Why does everyone who runs a store or shop write like this? Are they marking off their loose paper and sharpie budget as a business expense?

Lol, awesome.

Where's my discount for doing your labor?

As much as I dislike online shopping (because it puts too much control into an even smaller group), this crap is driving me to it.

Robot tills unironically good. We need people renovating houses and providing healthcare not making the same small talk day in day out.

Love to wait in a line a dozen people deep because the parasite class is too cheap to hire more than one checker

Man, am I part of a minority that vastly prefers self checkout? I just scan my shit, pay, and leave while everyone else is waiting in line for a person. No awkward small talk, no one in front of me holding up the line with a mountain of coupons or anything, just efficiency. They're honestly not hard to use. Barcode go beep. Carrots under C. Stuff goes in bag.

I've had some finicky ones, but the only reason I would ever choose a person instead is if I have alcohol, and that's not really by choice. Most times, I finish shopping and walk out the door within 2 minutes. I've waited in line for like 15 before. I don't see why it's more popular other than the desire to "be serviced."

I wonder if self-serve gas went through this, too.

Wait till they find out that it's the staff stealing all the shit and not the customers. Then wait until they find out that all the staff that are ripping the place off are all in management.

Ok I guess I can go back to stealing the old fashioned way. I almost got caught more often at the self checkout anyway

free candy machine broke

As always, the problem isn't inherently with technology, but with its usage by capitalism. We could implement this to free workers for other more necessary jobs, or to reduce the working hours. Instead it just creates extra profit for the capitalist and more unemployment.

Self-checkout is one thing I proudly say the baby boomers were right about.

Hope this energy stays with all other AI bullshit. Look, porky wants to disguise us working for him as a service he’s providing us and charge us for it. Porky is lazy, not us.

The Dishonesty of inflating grocery prices until people felt the need to steal them, absolutely. Your apology should be much longer, perhaps its own separate sign.

The same way Aikido is, in theory, the most effective martial art, but the human body isn't capable of harnessing it to its full potential so it ends up laughably bad, this middle manager's methods actually make for a mindblowing business model, but their customers' morals fail them so the store ends up unable to use technology.

uNeXpEcTeD iTeM iN bAgGiNg ArEa

:bender-rodriguez: "I don't like it, but I can respect it."

remember everybody, if aggressively confronted by self checkout person:

"train me as a cashier or gtfo i have no idea what im doing with this machine"

I prefer using the self checkout, I don't consider it work, because I also consider it work to mentally deal with meaningless small talk, and to deal with waiting in line for ten minutes when I'm buying just a few items.

You might feel like it's work for you, and that's fine. You can then use the staffed checkout lanes, which are explicitly there for anyone who dislikes doing self checkout.

The problem isn't doing "work" by using self checkouts, the problem is capitalist cost-cutting, which would be done with or without self checkout machines.