When you see this, you should be thinking "look what they fucking took from us."
Once upon a time, those lanes all ran. The CEO's megayacht is the reason you have to stand in line or check out yourself.
This has been Target and Walmart for the last 30 or 40 years. They build them with 30 lanes with the idea of Xmas rush but then only have one or two lanes open no matter how many customers are waiting.
This was a problem long before self checkout or higher minimum wages or any of that.
They don't even open the other lanes for xmas rush anymore...
or check out yourself
Thanks CEO's megayacht. I'll always pick self checkout over forced human interaction.
Just in case you're wondering, they actually do man all those checkouts during superbowl weekend
My old bank branch had thirteen teller stations and two tellers since at least 2018.
This is the Target in Hixon, TN everytime i go there. I've stood in a 20 frustrated person long self-checkout line with at least a dozen regular checkouts collecting dust and not a soul with a red vest in sight. One poor lady helping 5 or so self cheout kiosks. The Starbucks at the entrance has more people behind the counter. And they still wonder why they're failing spectacularly.
Target fucking depresses the living shit out of me. The only reason I ever go is that I'm a school bus driver and for some reason half of the tips I get at Christmas and the end of the school year (why the fuck do people tip school bus drivers? I have no idea) are Target gift cards. It always has Kmart-at-the-end vibes with half-empty shelves and employees that look like they want to kill you. And I don't understand how they can maintain a grocery section at all - the selection is poor and everything costs twice as much as it does at normal grocery stores.
For some unknown reason, the stores all seem to have been inadequately constructed. The floor shakes at every multi-story Target I've ever been in.
Have you tried our self checkout. We make you work for us so we don't have to hire more employees and you pay the exact same price.
Meh, self-checkout is blessing. I don't have to stand in a irritated line of idiots, don't have to deal with overworked and really doing their best impression of not suffering clerk at the checkout and all that taking like what, three times as long as self-checkout?
Ya all really are masochists just so some tortured soul would smile at ya and pretend shit's fine.
Edit: Folks repeat some points, so I am gonna respond in edit - sorry folk ;-; - but overall I need to check my privilige. THE FUCK YOU MEAN CAMERA. THE FUCK YOU MEAN AI. I live in Europe and we got a scale, a barcode scanner and one person watching 4-8 self-checkouts. Line moves blazingly fast, you scan your shit, you maybe get bothered by machine for a sec if you have loyalty card and that's it, pack your shit, pay, and go. Oh, some shops even have barcode scanner at exit - some of these catch my barcode before I position it fully. I...feel even more sorry for you, Americans ;-;
Self checkout is a blessing when you have, like, six items in your cart. Any more than that, and it's a punishment. Have you ever tried to be fast with those torture kiosks? They've added cameras and shitty AI so that they complain if you're holding the next item in hand while putting the first item in your bag. It forces you to pick something up, scan it, put it in the bag, wait for the scale to register it, and only then pick up the next item - and heaven help you if you have a second person helping you. Having worked at grocery stores in the distant past, it's agony.
The actual checkers can scan an item with one hand while picking up the next item, passing each item to the bagger behind them in a steady stream without having to wait for anything. It's not quite an order of magnitude faster, but it's close. The only reason self-checkout is 'faster' is because one cashier can watch six kiosks at a time, and payment takes the same amount of time no matter how many items you have.
I've used self-checkouts in Canada and in The Netherlands. The ones here in Canada are just like the miserable experience you describe. Especially the weight sensor and the machine complaining. In The Netherlands I never had that issue (even with a second person helping me). I'm convinced companies have just turned the anti-theft settings up to aggravating false-positive levels over here.
Yep, that's exactly it and why no-one understands each other on these threads.
North America is three months away from Boston Dynamic Replicants gruesomly executing and dismembering single mothers in public because a little bit of flour fell out of the bag at the counter and Peter Thiel's AI decided it was Space Fentanyl.
Just go to the self checkout. It's so much easier to steal from
Honestly, stealing from the manned checkouts is easier. I just tell them "This bag is from another store" and while that's true, I bought the bag from aldi, the contents are all from here. And they don't get paid enough to even look up or deviate from their programming.
I just go to those because it's faster
How’d you get a picture of my local grocery store?
For real though, one of those cashiers would be on the self checkout helping 50 people at once and the cashier who has to actually scan stuff has 5 people in their line but all of them have enough food and goods for an army.
I always go to the cashier.
I hate self checkout.
The payment flow is always way too confusing, I hate scanning and bagging…
Please keep the cashiers.
Self checkout with app where you can put the items in your own bag or backpack as you shop, is the fucking goat
I have never tried that and I’m not sure how much I would like that
I understand. For me it also took a couple of times to get over the shoplifting feeling 😂
same. The local self checkouts are a sensory nightmare for me. There's blinking lights I can't avoid, a camera+screen I can't ignore... I just can't deal with it.
local home depot only has self checkout. I don't go there any more.
I guess I'm the opposite. The sensory nightmare for me involves having to interact with strangers, and self checkout offers the utopian promise of avoiding all that. But it fails only too often, as the slightest problem brings the clerk over. It's a bait and switch for my introverted ass.
But that's the thing, different people feel better in different methods, so why can't we keep both and let each one choose? Some would even use both methods in different moments Why does things be always forced into others because "it's the future"?
The reason to have several more checkouts is for holiday rushes. Under normal day to day operations they don't use them all.
they could use them all. but they allow self checkout to have a line. it’s ok though, the self checkout discounts usually help offset.
the self checkout discounts
Thee what now? You must live in some magical non-Capitalist hellhole if you're actually getting a discount for ringing yourself up!
theft. i’m speaking of theft.
Shit, I can't believe I whooshed that!
(To be fair, my local supermarket has scales and cameras to prevent most shenanigans... so I have to sneakily pocket small but expensive items while still walking around the store!)
Be careful with that. Some stores will let you walk out even if they notice, until they have enough evidence to nail you for more than just petty theft.
And you don't have to stop for store employees.
That's the thing - they don't have the store employees stop you once you breach the $500 threshhold. They bring in a police officer to arrest you.
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