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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loathe self checkout and think it puts people out of work. But Giant is getting stolen blind to the point where it is permanently closing half of the store entrances and putting armed guards at the remaining ones. The changes to the self checkout are aimed at minimizing the inevitable loss via limiting order size, and at catching people with the weight detector. I think other retailers are experiencing the same thing. There are people wheeling entire carts out without paying, and the present environment is so violent and so pro criminal that the stores don’t dare try to arrest them.

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Sigh. It doesn’t “put people out of work.” This is the excuse people tell themselves, that they’re Heroes Saving Jobs and not just what they actually are — lazy.

NOBODY wants those cashier jobs. They are the worst jobs in the store by far. Stand in one place for 6-8+ hours a day, which is much more uncomfortable on the back and knees than a shift moving around. Can’t go to the bathroom without a supervisor who may or may not come or send someone to cover. Can’t have even water in a closed bottle near the register at almost all chains (and even in the rare instances you can, see also bathroom limitations). Deal with a revolving door of jerk entitled customers with no way to get away.

Now that there’s so much competition in hiring for low level, low paid jobs, people who before could only get a grocery store cashier job are taking other better options. Most applicants say “any job but cashier.” The store needs employees, so it hires them anyway into other roles. Most of the poor, pitiful cashiers you all pretend to care about when you really just don’t like being inconvenienced are now filling the ever-expanding need for pickers and order fillers for drive-up, which has exploded in use since 2020.

And for the tiny number of people who can’t are disabled or elderly and can’t do that, the service desk still exists and desk jobs have been created for coordinating pickups and, in some cases, the store-specific deliveries.

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