Some stores are doing away with self checkouts

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Whole Foods and the Giant in Arlington video you during self-checkout. No thanks!

Umm, EVERY store does this. You just may not notice

The issue is that they did not disclose that they were doing so in advance. WF now has palm scanning too to pay. Just a little too big brotherish imo.

You have no expectation of privacy anywhere in public. You are being filmed everywhere you go from the time you step out of your door. No entity has to tell you you are being filmed.

[Anonymous]

I love when I go to NJ and go to Shop Rite...

many many manned checkouts. It's so nice.

I don't think I've seen a self-checkout .

I like having low-skill jobs available. Please no robo arm garbage truck pick ups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When our local Costco got rid of self-checkout, I stopped shopping there. The line for regular checkout was all the way to the back of the store. Ridiculous.

At Sams Club you scan items with your phone as you put them on your cart and then just pay through their app. No lines ever. And they open at 8 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Whole Foods and the Giant in Arlington video you during self-checkout. No thanks!

Umm, EVERY store does this. You just may not notice

Why aren’t you masking like you are supposed to?

Who is supposed to mask?

[Anonymous]

I love self checkout at some stores like Aldi but hate it at Harris Teeter. Aldi has a big space for your reusable bags and doesn't stop working/call for help ever time the weight isn't exact. HT self checkout blows. no space for bags and constantly loses it's sh*t every time something is a little off.

[Anonymous]

I had to go through a regular grocery lane the other day and I remembered why I hate them. The bagger couldn’t finish by the end of ringing and she had no spatial awareness. She also loaded all the heaviest items in one bag. It’s an art form people.

I usually take my full cart through self-checkout and I’m faster than folks with half the items.

I do miss talking to the garage guys, so I’m sad that parking was automated.

GenX

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hate self check so much! Mostly because it is inevitable that the machine malfunctions and then I am left having to explain to the store clerk that I must need to attend another training or be fired because this checker job just is not working out for me…

Every single time I am in a CVS near me, the self check-out malfunctions and they make an announcement about waiting for help, and the person trying to use the self check-out (which is never me, because I have learned not to use it) has to wait longer than it takes me to go through the staffed line, and gets exasperated.

I hate self check-outs.

I hate it too!

[Anonymous]

I love self-check out, as long as it is well run and limited amount allowed.

I have been behind shoppers will full grocery carts. Plus, someone that obtuse doesn't know how to use it well anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hate self check so much! Mostly because it is inevitable that the machine malfunctions and then I am left having to explain to the store clerk that I must need to attend another training or be fired because this checker job just is not working out for me…

Every single time I am in a CVS near me, the self check-out malfunctions and they make an announcement about waiting for help, and the person trying to use the self check-out (which is never me, because I have learned not to use it) has to wait longer than it takes me to go through the staffed line, and gets exasperated.

I hate self check-outs.

I hate it too!

I love self check outs, but I will say that CVS's rarely work well. So I get the hate if that's where you use them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was doing self checkout at Giant I’m Cathedral Commons and were all glitching. There were 4 people at once just “waiting for assistance”, the poor guy working there was getting a marathon in.

My local grocery store has a very sensitive bagging area or something, so any slight movement like adjusting my bag to make room for other items or opening another empty bag will give me "Unexpected item in bagging area" error. It's happening to many self checkout lanes and I see "waiting for assistance" lights blinking everywhere and so annoying.

Giant changed their self checkout setup at some point during Covid. Around the same time they started closing one of the store exits and putting that oh so welcoming anti-theft message with the CEO’s face on it near the front door. Previously none of the Giants I shopped at had the weighted scales in the bagging area and you could just scan everything in your cart with a hand scanner, pay and go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was doing self checkout at Giant I’m Cathedral Commons and were all glitching. There were 4 people at once just “waiting for assistance”, the poor guy working there was getting a marathon in.

My local grocery store has a very sensitive bagging area or something, so any slight movement like adjusting my bag to make room for other items or opening another empty bag will give me "Unexpected item in bagging area" error. It's happening to many self checkout lanes and I see "waiting for assistance" lights blinking everywhere and so annoying.

And every store I go to seems to have a different process for recognizing the bags I brought from home.

How many bags do you want? None.
Unexpected item in the bagging area. It's my reusable bag, you stupid computer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love self-check out, as long as it is well run and limited amount allowed.

I have been behind shoppers will full grocery carts. Plus, someone that obtuse doesn't know how to use it well anyway.

One Aldi I went to didn't even have a lane with a cashier open. What are people with full carts supposed to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love self-check out, as long as it is well run and limited amount allowed.

I have been behind shoppers will full grocery carts. Plus, someone that obtuse doesn't know how to use it well anyway.

One Aldi I went to didn't even have a lane with a cashier open. What are people with full carts supposed to do?

That’s how it is if I go to Target during the day during the week. No staffed checkouts at all. If you’re trying to grocery shop and you have a full cart too bad for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I love when I go to NJ and go to Shop Rite...

many many manned checkouts. It's so nice.

I don't think I've seen a self-checkout .

I like having low-skill jobs available. Please no robo arm garbage truck pick ups.

No more bags in NJ. Not just plastic, no paper bags either. it is a mess.

[Anonymous]

I love self checkout b/c i can control the bagging - separating raw meats from other items. Also, the attitude of some of the workers who just throw your stuff down. I hate it. But I do not enjoy the self-checkouts that require constant employee assistance for no reason!