Why do people at the bottle return act like they've never seen a aluminum can before? (midwest.social)

submitted 16 hours ago by DemBoSain@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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In Michigan, we have a 10¢ deposit on cans and bottles. They're refunded by feeding empties into a machine that counts them up. But there are never enough machines, so a line forms. And right now I'm watching 7 dopes inspect each container individually before feeding it into the machine.

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[-] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 4 points 15 hours ago

I hear you. I like the idea of higlybskilled in 'n out type customers' high speed lane. I'm in many occations that guy.

But.

I don't like thecself checkout over paid personnel at all. I have lately shifted from speedrun to more laidback and thus hsve time to wait in line for human checkout.

Now the more we refused self checkouts, the more they have to hire workers. Thecself checkouts are found only in dominant retail chains.

this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026

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