Self checkouts at grocery stores

[Leslie22]

Seriously, people over the age of 50 should not be allowed to use these things. Good job holding up the line because you have no clue how to operate one.

 

[thør]

Don't be a whiner.

 

[richard_daily]

I never got through those things. They take jobs away from people, and I'm not paying money to do my own bagging...

 

[pete]

Seriously, people over the age of 50 should not be allowed to use these things. Good job holding up the line because you have no clue how to operate one.

i hear you, it's damn frustrating sometimes

#firstworldproblems

 

[phrodeau]

Seriously, people over the age of 50 should not be allowed to use these things. Good job holding up the line because you have no clue how to operate one.

I imagine the off-duty cashiers waiting to use the self-checkout would say the same thing about you.

 

[Leslie22]

I imagine the off-duty cashiers waiting to use the self-checkout would say the same thing about you.

Nah I'm lightning fast through those things.

 

[ElaniBeGood]

Keeps the 20 somethings employed

 

[MNGuy]

Seriously, people over the age of 50 should not be allowed to use these things. Good job holding up the line because you have no clue how to operate one.

I am over 50, and know how to use the self checkout better than most. I used to work retail, and had to troubleshoot those fucking things.

Don't lump all of us in this category.

You're just being ageist.

 

[warrior queen]

Some supermarkets are removing them here.
Seems theft rates have gone way up since self-check was introduced.
Cherries at $20/kg being put thro as onions at 88c/kg, that sort of thing.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Seriously, people over the age of 50 should not be allowed to use these things. Good job holding up the line because you have no clue how to operate one.

I am intimately familiar with how to use many different kinds of machines and computers. But then again, my generation was raised around these things, while senior citizens were not.

But if all grocery store checkout lines became automated, the super-cute girl "Iona" at my local grocer would be out of a job, and I would be disappointed.

 

[girlsmiley]

Seriously, people over the age of 50 should not be allowed to use these things. Good job holding up the line because you have no clue how to operate one.

Hey, shouldn't there be someone there to help if they don't know how?

And what does 50+ have to do with anything?

A little patience goes a long way.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Seriously, people over the age of 50 should not be allowed to use these things. Good job holding up the line because you have no clue how to operate one.

Good idea.

What I like about crotch rockets is the fact its always kids who kill themselves crashing them into Mercurys and Crown Vics.

 

[oggbashan]

Seriously, people over the age of 50 should not be allowed to use these things. Good job holding up the line because you have no clue how to operate one.

I'm well over 50 and I won't use them. I have stopped using one DIY store because they often have nothing but self checkouts.

I can operate the self-checkouts. In one of our local supermarkets one in five customers has a problem with them, and it isn't the customer, it's the equipment and bar-coding that is at fault.

They are just a device to cut costs and employ less staff. I prefer to deal with a person who has the knowledge and experience to deal with faulty bar codes, can accept my discount vouchers, sell me savings stamps - and talk about their family.

I can't go around any of our local supermarkets without being stopped by one of the staff for a chat. That is an advantage (or disadvantage) of living in a small town where almost everyone knows each other.

I can't talk to a self-checkout and often can't hear what it is saying to me because all the other self-checkouts are talking at once - and the customers are swearing at them.

 

[girlsmiley]

I'm well over 50 and I won't use them. I have stopped using one DIY store because they often have nothing but self checkouts.

I can operate the self-checkouts. In one of our local supermarkets one in five customers has a problem with them, and it isn't the customer, it's the equipment and bar-coding that is at fault.

They are just a device to cut costs and employ less staff. I prefer to deal with a person who has the knowledge and experience to deal with faulty bar codes, can accept my discount vouchers, sell me savings stamps - and talk about their family.

I can't go around any of our local supermarkets without being stopped by one of the staff for a chat. That is an advantage (or disadvantage) of living in a small town where almost everyone knows each other.

I can't talk to a self-checkout and often can't hear what it is saying to me because all the other self-checkouts are talking at once - and the customers are swearing at them.

You're not scanning fast enough.

Off to the retirement village.

Not to worry, mate. Dolf will be there to look after you. I'm sure she can get you all the good meds.

Good luck, big fella.

 

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[Dazzle1]

I'm well over 50 and I won't use them. I have stopped using one DIY store because they often have nothing but self checkouts.

I can operate the self-checkouts. In one of our local supermarkets one in five customers has a problem with them, and it isn't the customer, it's the equipment and bar-coding that is at fault.

They are just a device to cut costs and employ less staff. I prefer to deal with a person who has the knowledge and experience to deal with faulty bar codes, can accept my discount vouchers, sell me savings stamps - and talk about their family.

I can't go around any of our local supermarkets without being stopped by one of the staff for a chat. That is an advantage (or disadvantage) of living in a small town where almost everyone knows each other.

I can't talk to a self-checkout and often can't hear what it is saying to me because all the other self-checkouts are talking at once - and the customers are swearing at them.

I use self check out for a simple reason. I do it faster than the employee.

My time is valuble

 

[BotanyBoy]

I use self check out for a simple reason. I do it faster than the employee.

My time is valuble

Same here, unless I'm buying certain things like paint, WD40, can air for computer cleaning etc. all that 18+ shit, faster to let an employee do them shits.

 

[oggbashan]

I use self check out for a simple reason. I do it faster than the employee.

My time is valuable

You might, with a few items. But in our local stores, if you have more than 20 items you are going to have a problem before the end. Either the technology or the programming is defective.

The cashiers can go much faster than I can bag, but in deference to my age, they don't. Or they bag it for me.

Although I'm retired my time is also valuable. I prefer not to waste it cursing faulty technology - except Windows, email, telephone trees, spam...

 

[Wings]

I go either way.


Mostly I get annoyed at "chicks" who post on here pretending to be a female while itching their testicles.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Wings]

Do you know why women check and sometimes put on lipstick at a traffic light or stop sign?

Oh God. No, why?

 

[Adre]

I go either way.


Mostly I get annoyed at "chicks" who post on here pretending to be a female while itching their testicles.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Wings]

Because silly, they don't have any balls to scratch.

A genuine snort out loud moment.

 

[CaptainKirk]

I never got through those things. They take jobs away from people, and I'm not paying money to do my own bagging...

This. I refuse to use them.

I do use the cool blue fabric bags my store offers instead of using plastic bags. You can fit more stuff in them and the handles are stronger.