Some stores are doing away with self checkouts

[Anonymous]

I prefer self checkouts at convenient stores when I buy tampons. Nobody needs to see me buying tampons. And I'm an introvert and I don't feel like dealing with pleasantries, being asked to sign up for rewards cards, being asked if I want a bag or want my receipt, I just want to get out of there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Stupid pointless rules? No they don’t.

[Anonymous]

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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.

That’s a you problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This! I did not mind using it for just a couple of items. But now I don’t have the option, because many stores might have one or two cashiers and funnel everybody to self checkouts. I have to wait a long time to do the self check out anyway and I have a cart full of stuff and not enough room for my bags. Then, something doesn’t ring up or I have an issue. It’s absurd.

[Anonymous]

I detest self check out but use it if I have 4 or fewer items and checker lines are too long.

What I find interesting is the employees who either hover over you while you're checking out, or assist you during the check out process so end up doing pretty much the same amount of work as the checkers are doing.

I say get rid of self check out, give those jobs to the humans that need them!

[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.

I was going to say… without self checkout, the target checkout line would be the store length long. And sometimes it is anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Not that rule, no. I'm not standing in a line that's 9 people deep, most with packed shopping carts because I have 22 items. GTFO.

Rules are not laws. Rules are guidelines.

[Anonymous]

The Walmart self checkouts are the worst. They are so sensitive and set for those who use turtle speed, apparently.

I sat my reusable bag down and scanned one of my 4 items. It threw an error. The monitor came over and asked if I placed something in the bag I didn't scan. Nope, I scanned my box of tampons, see the screen, ma'am. She reviewed the camera footage at the register and it was because the sensor caught the motion of me placing my bag down and thought it was an item. Fun. She cleared that error and I scanned the next item and placed it in the bag and scanned item #3 and it threw an error again. The lady came back and said I was too fast. I needed to scan, place the item in the bag, pause, scan, etc.

Like does this lady have to come and clear every error when someone places their bag in the checkout area? Because I live where we have to use our own bags or pay .05 per bag and I'm not doing that nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

In that PP’s defense, if the grocery store is going to enforce an item limit, then they need to have more than one manned cashier line open. That’s on the business and not customer.

[Anonymous]

What's the point of self-checkout when the shelves are empty anyway?

[Anonymous]

I love self check out. What I REALLY want is for Wegmans to bring that their Wegmans Scan ap. I could have everything bagged and ready to go by the time I got to self check out for payment.

[Anonymous]

I can understand why some people like self checkout when the cashiers are so slow. But if you have ever been to an Asian grocer, there is no way you would prefer self checkout. Those cashiers are lightening speed. I always wonder why other stores cannot replicate this.

[Anonymous]

Unless there is a bagger I prefer to move things sling & bag myself

[Anonymous]

I love self checkout for small trips.

For large shopping trips- like a big haul from the supermarket- UGH. Yesterday, our supermarket only had one actual cashier working (and like 10 self checkout stations running) but I had a fairly large amount of groceries. This either forces me to wait in a long line for the actual cashier, or go to the self checkout and try to pile all of my groceries in a too small space.

[Anonymous]

Walmart today only had self check out and all but the one at ended up with had a scanner table that was so filthy it looked like it had taken part as a p0rn film location!

Back in the last century when I was a cashier, I always started my shift by cleaning the damn glass. I would also doing throughout my shift!