>his supermarket doesn't have automatic checkouts

[Anonymous No.10404489]

[Anonymous No.10404498]

I don't care if there isn't because I either buy week's worth of groceries or nothing at all and so those'd see no use from me tbqh.

[Anonymous No.10404511]

>>10404498
they are pretty great if you forget a couple things or want to change it up sometime during the week and have to make a trip for like 5-10 items

if I am buying my week's shit all at once then I make the wagies do everything for me but the lines can get long sometimes if you only have a few things

[Anonymous No.10404596]

>>10404489
I absolutely despise self check out.
About 7 years ago when the first ones started to appear in my stores I was like alright bet this looks great.
But now I refuse to use them. They are literally designed to make us work for the store for free. I demand an employee discount if I’m going to have to do the job of someone who used to work there. The other issue is most of the stores in my area have gotten rid of every single cashier and only have these things; until you’ve made the mistake of going to the store the day all the WIC gets handed out and the self checkout is the only open checkout you don’t know true pain.

Fuck self check out, fuck capitalist swine making me work for free, and fuck stores that only open one additional aisle.

[Anonymous No.10404600]

>>10404596
reddit spacing

[Anonymous No.10404608]

I always have trouble with these things because they are never maintained properly. I'd rather just shove all my shit on a conveyor belt and let the cashier do it all. I even have a bagger to bag my stuff for me, so I can just stand and wait.

[Anonymous No.10404616]

>>10404596
>less employees
>lower overhead
>lower cost to do something anyone can do

[Anonymous No.10404624]

Those things scare me, they are designed to make queues faster and that puts a lot of pressure on me. What do I have to do? What buttons do I push? Do I put everything together? What if the laser doesn't work? What if the code is damaged? What if my card is refused? Meanwhile there are other people in a hurry looking at me and wondering why I'm so slow, judging me and remembering my face.
Fuck this shit.

[Anonymous No.10404631]

>>10404489
>he works as a cashier 3/x a week
good goy, very convenience. cook your own food at the self serve bbq restaurant as well

[Anonymous No.10404636]

the local supermarkets in my town open around 7am, but only turn the automatic checkouts on at 8am - 9am due to high amounts of shoplifting from people heading to work (my town has a meth problem).
there is times i have literally waited for 45 minutes in my car, smoking cigs and waiting for them to turn the automatic checkouts on.

[Anonymous No.10404684]

>>10404636
>meth
Cumskins are subhuman savages. Sad!

[Anonymous No.10404698]

>>10404631
Truth right here

You're also putting someone else out of a job.

[Anonymous No.10404703]

>>10404596
>I always go to the cheapest store so they're all desperate to cut any and all cost so I won't go to the competition
>But it's the store's fault everything is cut to the bone.

Just go to the expensive store bro, they have people ready to serve you until they're faced with the choice of getting self-checkout or going bankrupt because they're expensive and everybody shops elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.10404712]

>>10404684
Meth is truly great. Getting hooked on meth is retard core

[Anonymous No.10404769]

>>10404596
>he gets mad and feels exploited when he has to bag his own groceries
wew

[Anonymous No.10404783]

I only shop at night, after 10 and they're all closed, so I never get to use them

[Anonymous No.10404798]

>>10404489
my local IGA used to but now theyre gone

my guess is people just used them to look like they're paying instead of having to be craftier when shoplifting

[Anonymous No.10405286]

My supermarket opens until 24 hours and has auto checkouts
Feels really good to have snacks at night without having to talk to people, and be able to use my change without a fuss. Never queue either.
Life couldn't be more perfect.

[Anonymous No.10405382]

Using these is no quicker than an employee checkout - it just feels quicker because you spend less time doing nothing. I have no objection to destroying minimum wage jobs, but if you expect me to waste my time towards that end I expect to be compensated with a reduction in price.

[Anonymous No.10405410]

>>10405382
The "reduction" in price has already come in the fact that food prices have remained pretty flat.

[Anonymous No.10405446]

>avocados
>ring up as apples

Like fuck I'm paying $2.50 for one of those green bastards

[Anonymous No.10405499]

I just use my own cloth bags and leave shit in them without scanning lmfao

expensive as fuck thing of spices? You bet your ass that's staying in the bag as the top conveniently sags down ands hides it from eyeshot. package of almond flour that's obscenely overpriced? never leaving I'd soft fabric castle. and when I'm done I just move the shit from the weighing area back to the cloth bags and walk out. I've probably stolen about $600 worth of food and product since my stop n shop installed these last year. never felt better

[Anonymous No.10405677]

>>10404489
>automatic
>you can't just drive the cart through, you have to stand there and swipe every fucking item item yourself

That's manual, not automatic. I'd rather someone else do that for me.

[Anonymous No.10405686]

>>10405382
I find them to be a lot slower than an employee checkout. The self-checkouts always have a pause after scanning each item while the machine checks the weight. That delay doesn't exist with employee checkout. Furthermore, it's aways an annoying hassle to buy anything that requires checking ID at a self checkout.

[Anonymous No.10405825]

>>10404596

Agreed. I'd say I won't patronize a store that does this but it's all of them at this point

[Anonymous No.10405839]

UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA

[Anonymous No.10405844]

As far as I'm concerned, it's perfectly acceptable to give yourself discounts when using self checkouts. I'm doing the labor, so why shouldn't I be compensated for it?

[Anonymous No.10405860]

>>10405446
>please put your A P P L E S in the bag
>wage slave: hey, those arent apples

[Anonymous No.10405874]

>>10404596
>working for free because a robot replaced you

This is a new level of retarded. Here's your (you).

[Anonymous No.10405929]

>>10404596
The only thing I hate about self check out is that it never seemes to work
>scan item
>put item in bag
>put inside bag
>put item in bag
>dafuq? It's already in the bag
>take it out and out it back in
>error, please wait for assistance
EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

[Anonymous No.10405990]

>>10404489
I do my grocery shopping at Whole Foods.

[Anonymous No.10406033]

I don't work there therefore I am not doing the employees duties.

[Anonymous No.10406055]

handheld scanners > belt type self checkout > bagging area type self checkout > human interaction

[Anonymous No.10406064]

>tfw half are always broken
>tfw an elderly person holds one up for half an hour
>tfw people don't know how to fucking line up for these and put their carts in the space between the checkouts
>tfw stupid kids try buying beer then high tail it when an employee walks over
>tfw unwanted item in the bagging area on every item
>tfw hispanic or indian family is buying a fucking stockpile worth of shit using one of these

[Anonymous No.10406116]

>>10404596
>laugh at guy who hates self-checkouts
>complain about not having jerbs
The state of millenials

[Anonymous No.10406189]

>>10404596
The discount is when you ring up your organic produce as bananas

[Anonymous No.10406419]

>>10404703
>Just go to the expensive store bro, they have people ready to serve you until they're faced with the choice of getting self-checkout or going bankrupt because they're expensive and everybody shops elsewhere.
The upper end grocers around here don't have self checkout machines and never will. They are unlikely to go out of business, unless the economy implodes, and I really mean implodes, not just suffers a recession or even a depression.
Those stores are where the housekeepers for the old money shop, they don't pay in the store it goes on a tab, and then it all gets boxed up and delivered, because god forbid even the help should need to lift a finger.
I wish I could shop there all the time, but I'm not old money, and the extra $15-25 it would add to my weekly grocery bill hurts my budget too much. The produce is nice and not that much more expensive though.

[Anonymous No.10406856]

>>10405382
>>>10405686
>using queue
>it's ten persons long
>i-it's much faster!

[Anonymous No.10406867]

>>10405844
because it is stealing and you can be prosecuted for it maybe

[Anonymous No.10406881]

The best and cheapest grocery store in my town doesn't have these they have a competent staff instead.

[Anonymous No.10406982]

>>10404489

[Anonymous No.10406989]

>>10405860
>he doesn't turn off the volume when scan scamming
pleb

[Anonymous No.10406992]

>>10404489
>automatic means you have to do it yourself
What happened to technology?

[Anonymous No.10407016]

>>10406189
This

[Anonymous No.10407052]

I'm Dutch and stayed in Australia for a while, Aussie self checkouts are shit, the weight-check thing that prevents stealing only works instantly half of the time, it's pretty slow and awkward to use. In the Netherlands self-checkout has no weight check, we only have random sample checks by employees from time to time, way better. Still love Aussie supermarkets though.

[Anonymous No.10407059]

>>10407052
>Aussie self checkouts are shit, the weight-check thing that prevents stealing only works instantly half of the time, it's pretty slow and awkward to use
Stop going to coles mate

[Anonymous No.10407063]

>>10407059
Had the same shit in woolies, maybe I'm just retarded. They're nice to get rid of spare coins though.

[Anonymous No.10407135]

>>10404489
My store actually got rid of them for some reason. Now I have to stand in a long line half the time if I want to get some lunch there or buy a few things after work. At least the customers are often nice enough to let me go ahead if they see I'm wasting my lunch time in line.

[Anonymous No.10407372]

>>10405839

[Anonymous No.10407409]

>>10404489
I spend $5k a year at your establishment could you atleast get some non-laggy pieces of fuck?

Also fuck fucking assholes that use these when they aren't faster than a fucking cashier. Fuck off with your 50 coupons.

[Anonymous No.10408053]

>please wait for assistance
>cashier is missing, talking to her friend thirty feet away or dealing with the old lady with fifty expired coupons on the other machine

[Anonymous No.10408085]

>have one item
>all four machines are currently being used by fat dipshits with overflowing carts
there needs to be a rule

[Anonymous No.10408105]

>>10408085
i'm nearly certain the unspoken rule about self checkout was it's for people who just want to come in to buy something real quick and leave as fast as they came in. or as an "express lane"

[Anonymous No.10408113]

>>10408105
It should be that way but the self checkout always seems to attract the dumbest and slowest motherfuckers. It's always when you're in a rush too. If you can't do it faster than a cashier just go to the cashier.

[Anonymous No.10408116]

>>10408105
yeah, but nobody where i live seems to comprehend that

[Anonymous No.10408130]

>>10408113
>>10408116
reminds me every day at work
>finally on break
>get to self checkout
>its the morning rush and retards don't know how to scan items
>just want to pay for my drink so i can finally sit my ass down

[Anonymous No.10408163]

>>10408105
Half the grocery stores I've been to only have at best one or two cashiers available at any given time. Which means everyone with cartloads of food either has to wait in line for a fucking hour or go through the self-checkout.

It sucks ass but I can't blame the customers. It's the store's fucking fault for not having actual employees on staff to handle those people.

[Anonymous No.10408187]

>>10404489
shitty stores are much more likely to have them than good stores

[Anonymous No.10408202]

Going to let you guys in to a little secret here with Self Checkout units in stores (I'm 3rd level support for a major chain, often speak with high ups in the business side)
They're operated at a loss and actually slow down the checkout process on average.

The reason why they were originally introduced in the late 90s was from an attempt to help speed up getting customers past the checkout lanes and doing so with less employees. After a decade of pounding the square peg in to the round hole it was deemed to be a failure across the whole industry.
So why is it that it failed in the 2000s but we still see them today? Customers were conditioned to expect them now. Customer serveys show that customers, even if having to go though a slower, more fustrating process for checkout are now so accustomed to seeing them in stores that they demand them.
They literally only exist now due to customer conditioning, not because its good for the customer or business even. When they're installed everyone loses BUT the customer THINKS they won.

Now that many chains are aiming to do delivery and/or order online and pick up in your car, much of the industry that uses SCO lanes are trying to find a way to get rid of them and condition customers to their replacements.

[Anonymous No.10408223]

>>10408163
>Which means everyone with cartloads of food either has to wait in line for a fucking hour or go through the self-checkout.
They don't have that option here. Both stores with self check-outs near me limit you to 15 or less, and yet they only have 1 or 2 cashiers.

[Anonymous No.10408229]

the place I go to regularly got rid of them, which has fucked me over personally

[Anonymous No.10408268]

>>10408202
Thanks for that sometimes this shithole can be good

[Anonymous No.10408276]

>>10404624
There will be an adult nearby to assist you should you have any concerns.

[Anonymous No.10408754]

>store closes at 9PM
>go at 7PM
>they've already closed to self check outs

[Anonymous No.10408892]

>>10404596
Jeez, do you sperg out over filling up your gas tank too?

[Anonymous No.10409060]

>>10405410
The prices are the same regardless of which checkout I use.

[Anonymous No.10409074]

>>10409060
And if the self checkout did not exist your prices would be higher.

[Anonymous No.10409076]

>>10407135
The one grocery store that had it and removed it has been slowly dying for about a decade now. The only reason it still has customers is because it was the first and most convenient one in town for many years.

[Anonymous No.10409127]

With the miracle of NFC we can use our mobile phone to pay for things now but when the security guard is watching me pay and he's hearing the distinctive tones and beeps what he doesn't realize is that's my phone making those noises and I'm not paying diddly squat.

[Anonymous No.10409200]

>Scan item
>Put item in bag
>PLACE SCANNED ITEM IN BAG
>PLACE SCANNED ITEM IN BAG
>PLACE-
>Put item into bag again
>REMOVE UNSCANNED ITEM FROM BAG
>REMOVE UN-
>AN ATTENDANT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED TO ASSIST YOU
I can't decide whether these, or dedicated baggers who put every single item in its own double bag are worse

[Anonymous No.10409218]

>look like decent person, dress well
>Abuse honor system; get a bag of expensive honeycrisp apples, ring them up as cheap shitty red delicious
>pay on average half as much for any produce
>mfw
I enjoy them myself

[Anonymous No.10409219]

I remember some tweaked-out old dude punching the screen of one of these when it started yelling about REMOVE UNSCANNED ITEM, FROM BAGGING AREA, he just went at it until the screen blacked out and was smeared with knuckle blood
Some rent a cop was just standing there saying UMM SIR? SIR? SIR? IMMA NEED YOU TO- SIR? the whole time, a good 6 or 7 punches then he walked out without his groceries

[Anonymous No.10409233]

>>10408892
Fuck no, another 18yo goon demanding a tip for something I should be allowed to do myself is the last thimg I need

[Anonymous No.10409654]

>Colorado
>Literally every large grocery store has self-checkout machines

>Southern California neighborhood with eight-figure homes
>No self-checkout, waiting in line for ten minutes to buy two items worth $6

>Southern California neighborhood near a ghetto
>No self-checkout, waiting in line for ten minutes to buy one item worth $2.50

>Southern California neighborhood near the beach
>No self-checkout, waited in line for 25 minutes while my frozen goods defrosted because one of the two cashiers was on break

>Small city in the Californian desert
>Self-checkout

>Small city in Arizona
>Self-checkout

>Large city in Arizona
>Self-checkout

>Large city in New Mexico
>Self-checkout

GOTT STRAFE CALIFORNIA

[Anonymous No.10409663]

>>10407063
Woolworths disabled the weight check very early on and Coles eventually followed suit.

[Anonymous No.10410298]

>>10409060
>The prices are the same regardless of which checkout I use.

Prices are higher in the parallel universe where they didn't invent self-checkout and you still have to pay the extra staff.

[Anonymous No.10410304]

>>10405382
>Using these is no quicker than an employee checkout - it just feels quicker because you spend less time doing nothing.

Eh, you can fit 6 self-checkout stands in the space taken by 2 normal employee checkout lines, so (assuming people check out as fast as employees could) you *should* get the line reduced at triple speed.

[Anonymous No.10410309]

>>10405839

This, however, takes too much of my god damn time.

[Anonymous No.10410315]

>>10406419
>Those stores are where the housekeepers for the old money shop

Yeah, Cornelius Vanderbilt sure is sending Juanita out to the Whole Foods for his 4.99 box of puffins. It definitely isn't you idolizing anything that isn't an Aldi because you're too poor and stupid to go somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.10410321]

>>10408202
>They show up in stores and chains that have never used them before, even in 2k+18
>But the stores are totally trying to get rid of them you guys

Link the study or get your lying faggotry out of this thread.

[Anonymous No.10410328]

>>10404624
>Fuck this shit.

Listen I want you to understand something: If you're taking your money to a store, you are doing them a service. You don't have to feel bad about ~*anything*~ because if something goes wrong with a self-checkout machine, it's them who fucked up by getting one that wasn't easy to use for their customers.

[Anonymous No.10410331]

>>10406419
>The upper end grocers around here don't have self checkout machines and never will

Around here it's mainly grocers that are small enough to only need one checkout line.

[Anonymous No.10410337]

do people still go to supermarkets? I just order everything except meat and fish online. my fish butcher and meatmonger take care of the rest.

[Anonymous No.10410352]

>>10408892
i sperg when they make me pay for it before
like seriously waste of my time and capitalism at it's worst since now i'm not going to go in and buy coffee and a slim jim

[Anonymous No.10410389]

>>10405860
>implying the wage slave gives a fuck

I know I didn't, it's not my money.

[Anonymous No.10410412]

>>10404616
Thank you for pointing out all the benefits the business receives, because it perfectly contrasts with how the customer receives no benefits; instead, actually gets screwed over.

[Anonymous No.10410510]

>>10410412
>the customer receives no benefits
I can name 3 that are beneficial to the customer
>when register lines are long you can check out much quicker since many are too old or lazy to use self check
>you don't have another persons filthy hands pawing your food especially beneficial during cold and flu season
>for those so inclined, you can easily ring expensive produce up as something much cheaper.

[Anonymous No.10410656]

Sucks as fuck if you're buying stuff in bulk.

Remove one item from bulk packaging, hand to cashier, "24 of these." Beep, put it away, next. "12 of these and 12 of these". Beep. Warp the edge of the sack of dog food to expose the barcode. "Three of these." Cashier reaches over with the scanner, scans, enters x3.

Now imagine doing that at self-checkout. Remove single item, scan, put in the bagging area.

[Anonymous No.10410673]

>>10404489
lel wut, all supermarkets here have them, hell even the tiny ones do now too.

[Anonymous No.10410697]

>>10410304
Faulty assumption. The customer alone has to scan and bag at a self checkout. At a staffed checkout he gets assistance and so the process is quicker.

>>10410656
Keep one of them in your hand to scan repeatedly while you move the others directly from your trolley to your bag.

[Anonymous No.10410715]

>>10410697
>doing work at a place you dont work at.
Thats the problem with self checkout

[Anonymous No.10410763]

>>10404769
>frogposter
>probably doesn't even shop and has mommy do it for him

[Anonymous No.10410803]

>>10410656
>Remove single item, scan, put in the bagging area.
Never heard of this, I scan it repeatedly and put it after.

[Anonymous No.10410817]

Unexpected item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing.
Unexpected item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing.
Unexpected item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing.
Unexpected item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing.
Unexpected item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing.
Unexpected item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing.

[Anonymous No.10410821]

>>10404596
>self serve is evil
Or you're just lazy. Are you the kind of people who goes to bank to make employee takes out money for you?

[Anonymous No.10410970]

>>10410328

[Anonymous No.10411331]

>>10410412
>because it perfectly contrasts with how the customer receives no benefits; instead, actually gets screwed over.

Sounds fake as fuck, you'd use their competition instead if that was actually true

>But the competition is more expensive

Yes, you asshole, that's the benefit they passed on to you.

[Anonymous No.10411335]

>>10410656
>Now imagine doing that at self-checkout. Remove single item, scan, put in the bagging area.

God yes this exact thing. You'd think they could program them to understand the concept but nope, not any of the ones around here.