The Wall Street Journal reported on the rise of digital, self-checkout kiosks and how customers have responded to tip prompts. Many customers who were asked to tip workers with whom they had no interaction were frustrated with these prompts, per the Journal.
Fr, I stopped clicking "yes" on the charity prompts when I realized the stores were just claiming self-checkout donations as their own. Like, damn Kroger, you can afford Albertsons but you want me to handle your charity? I'll just give that money to the people who beg in and around Kroger, because there are many
also their charities are just staffed by failsons and all the money gets paid into their 200k salaries rather than going to anyone. and they get tax right-offs. 'awareness' charities deserve hell imo
landlords have started asking for tips now this is out of hand
It kind of is, especially in my state with no tipped wage.
"So the workers do all the work and the customers pay them directly. What is it you would say you do here?"
:porky-happy: "We vacuum up all the profits! I mean, they gotta go somewhere..."
If you're tipping a bag carrier that's fine. Like when they take the groceries to your car
If the grocery store self check out minders agree with me, let's just dump the middle man. Don't search me when I shoplift and I'll give you, like, a bunch of groceries I didnt scan or, like, a PS5 that I scanned as bananans.
how many people have to tip grocery workers before the store owners can start paying the tipped minimum wage?
the countdown to when i'm going to kill one of these machines has advanced several ticks
Don’t tip and don’t donate. But it’s not emotional blackmail to have that in the screen. It’s not pressuring you to give money. You just press no and move on. No one cares when you press no. They aren’t pressuring you to tip.
Social obligations affect the average person so much that it literally is psychological pressure.
It causes them stress to click no.
The social obligation arises from tipping, which is a social obligation people are raised with in the US. The human brain is funny and transfers this obligation to any time they are asked to tip.
Let us do Luddite praxis until retail workers get a livable wage
When I was a kid a friend's dad took us to a grocery store that had a gumball machine. We begged for a quarter and the machine ate it with no gumball, so the dad put another in, got the gum, chewed it up and immediately shoved it into the coin slot. This, but for self check out machines
