Some stores are doing away with self checkouts

[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.

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.

Right? Especially after I've been instructed "Please place your bags in the bagging area"

I like self-checkout just fine. I hate stores that set it up poorly (hey, Costco, I can load my entire cart so the bar code are facing up -- let's get scanning)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gosh I hope so! Besides never getting a 1099 for working for a store, I started using staffed checkout lanes more and more.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/business/self-checkout-stores-shopping/index.html

Good
If I'm doing the work then I should get 25% off my groceries.

[Anonymous]

Ok, but where are these checkout workers going to come from?

The Target in my area has been closing the doors and self-checkouts on one side of the store because they don't have enough staff to man that side. The line for the other bank of 9 self checkouts will be super long and the ONE manned checkout lane will be super long as well.

My Giant put a 20 item or less limit. So dumb. I ignore it all the time. Why? Because they only have 1 manned checkout open and it always has a huge line. The self-checkout monitor over the weekend told me "ma'am, you have 25 items" and I pretended I was deaf. I was in and out before 2 people moved through the manned checkout.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Costco misses you. Not!

Uh, OK?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would just like to have the option. I like self checkout for if I only have a bag or two worth of items. I wouldn’t mind using the regular checkout but they have to be adequately staffed and that seems to be a problem for the stores. Looking at you, Target.

Yes. When it was first introduced it was as you describe and I liked that. Then the stores went overboard. I'll wait in line now just to avoid the self-checkout.

[Anonymous]

How much does one tip the cashier?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gosh I hope so! Besides never getting a 1099 for working for a store, I started using staffed checkout lanes more and more.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/business/self-checkout-stores-shopping/index.html

Good
If I'm doing the work then I should get 25% off my groceries.

2 minutes at $15/hr is 50 cents. After taxes, maybe 30 cents.

[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.

I didn’t mind doing self checkout until Giant went to this god awful system, it now I just use the staffed lanes. I mean the people actually stealing items aren’t moseying on up to the self checkouts and pretending to scan their items, they are just stuffing stuff in their bags or just rolling their carts right out the door.

The entire exercise reminds me of post 9/11 when buildings started hiring guards and making people scan in before entering a building, all performative and meant to deter but in actuality it won’t deter a real criminal. So everyone is else just gets inconvenienced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, but where are these checkout workers going to come from?

The Target in my area has been closing the doors and self-checkouts on one side of the store because they don't have enough staff to man that side. The line for the other bank of 9 self checkouts will be super long and the ONE manned checkout lane will be super long as well.

My Giant put a 20 item or less limit. So dumb. I ignore it all the time. Why? Because they only have 1 manned checkout open and it always has a huge line. The self-checkout monitor over the weekend told me "ma'am, you have 25 items" and I pretended I was deaf. I was in and out before 2 people moved through the manned checkout.

Some days to avoid the long-cashier-will-throw-your-food-lines at Giant I go through once, buy canned goods, put in my car, then go back in and buy produce and milk. It is a ridiculous game.

[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

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

Who is supposed to mask?

You apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, but where are these checkout workers going to come from?

The Target in my area has been closing the doors and self-checkouts on one side of the store because they don't have enough staff to man that side. The line for the other bank of 9 self checkouts will be super long and the ONE manned checkout lane will be super long as well.

My Giant put a 20 item or less limit. So dumb. I ignore it all the time. Why? Because they only have 1 manned checkout open and it always has a huge line. The self-checkout monitor over the weekend told me "ma'am, you have 25 items" and I pretended I was deaf. I was in and out before 2 people moved through the manned checkout.

Because the rules don’t apply to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Self checkout is the best. Fast and efficient. Only boomers hate self check out.

Millennial here, I hate it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gosh I hope so! Besides never getting a 1099 for working for a store, I started using staffed checkout lanes more and more.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/business/self-checkout-stores-shopping/index.html

Good
If I'm doing the work then I should get 25% off my groceries.

2 minutes at $15/hr is 50 cents. After taxes, maybe 30 cents.

It takes me much longer than two minutes.

[Anonymous]

My local Walmart Neighborhood market, a few years ago, went to 'all' self checkout...like, all the checkouts were arranged in sort of a pen where a monitor would let you in to go scan your stuff. It was so annoying and crowded in there. Not to mention, impossible for some people with mobility disabilities to use, and for some elderly people too.

About a year later, they removed the whole setup, put back in 3 regular cashier lanes, and some lines of self checkouts (not in a pen). It's much better! I can put a large order on the belt and have it bagged, and I can go quickly through self check if it's a few items.

[Anonymous]

I don’t mind doing it at Target or Giant if I only have a few things. It should always be a choice though imo. If I go to Target right after school drop off there is never a cashier working. If the store is open a cashier should be too.