Self checkout

[DDZ]

Stores pay someone to watch self checkout aisles, and pay people to watch monitors. Why not just pay someone to open another checkout line, if theft is so high?  I very rarely use a self checkout. Only a few times if I have just a couple items. I see at stores like Lowes. You are forced to use a self checkout, because they don't have anyone running a checkout.

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[JeffG]

It's a response to the situation of not being able to get people to come to work. I gather from checkout clerks that checking out is exhausting, and not anyone's favorite job. I don't mind moving over to self checkout rather than standing behind Tilly Glutz, and a cart full of groceries,  if I want to get on my way.

[ironglowz]

  We have some stores that have that feature available. For the nearest super market (about 12 miles), it is not a matter of opening new lines..

   They had 5-6 normal open checkouts in line, but they have deserted them but one noirmal checkout, which is only open now and then.

  So, I no longer shop there .  I shop at a nearby market that has only normal checkout, having no use for the video game players !

  ..Same goes for those convenience stores/ gas stations that also sell food.  Some are now set up to force one to play a video game to order a burger and fries !

  They can go pound salt, so far as I am concerned..

[gypsyman]

 Very seldom use the self check out, maybe if I only have 1 or 2 items. And 99% of the time, pay cash, hate to use a card. One time sticks out thou, few years back. Only a couple check outs were open,Kroger store, but didn't look to busy. Got in line, but went slow. When the person in front of me got close, and I started to unload, seen the clerk had a phone up to his ear, and talking. When I heard him talking, and it had nothing to do with the a price check or business related, really pi**ed me off, and in a rather loud voice said, REALLY, which got the attention of everybody within 20 or so feet. The clerk looked at me, and I politely said, ''Are you getting paid to talk or work''. Almost immediately, must have been his boss stepped in, apologized, and took over checking everyone out. One person behind me said thank you. All I did was give the new check out person a disgusting look. Should have been doing his job and kept the kid off the phone while working.

[Bob Riebe]

     All self-checkouts in Minn. used to take cash or card, Now, some times, they only take cards.
I am not sure if the auto checkouts took the small silver dollars but they did not take Fifty Cent pieces or 2 dollar bills in most cases.

     At one of the local Walfarts, there are two checkout areas: one mainly for groceries and one down in the hardware store area.
     People will be lined  up at the grocery store auto and normal checkouts, so I walk down to the other one and just walk up to a manned register or auto checkout with no wait, nine times out of eleven.

     People are to fat or lazy to walk an extra 100 feet.

[ironglowz]

  I rarely use a card for anything, my statement often comes back at the end of the month, with zero balance.  I use cash because I think it's better and to help keep us from going cashless.

  The government already knows too much of our business.

[moamonkey]

I use self checkout at my local Lowe’s and Home Depot because usually that’s all they have. You really need to watch their prices though, especially it seems at Lowe’s. Several times the computer has listed a higher price than what’s posted on their shelves.

[Drilling Man]

  I've NEVER used a self-checkout and I NEVER will!

  I'll drop everything on the floor where I'm standing and walk out before I use one!

  DM

[Mule 11]

  I've NEVER used a self-checkout and I NEVER will!

  I'll drop everything on the floor where I'm standing and walk out before I use one!

  DM

I’m exactly opposite of that, yesterday I put my stuff on a flat surface and walked out Again because of two packed checkout lanes and 6 self checkouts that were ALL card only…

[gypsyman]

  Most of my grocery shopping is done at an Aldi store. Not sure if their all like this, self check out is card only, but always have a clerk ready at the one that takes cash, which is the one I use. I can tell when their short staffed, been a few times a person is stocking a shelf, and then has to run up, punch in on the cash register and start scanning. I always tell them, don't rush on my part, but usually another costumer gets in line. And then will say, let me know when your district manager is here, I'll tell him, you need a raise. That gets a smile out of them!!

[Mule 11]

  Most of my grocery shopping is done at an Aldi store. Not sure if their all like this, self check out is card only, but always have a clerk ready at the one that takes cash, which is the one I use. I can tell when their short staffed, been a few times a person is stocking a shelf, and then has to run up, punch in on the cash register and start scanning. I always tell them, don't rush on my part, but usually another costumer gets in line. And then will say, let me know when your district manager is here, I'll tell him, you need a raise. That gets a smile out of them!!

Also do a large portion of my shopping at Aldi’s. Prices are good in line with quality and the girls that work there do everything except lump the trucks… They are timed on their checkout which is usually fast even if they have a long line

[Bob Riebe]

I use self checkout at my local Lowe’s and Home Depot because usually that’s all they have. You really need to watch their prices though, especially it seems at Lowe’s. Several times the computer has listed a higher price than what’s posted on their shelves.

     AH, Home Depot, used to be the best lhardware type store in town, USED to be.
Now it is more like the way Menards used to be, which was not good.

     There self-checkout is at the FAR end of the store and it makes more sense to go 4 feet farther and use the industrial check out that Usually has a person.
     The return area IS handy to access but there you will be standing in-line while there are two other store workeers fiddling around. 
Occasionally a upper level person, usually a dude , will  come and open another retrun spot.

      Now Gopher, the local thrift-hardware store, as soon as there are three people in line, they will call for another checker and IF the line are still long , the will open up a make-shift checkout line to aleave the problem.

[Shaky Jake]

Our local grocery store has NO self checkout lines. Yesterday, with a few events going on, is the first time I have ever seen all five check out lines open and there was a line at every one!
I will use a self checkout if the line is shorter. Costco is one where it is occasionally faster to use self checkout.

[Bob Riebe]

Our local grocery store has NO self checkout lines. Yesterday, with a few events going on, is the first time I have ever seen all five check out lines open and there was a line at every one!
I will use a self checkout if the line is shorter. Costco is one where it is occasionally faster to use self checkout.

       Sam's Cub used to have a lot of cashier check-outs and a few self-checkouts.
NOW, it is just the opposite and I loathe it.
  They have no more than 4 cashier spots and they are usually only one or two open.
People are lined up at the self check-out.-out just like the cashier ones.
     
       I MUCH prefer to use a cashier at Sam's, line or no line as there self do ones have no place to set you groceries or any thing else so you are picking through your cart an the check-out and often the machine , or operator, makes an error so some one has to fix it, while people in line are waiting.
 Often waiting for some one to show up.

[Ranger99]

. . . I can tell when their short staffed, been a few times a person is stocking a shelf, and then has to run up, punch in on the cash register and start scanning. . . .

If you didn't already know,  "short staffing " is the
Aldi's business model.
All of their stores have a maximum of 4 employees
on duty,  ( 3 is the regular number) including the
manager or manager on duty.

Everybody-does-everything-
all-the-time is thing invented
by the new breed of business
management degree/ accounting
types. When I first entered the full
workforce, the top tier employees
of any business were specialists.
Today, the old adage " JACK OF
ALL TRADES,  MASTER OF NONE "
is the rule of thumb.
It is applicable in every industry.

Just me-  I'll go through whatever line
will get me out of the door the fastest.
I quit trying to fight the self-check
self service gasoline etc. years ago.

It's here to stay forever as long as we
have the freedom to go shop on our
own, that is until we get to where we
have to stand in line to receive our
gubmint rations.

Semi related-  years ago I was told by
2 different wallyworld employees I knew
that eventually most all retail stores
( starting with grocery stores) would
be a closed building,  and you'd have
to order online and drive through your
line at the store to pick up your pre
picked order.
Nothing has been done about the
hoodrats shoplifting, and now most
things are being locked away and you
have to push the button and call an
employee to unlock and hand you
your can of deodorant or shaving
cream, and at some stores they
walk you to the register to pay for
whatever RIGHT NOW. 
Maybe not before I die,  but most
retail business will eventually be
closed to customers, and you'll
be allowed to pick up whatever
you've ordered and paid for online
and sent on your way.

Another example of enabling and
making excuses getting the law
abiding honest taxpaying citizens
a swift boot to the nutz