There's a new checker at Walmart

[OldJourno]

Me.
I'm keeping track and have 19 items in the cart so I can go to the express line. But it's not there.
Instead, there's a square full of self-checkout stands, about 12 of them, or I can go to the regular full service checkout lines featuring three carts per line, each cart holding a minimum of 80 items.
So I had to self-checkout.
There have been improvements. I was not accused once of stealing, nor did the machine insist on multiple occasions that a human intervene to make doubly sure I wasn't stealing. I did not bag anything inappropriately, nor was it suggested I did.
I also figured out how to ring up produce.
Plus, I used a lot less plastic. I bought a bunch of stuff that I didn't bother to bag, shit the Walmart worker would have.
I guess I'm ambivalent about the whole thing.
How about you? How would you feel about being herded into a square and doing Walmart's work for them?

 

[phrodeau]

I like going into a store and having a clerk ask me what I want, fetching it for me, ringing it up, bagging it, and offering to take it out to my car. Now that is a full service checkout.

Once you wrap your hand around a cart, you're doing Wal-mart's job for them.

 

[pollynova]

I'm a cashier.

I use the self-checkout at walmart.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I use the self-checkout at the local CVS I go to for toiletries, because I don't wanna stand in a long-ass snakey line with six pouches of butt-wipes and tube of sex lube if there's a choice and a credit card makes swipe-n-pay simple. There's always someone there watching to make sure things are kosher and helping people out.

I feel the main job of a store is to provide items for my needs and make them accessible for my purchase. The method of paying for them is a separate dealio. The self-checkout machines don't and can't help me when I ask for which aisle an item resides within and I can't find it.

I could wait for the eventual humanoids/bioroids/androids/replicants/T-1000 Terminators to do that service for me, but I might be dead by then.

 

[Libsam]

Couple weeks ago I was waiting in line at a walmart self-check line with a few items. There were 8 occupied self-checks. Just one other person waiting with me, they didn't have many items either.
A male checker asked out loud if he could help anyone because his line was empty.
Me and the other person stayed in the self-check lane.


Also, walmart pick-up is nice. I know a bunch of suburban mothers who love that shit. Order online, drive up to walmart, they put your groceries in your car.
Don't have to drag your brats around the store.
Stay on budget, no impulse buys.
Quick, fast, easy.

 

[Hypoxia]

In several Mexican cities we've inhabited, WalMart was the upscale, pricey store. Go to Chedraui or SSS for better quality and prices. Expect:

* Very wide aisles, suitable for lollygagging and gossiping.
* Very loud music, to disrupt shoppers' thought processes.
* Friendly baggers at checkout - they're unpaid, so tip them.
* Same in the parking lot - the guys there work for tips, too.

Good thing WalMart hasn't adopted the Mexican standard for unpaid staff. Wally's customers in USA don't look like big tipsters.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Self-checkout. Everywhere. The lines always move faster.

 

[BB4evah]

I use self check out all the time and despite what you all write about me here

I CHECK OUT GREAT!

Last time I even got a sticker!

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So THERE!https://janeaustenrunsmylife.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/so-there.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I agree with the colonel.


I always choose the self checkout option where it is available.

 

[BB4evah]

^^^^Hogan Butt Boi

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Self-checkout at teh Wally's


My grocery store choice is based on complexity of order. I only slef-check the no-brainers.


I only use it at the big box stores for small orders. The bigger ones get a human.


I always go to the line with the most attractive woman cashier. Always. And I always assume that it'll become the slowest line on the planet when I set foot in it, so I never get pissed.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

At the big box hardware store, the girl who oversees the self checkout lines sounds just like the girl on The Big Bang Theory...

Bernadette

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I do use plenty of Wally-bags, too.


Cat litter.


Need I say more???


http://68.media.tumblr.com/6eafcf4ff7e813cddf303ffd37e2688b/tumblr_nhap3cnl2V1r9x3w6o1_1280.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You should fill them and then take and add them to the recycle bin...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I love Subway sammich stores.


The cheap fuckers don't put the napkins where the customers can get to them and waste them.


And they dole them out like they're made of rare earths or something.


I have deduced that the bottom line is in napkins . . . .


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[oggbashan]

I don't use self-checkers. They are an excuse for the store to reduce staff by making the customers do the work. Even if they lose items through theft at the self checkers, the losses are cheaper than paying a human.

Locally, unless low-skilled people, or people who have to work around school children, become supermarket checkers the only alternative work is to be care assistants in old people's homes. The care assistants' pay is lower than at checkouts, the work is literally shitty, and the work conditions are poor.

The competition for local supermarket jobs is fierce because of the flexible working patterns.

 

[FL30]

I've been using self-checkout for at least 10 years now. When I go shopping I never buy more than a few items at a time so it is always quicker and easier than waiting in line for a regular cashier.

The lines move quicker because most people in line are only buying a few items, as well.

Walmart, Kroger, Home Depot, Lowe's and several other stores have had self checkout for years. (10+ years or more)

I love how quick it is to actually get in, buy my stuff and then get out as quickly as I can.

Can't believe it's taken you this long to actually try the self-checkout line.

 

[islandman]

How would you feel about being herded into a square and doing Walmart's work for them?

If you like Walmart's low, low prices, this is what you have to do to get them.

 

[Libsam]

I don't use self-checkers. They are an excuse for the store to reduce staff by making the customers do the work. Even if they lose items through theft at the self checkers, the losses are cheaper than paying a human.

Locally, unless low-skilled people, or people who have to work around school children, become supermarket checkers the only alternative work is to be care assistants in old people's homes. The care assistants' pay is lower than at checkouts, the work is literally shitty, and the work conditions are poor.

The competition for local supermarket jobs is fierce because of the flexible working patterns.

Wait a second, UK nurse assistants don't have to get an education and get some kind of certification to work in the healthcare industry? Nurse assistants in the USA have to enroll in classes, pass, and get certified, and they get paid more than minimum wage.

 

[Bray123]

In the UK Tescos also have the self-scan thing.

You scan the goods yourself as you go around with your own scanner, putting the things directly into your own bags (on a cart if you wish). Then you just fire the thing at a cash-point code and flash your credit card. A few seconds later you're walking out of the store.

Every few visits you're randomly selected for a security check and a worker checks about 10 items in your bag to see if they've been scanned correctly.

Eventually there will be no-one working on the cash-points but there are few windmill repairers and wheel-wrights left either.

 

[butters]

i'll only use a self-checkout rarely, like if i have less than 5 items and all the tills have huge queues. it's an excuse by the companies to hire fewer people.

 

[jaF0]

I absolutely will NOT use a self-checkout, no matter what. Our Home Depot has one in the center section of the store, next to the Service Desk where you'd expect a real checkout. They have a real checkout in the Garden Center and one near the Pro Desk and lumber at the other end of the store. I always walk past the self-checkout to one end of the store or the other.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

^^^^Hogan Butt Boi

^^^^door greeter at Goodwill store.

 

[jaF0]

And I absolutely will NOT set foot in a WallyWorld. Any WallyWorld. Any where.

 

[Rightguide]

I always use the self-checkout at Home Depot or anywhere else it's convenient to do so.