly was only the tip of the iceberg honestly. Sometimes the printer would fail, sometimes they'd crash when someone scanned their store membership card, sometimes they'd straight up refuse to either let the customer pay or clear the transaction forcing staff to reboot the whole thing by spam pressing the reboot button on screen that would only appear for half a second once this particular error happened. There was a period of about 12 months where they wouldn't play an audio message saying whether the customer's payment had gone through, meaning lots of customers would use their contactless, assume it worked, and leave with a bunch of free shopping because the card machine just didn't work without them knowing.

The failure of self checkouts is a symptom of the competence crisis more than anything honestly. Never hire a manager with a business degree.

>>20240084
Why is that black female wearing clothes that literally shows the bottom of her asscheek in public?

>>20241360
Joggers
>>20241344
Walmart has ones now that combine weight and a camera to detect if you swapped an item out. They're generally set to favor the customer by minimizing false positives but if your cans looks quite different or you do your swap right over the scanning area, it will flag you for manual review, complete with video.

>>20240975
They're valid questions. Designing a system that only works in the best case scenario is competence crisis 101.

>>20241378
Policies and equipment vary by company but you are 100% incorrect that they're not adjusted by the level of theft in an area. But you sound like you know everything about everything, so doubt I can convince you of things I have first hand experience with setting up, therefore you may consider this a person concession to you. Dance around and enjoy your dopamine. Everybody else: this kid is babbling on about shit he doesn't know anything about. Same company with the same equipment will behave differently in the middle of Baltimore than it does in Cherry Creek where there's little theft.

>>20241390
Solving the problem by making the self checkouts even more expensive only makes cashiers look even better. If you want the checkout to know if an item is correct from a picture of it, that means the checkout has to know what EVERY SINGLE ITEM IN STORE LOOKS LIKE FROM EVERY ANGLE, assuming the picture it takes of the item you scanned was even good enough. Sounds like middle management attempting to solve problems the only way they know how: by being stupid.

>>20241404
I have first hand experience actually working in a store you stupid fuck. You have NO IDEA of the scale of petty theft, and neither does the company. Every piece of stock that can't be accounted for gets thrown into one giant "leakage" figure. But leakage encompasses lots of things, like damaged stock, out of date stock, and stock that never arrived.

I promise you, the self checkouts where I worked were not shit because of theft in the area. Our regular customers avoided using them because of just how bad they were. Sometimes they eat money. Like, the customer puts cash in, the checkout takes it, then the checkout sits staring at them as though they haven't put any money in at all. We'd go back on cameras and watch just to verify, and this shit would happen all the time.

You need to stop assuming that large companies are competent, because holy fucking shit dude. Though honestly the company I was at was so badly managed that it would blow your mind. They don't even report profit, they just report losing a mountain of money every now and then and raising prices.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/17/co-op-group-loses-billions-failings-in-management

A few years ago they quietly reported a half billion pound loss. Not in operating costs, but they'd literally just lost the money. As in, had no fucking idea where half a billion in cash had gone. Fucking lmao don't talk to me about where I've fucking worked.

>>20239880
I usually only stole a few things ta a time so this doesn't really bother me.

>buy five chicken broth containers
>scan 2
>save $10 off a $70 bill
why wouldnt I?

I hate walmart and if they died then actual small businesses could run grocery stores again without having to upcharge $1-3 for every single item

>>20239880
Crushing news for autistic people and those who make embarrassing purchases the world over

>>20240976
The Aldi ones are annoying because the machines yell at you if you're too slow

I always charged organic as regular lol

>>20239880
Funny I can be blamed for things of the past that have no affect on people today, but I can't blame people that are actively doing things today that are actively affecting me.

>>20241428
>hurr durr I know everything about every single grocer out there because I worked for one shitty store by one shitty company hurr durr
>I'm also a europoor to boot!
Fucking lmao don't talk to me about anything ever again you fucking retarded faggot. Stay in your fucking lane you low IQ wage slave.

>>20241041
>also can someone print screen the article? it's region locked

Protip for if you wanna read (written articles only) but it's stuck behind region locking or a pay wall:

Shorten url in a url shortener (I use tinyurl.com)
Copy shortened url into https://12ft.io/

Wala

>>20239880
>One human checker
>Three people standing by the four self check outs
>Two of them are broken
>One is taken by an old lady with an entire huge cart full of groceries scanningn things slowly one at a time
>Try to check out
>Price on the item is completely wrong
>Can't even void the item myself
>Have to stand there because I refuse to pay $8.99 for something that was on sale for $1.99
>Wait for employee
>Stands there confused as to what the problem is for 3 minutes while I tell him I just don't want the item because the price is wrong just scan your ID and hit void I already got you to the menu god damn
I hate self check outs. But at least I can steal shit from most of them.

>>20240379
>Nah, they shit themselves about once every 3 visits
I feel like you don't grasp the concept that you aren't the only person who uses a store.

>>20240341
>Should have been banned by the government to protect people's jobs but I always forget they don't work for us.

Should the gooberment also ban automatic doors and companies should be forced to hire an old-timey doorman in one of those red outfits? Or maybe all elevators should be mandated to have one of those elevator operators, who's only jobs are to press the buttons. Obviously you're way smarter than the rest of us, so you should become the arbiter of what constitutes automation and when it goes too far. I hope to see your name in the ballots one day, I eagerly await your campaign speeches.

>>20241383
She's indian sar

>>20240512
>I hope this happens to my local Walmart. The self-checkouts actually outnumber proper manned registers, I'm not even kidding.

That's not even news to me. I've lived in 3 different states in the last 10 years, on 3 completely different sides of muttmerica. Most Walmarts only have 1 or 2 manned checkouts, and the vast majority of the time nobody's actually working them despite the large amount of employees who hang around the checkout area. Most of the time they have a couple poojeet workers who roam around and """help""" you when their dogshit machines inevitably fuck up and they need to bring their smelly asses over to unlock them for you, but nobody even works the manned register, Walmart and it's poojeets just expect you to always fo self checkout nowadays, that's the default. I don't think I've ever seen anyone working the single manned checkout at my current Walmart, not one single time, and again, this isn't an employee thing because recently the greeters have been asking to see my receipt before I leave, Costco style. But instead of hiring more cashiers, they'll just force existing employees to do more jobs. You see how convenient it is for Walmart? They get to simultaneously hire less people and force those same employees to do more work and have them be another way screen for theft, which is the self checkout's greatest enemy.

It's almost like these billion dollar corporations are pretty smart in how they do whatever it takes to extract the maximum amount of profit from the dirty plebs who buy shit from them. It'd be devious if this was a fictional story, but nah unfortunately it's just real life.

>>20239880
I don't scan items
Mwahahahaahaha

>>20240826
>for free
Lol, you don't seriously think we're doing it for free do you? We get paid more than their on staff cashiers, that's why they're shutting it down.

>>20240379
>>20239884
>>20239880
What’s wrong with sterling from Walmart? Fuck Walmart. I mean me personally I would feel to bad about it to steal but it really isn’t that immoral.

>>20239945

>>20241622
Aldi is not for the weak

>>20239880
Good. I don't work for the fucking store so why do i have to scan and bag my items that go up in price every time i go shopping. Tell you what, give me a 10% discount and I'll use the self checkout.

>>20242303
for some reason, only the elderly and Karen types shop at my Aldi. precisely the kind of people that can't handle Aldi check out

>>20241105
Kek that guy is the closest thing I've seen to an irl pepe

>>20242265
>What’s wrong with sterling from Walmart? Fuck Walmart. I mean me personally I would feel to bad about it to steal but it really isn’t that immoral.
>It's not immoral but my morals are preventing me from stealing. Why don't YOU go do what I am unwilling to do?

>>20240084
These only exist in Seattle. I went to one when I was there and it was pretty based. This could never work in most cities though as shoplifting would be through the roof since there are no wagies in the store.

>>20242342
>This could never work in most cities though as shoplifting would be through the roof since there are no wagies in the store.
The trick is to not let the people of color in the store in the first place unless they had proper authorization to be there. This can be easily done with a revolving door, a computer, and a second locked door on the inside that only lets humans with money inside

>>20241649
actually both of those things are bad (wow!) and the only valid generalization is "generalizations are bad"

>>20241292
rent free, pussy.

>>20239880
I don't actively steal, but if the store only has ORGANIC parsley/cilantrol/etc.. then I ring it up as CONVENTIONAL :)

>>20240105
Here about, high COL Blue State, before 10 AM, there are no regular checkers, so you have to use the selfie lane.

>1 pickle jar gets dropped
>suddenly 6 checkout lanes are unusable
That's not even touching on how merely the perception of easier fraud just invites more fraud

>>20239887
The biggest problem with manned checkout stands is when you get stuck behind some old fart who wants to write a check, some Karen who wants to debate every single one of the stack of coupons she brought with her, and all the other various queers holding up the line.

If grocery stores started applying the same methods they used at self-checkout and have one line that serves multiple manned registers, things would go much more smoothly.

>>20240938
They'll lock up the product but not the thief.

>>20241657
>gets BTFO
>no reply, can only go "y-yeah well you're a wagie h-haha..."

>>20242862
Products don't start riots and fires when they're punished

>>20239884
I've stolen full to the brim carts by pretending to do the scan and go on the app. The boomers at the receipt check don't know that I'm just showing them my cart.

>>20240512
walmart is one of the places reducing the number of self checkouts, or removing them completely. especially in high crime areas.

>>20242874
Wasn't even the guy you responded to, just telling it how it is. Love making low IQ wagies seethe lmao. Cry harder while being a cuck.

>>20242975
Or you're marked, they know who you are and they know to let you go until you steal enough to the point a prosecutor will do their job since it becomes a felony charge.

>>20239899
>>20239880
The alternative is using a website or app and the in-store pickup option for small purchases.

>KTLA
Well there's your problem.

Meanwhile, in the Midwest, my local Aldi replaced three or four checkout lanes with six self-checkout stations.

>>20239880
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJCFc_qkHw

>>20240136
>Because stores generally instruct their order pickers to choose the worst-looking fruits and vegetables to fulfill online orders,
Fake news.
t. Former Walmart OPD associate

>>20240665
Gross.
Why didn't you just have her go down on you?

>LA
doesnt everything there have a 5 finger discount anyway?

>>20239885
my mom has been doing this for 15 years
ringing up grapes as bananas n shit

>>20239884
Based illegalism gigachad

>>20240341
They need an horde of desperate unemployed people ready to replace you at all times so you dont get any ideas of unionizing or asking for any workplace improvement of any kind. Its pretty evil.

>>20241378
>everything to do with competence at the company you're shopping at.
Case in point, Costco is notoriously shitty. They hide the scanner guns and you need to get an employee to use them. AT A BULK GOODS STORE. Then they have a warning for heavy items telling you not to put them in the bagging area. Yes, the BULK GOODS STORE decided it would be a good idea to cheap out and get machines with baby scales. Also half the time a wagie tries to come help scan items anyway because "looking busy" is the name of the game at Costco. No, wagie. I chose self-checkout because I didn't want to talk to you because you all seem disgruntled. Look, I don't CARE if you find my hentai sweatshirt with matching hentai sweatpants offensive, I'm a MEMBER. Do better, Costco.

Home Depot does it better, at least when the scanner gun is actually working.

>>20241378
>describes regular wear and tear
>blames "competence crisis"
buzzword NPC detected

>>20239880
My tap water tastes like limestone even after going through several filters so I like the self checkouts ones for when I go buy 2 packs of 6x1.5L bottles of water to the supermarket 100 meters away from me. Sometimes I'm in and out of it in less than 2 minutes. Hope it stays.

>>20239980
>third worlder
Opinion discarded

>>20240926
No they wouldn't, because all the people wanting to use the service are subhumans like the majority of the population.

>>20239958
It sounds nice and noble when you think the faceless corporation is the only loser here and everyone else is the winner. In reality you just end up with
>more invasive and unpleasant security
>facial recognition cameras
>expensive items locked in cabinets you need staff to open
>RFID-alarmed packaging
>wagies forced to keep a closer eye out for shoplifting even if they don't care
>a generally more hassling and frustrating shopping experience
>higher prices

Maybe they're going away in the South but I'm in Massachusetts and Walmart just replaced almost all of its registers with self checkouts
I think retailers in high crime areas will probably get rid of them though, and also install those pawn shop cage doors at the entrance

the banning of free bags upsets me more. now im going to have to steal to teach them a lesson about unintended consequences

>>20239880
they will keep them in the white conservative areas
stay mad

>>20241220
Shirley here.
I agree 100%.

>>20240117
been doing this since the scamdemic. it's a great way to avoid minorities and poors.
>put it in the trunk, wagie

>If grocery stores started applying the same methods they used at self-checkout and have one line that serves multiple manned registers, things would go much more smoothly.

Every single place did this during the early stages of covid where there was one neatly spaced out line with those little divider stickers and ropes to delineate the line from the aisles. Grocery shopping was never better.

>>20240150
what is this "major catastrophe"?

>>20239887
What in the fuck are you doing to get them to shit themselves? I only ever need to have an attendant come over when I buy beer. Are you fucking retarded?

>>20239884
Damn straight. Best is stealing fancy cheeses
>Small
>Easy to "forget" to scan
>Completely optional item so don't want to spend money on it
>Always like $10, so even if you're caught (lol) it's not such a huge deal
2ez

>>20245063
Not her, but lots of things will cause then to fuck up. "Unknown item in bagging" area when there's no item in the bagging area is a common problem as well as "item removed from bagging area" when no item was removed from the bagging area. The occasionally fuck up when dealing with discounted items because the lesser price doesn't match what the system thinks the item should weigh. I even saw one just reboot itself in the middle of some lady scanning her shit yet I've never seen that happen with the manned tills.

>>20240884
As a japanman the one thing I regret is you can't get a good bagel in a country with no jews.

>>20245274
Great things come at a cost.

>>20241178
this is basically just "I have no mouth yet I must scream." harlan ellison is gonna sue you

>>20241615
>Crushing news for autistic people and those who make embarrassing purchases the world over

>>20239880
I wish this was a real trend instead of a thing that happened in a couple of places and will probably be reversed once they implement better tracking systems.

>>20240826
luddite

>>20240826
I didn't know baby boomers browsed /ck/

>>20245442
are you kidding me? it's been bloated with clueless boomers since the cringe magapede shit from 2016. if anything it's gotten a bit better but there's still a ton of them

>>20239880
These only work in a high trust society. When you've got goblinos and jamals running around, they don't work.

>>20244159
>>20244183
The competence crisis is real. Unfortunately not everything in life can be as smooth as the smooth, silky taste of Frisky Feast cat feed. Whether you buy it at self checkout, or from the gentleman clerk, it works every time.

>>20239884
>>20242265
>>20242975
>>20244120
>>20245108
>>20243733
>>20240258
I'm a straight white male and I disapprove these messages.
Now I have to wait in line again because of you fucking "ethnics" and your petty sociopath ways.
>>20240260
Oh thank heavens it's region based, I was concerned for a moment.

>>20245274
bagels aren't jewish, they stole bagels from another culture.

>>20245479
>gentleman clerk
What if the clerk isn't a gentleman?

is this a fucking /r9k/ thread? retard gathering

I visited America (the land of the free) for the first time back in april.
Went to a grocery store, and it had like 30 small checkouts with one worker at each station, who packed the groceries in front of you will they scanned them.
The fucking weirdest set up. The store wasn't even big (I was in Jew York). Yet had 30 people working just in the checkout. Where I'm from like 6 is enough for a store that is 2-3 times bigger.

Is this normal or just a NY thing? Also, they all waved numbered signs every time their checkout was free.

>>20245516
New York is basically a city-state with a sovereign authority over the surrounding state that predates the founding of the US, nowhere else in the country is like it
Politically, maybe, but not both politically, culturally, and geographically

>>20244263
waaaah.. waaaaaaaaaaaaaah?

>>20245695
>both
>lists three things
I'm sorry I'm retarded please don't let that rub off on you

>>20239880
>be grocery monopoly
>keep raising prices
>install self-check out lanes
>act surprised when Tyrone and Pablo don't pay

>>20245740
Tyrone is apparently an Irish name, and that's good enough for me. Fuck walmart.

>>20245913
And Jerome is French for Jeremy. Doesn't stop a certain segment of American society naming their kids that.

>>20240150
There's only one jew in that image.

>>20245740
oh wow look at me im white so that means im smart and make smart decisions like pay big corporations hyper inflated prices while i look down at the smart chads who scan a ps4 as a banana at walmart and go to my home and fuck my wife. get out of here

>>20246065
retard

>>20246081
Nigger behaior is nigger behaivor, regardless of who you stole it from. Maybe you should commit to more honorable acts such as dispensing vigilate justice on nonces and other miscellanious criminals.

>>20246468
So you're saying I should burn down my local walmart?

>>20245449
>if anything it's gotten a bit better
80%+ of this god forsaken site is non-American since the Covid lockdowns. American boomers and bots would unironically improve it.

>>20245288
Huh? My post was one of empathy. I am that autistic person who makes embarrassing purchases. You think I, as a 6'3 adult male, wanna walk up a cashier with a bunch of Pokemon cards?

>>20240926
>if you charged people more for worse quality the business would collapse
Yea that's why fast food chains are filing for bankruptcy left and right. Because lazy NPCs have standards, right?

>>20246721
Americans are terrible posters, always have been

>>20240975
I kinda envy you for living somewhere that these kind of questions never occur to you

>>20244263
To the contrary, they are the pickiest people on earth. What would you expect from someone whom deems themself too good to do their own shopping, grace and humility?

This is literal FUD, large grocery chains aren't eliminating self checkouts. Huge companies, the Walmarts, Amazons, Delhaizes and Krogers of the world, know they will have things scanned wrong and will lose some money/product to the checkouts. It's called shrink, and every retailer accounts for it in their maths; large stores can absorb more shrink because they also sell far more product.
To Walmart, Kroger, etc, the savings of running a self checkout system are worth the increased shrink-- don't have to pay a wagie to stand at the counter, you only need one or two for about 20 checkouts now, the other workers can do more floor work, people can check themselves out as fast or faster than the typical granny they'd put on the register in the first place, faster lines means more transactions per hour, which is more money per day, custies are more satisfied by a convenient and fast experience and likely to return, so on.
You see self check disappearing from places like ALDI, which runs on razor thin margins as the deepest discount retailer, ShopRite and KeyFood, which aren't a chain in the typical sense (it's a co-branded confederation of independently owned stores, essentially franchises) and overall smaller chains like Trader Joe's or Fresh Market.

TL;DR these articles are Jewish fudding designed to scare you and demoralize you, an attempt to scare you into ringing up your fruits correctly or sacrificing what little control you have at the store. Don't believe their lies.

>>20246969
>You think I, as a 6'3 adult male, wanna walk up a cashier with a bunch of Pokemon cards?
That depends: do you have a kid? I'm a 6'1 adult male and buy kid shit all the time for my kid.

>>20240969
This
Fuck regular registers
The only place with competent cashiers is costco, and that's because they're being whipped and work in teams of two

>>20245281
from the grave?

>>20239880
What's the reason? I'm not going to go hunt down an article you couldn't even be bothered to link, so just tell me.

Also, my local Kroger just expanded the number of self-checkouts a couple months ago by adding in new ones that have a conveyor belt intended for larger grocery hauls. I have a hard time believing this story is even true when I've seen nothing but expansion to self-checkouts in recent months.

>>20240969
>have to put your shit in bags as fast as you can because cashier is scanning 2 items per second
Do non-American grocery stores not have baggers at every register?

Remember to file wage claims for any time you spent doing self-checkout.

>>20248338
>wage claims
Is this a Euro thing? In the US employers just pay their employees, we don't have to file claims to collect our pay.

I go at 8am for half price meat. It's the only way to survive in Canada.
No lines then obviously.

>>20240136
They also charge 50x as much for things like potatoes and don't offer most items.

>>20245063
>>20245206
One time I scanned an item and forgot to put it in the bag until after a few seconds because I was reaching for my other stuff first. I then put it in the bag and the machine stopped and displayed SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY DETECTED and played a loop of the video of me putting shit in a bag without having run it over the scanner 2.5 seconds previously until the cashier came over to clear it.

>>20241222
stop looking at peoples kids, anon

>>20240512
>The self-checkouts actually outnumber proper manned registers
My local Walmart doesn't have a single manned register left, it's all been converted to self-checkout.

>>20248403
>scan item and place it in bag in one motion
>machine loses its fucking mind because it wasn't ready to detect the scanned item yet

>scan item and wait 1 second before putting it in the bag
>machine loses its fucking mind because it wants me to put the item in the bag faster

You literally just can't win. There's like a .25 second window where the machine will accept the item in the bag without complaining and if you miss it you just have to stand there waiting for it to calm down and stop acting like a hysterical woman.

>>20248349
No it's an american thing. Like if you were an internet moderator, all of that time you spent can be filed as a wage claim and the company has to pay you.

>>20239884
>BRAGS about stealing.
Nigger detected.

>>20239884
based

>>20248415
how do people buy liquor?

>>20240150
no I posted a random picture of people dancing happily. I don't care one lick of your moms clit, who's in it.

>>20248417
This is all down to how the store sets the machines up. They have a lot of settings for how sensitive it is about weight or camera detection and all that kind of shit. If you are in a high theft area the machines will be so psychotic that it's honestly not worth it even if you're using them legitimately and not doing any bullshit.

>>20249027
The one wagie overseeing like 6 machines comes over and hits the "customer is over 40 years old" button without checking your id

I don't think they're going anywhere. The grocery chain where I live made a big show about how they weren't going to use self checkout five or so years ago because they cared about the customer and blah blah blah. They just added them in last year and usually only have one checkout line with a cashier now.

>>20248333
>Do non-American grocery stores not have baggers at every register?
They don't have grocery stores outside of America. Aldi was actually invented in the US. Non-Americans just wave at a plane overhead until it drops "cargo".

>>20249204
sad way to admit u look over 40 bro

>>20248545
it's true, I've actually filed a few wage claims for all the 4chan posts I reported and they've approved most of them

>>20248417
ironically thats a huge theft weakness
all u do is scan things like a normal cashier would and chuck em in the bag
machine starts freaking out
worker comes over
thinks yeah this happens all the time and lets u carry on
meanwhile ive snuck 4 steaks into my bag

i haven't paid for saffron or vanilla extract since those things came out.

one time i stole like $200 of work clothes from walmart.

catch me if you can, faggots.

>>20242265
White people are traveling to steal from grocery stores in predominantly black areas to deliberately create food deserts.
Not even being ironic. I’ve seen Facebook groups dedicated to such a thing

>>20249795
Sounds like some serious glownigger shit.

>>20249731
I'm a visible alcoholic, they can tell i'm a professional and don't need to put my shaky hands through the task of getting my id out

>>20245486
I’ll have you know I’m a well-off white man and I’m still stealing shit. Fuck grocery stores

>>20239880
Lmao they're here to stay where I live. Must suck living in a LITERAL shithole.

>>20239880
in my country they tried self-checkout at some places but it didn't work. for example the first time I had a chance to use a self-checkout it was a weird experience because
A- it was 5 items or less
B- there was a girl sitting in a chair and she grabbed the items and checked them onto the machine thus killing the "self" part
C- the girl gave you a QR code paper that you had to take to the cashier near the entrance to pay.

everything about this was stupid and idiotic and made no fucking sense

>>20250275
Will you please tell us what mega thirdie shit hole this story is from? Sounds like literally nigeria

>>20250284
here

>>20239880
>store has sale every month
>put like 40-50 things on sake
>They're all priced between 1 and 2 dollars, maybe with a couple higher priced items in there
>if you buy 8 of those items they're all a dollar
>baked beans are on the sale(normally like $2.69 a can), get 7 cans for bbqs in the summer.
>decide to get a pack of jalapenos(normally $1.79) because I was making nachos the next day
>get a pack of beer too
>walk up to self scan
>titty monster goth girl attendant walks up to scan my ID after I scan the beer and the beans
>takes my bags and beer and out them in the cart with me while flirting
>not paying attention I clscan my card and finish up
>say bye to her, didn't try to get digits
>on the ride home I realized I didn't scan the jalapenos
>stole $1.79 worth of merch
>realize I didn't have 8 items on the sale so I played full price for the beans, x2.7 more

>>20245108
in some lidls here they put those anti theft stickers on fancy cheese and keep most of the stock in the storage room