I find cashier lines to be too slow because of the socialization so I always go to the self checkouts.
A lot of old ladies will go to cashiers and have ridiculous questions and requests and you're standing there with your 3 items dying inside.
Do I get a discount for checking myself out? Unless it's 1-2 items and the normal line is full - it is cashier every time for me.
Same. I will go to the cashier even when it's somewhat inconvenient to me just because I despise the idea that the grocery store is making me be the cashier for free.
They’re a skilled worker that has memorized the codes for the different types of potatoes, a skill I am unlikely to learn.
I guess it depends on the machine, but I don't have to memorize codes. You can search for the item by name when it's time to weigh it.
I don’t like self checkouts.
I don’t like fiddling with the thing, I don’t like how they lay the interface out (it’s designed to not be efficient, and there’s always so many clicks to pay), I don’t like entering vegetable UPC codes, I don’t like touching the screen 100 other people touched without it being cleaned, and I don’t like feeling like I’m being watched, and I don’t like context switching between scanning, choosing, and bagging.
I just want to load my items onto a belt, the cashier scans them and enters codes, then I bag them. I’ll simply say no to donating and tap my card and leave. Simple.
This commercial was made at least 17 years ago. This is what we need. We have the technology. We just need the price to come down.
I don't mind there being a self-checkout, but for the love of everything good in this world, these companies need to stop asking 21 questions when you use one! "Do you want to apply to a credit card?", "Do you want to donate?", "Did you want a receipt emailed?", "Did you want to fill out a survey?", "How many bags did you use?", etc.
And if it's a self-checkout at Walmart, expect to have 10 available, but only 2 working and three staff overlooking them...
Ironically, the local Walmart has been closing them all later in the day so that people must use cashier's, presumably due to increased theft etc
At the self-checkout at the Walmart near me a little man would go around asking if we want to save on groceries by signing up for their credit card.
The fourth or fifth trip there that he did this I had to get a bit ruder until he finally grabbed the self-checkout and clicked the credit card opt-in and I had to tell him to fuck off. He acted shocked but dude I go to self-checkout to avoid human interaction, not be sold a bullshit credit card only a teenager would fall for.
Most self-checkouts range from mildly annoying to downright unusable. Except Home Depot. Home Depot self checkouts are wonderful.
Walmart ones here generally work ok, the worst seem to be Dollarama which bitch at you about everything. Like this piece of tissue I bought didn't weight properly so now I have to wait for an employee every other item.
If self check is too hard to use, just take the items for free
I got into a situation where a cashier came to debug an issue and she wasn't able to.
It just ended up with her letting me go with the item for free because ''she isn't paid enough to fix this shit''
If I have just a handful of items it's convenient. But one in 20 times I seem to find a way to screw it up - like trying to scan the loyalty card as an item...
Any more than 8 items I'd rather just use a cashier to scan the items for me. But places (like shoppers) don't make it easy at all.
