Who Is Inexperienced With Self-Checkouts at the Grocery?

[TN_Vixen]

I remember the first time I used these things, I was completely totally ignorant and felt like a drooling idiot over the fact that the damn machine kept asking me questions (in a LOUD computer voice) to "DO" things... i.e. scan, punch this button, weigh the produce, etc.

Then, I got used to it and now I feel so superior to all those people who pass the "self-check-outs" with a fearful expression. I'm smug and obnoxious. So, I should feel bad about that, right?

 

[Saint Peter]

At least your bread is not smashed when you get home.

 

[Matthew D]

Very true Saint Pete.. and also the chips are crushed!!

 

[Anais Dahl]

I helped make the software for it and I cannot even use it. I always feel like an idiot.

Don't feel bad.

 

[Raina]

I hate those things. I always end up setting my keys or my wallet on the scale thingy, or I get something that won't scan, or it won't take my bills. I don't think I've ever used it and not had to have the cashier come over and help anyway.

And I used to be a checker. I'm so incompetent!

 

[Ice Cold]

The only thing frustrating is when you know how to do it quick, and the morons in front of you don't know what the hell they are doing and try to feed it everyloose bit of change they can scrounge up... I hate those dumb bastards!!!

 

[Matthew D]

I helped make the software for it and I cannot even use it. I always feel like an idiot.

Don't feel bad.

Very cool that you help make the software for it..

 

[Raina]

The only thing frustrating is when you know how to do it quick, and the morons in front of you don't know what the hell they are doing and try to feed it everyloose bit of change they can scrounge up... I hate those dumb bastards!!!

Heh.

I would be one of those dumb bastards.

 

[TN_Vixen]

I helped make the software for it and I cannot even use it. I always feel like an idiot.

Don't feel bad.

you really helped make that software? That's incredibly cool!

 

[Private Vasquez]

I wanna know how it knows that I put stuff in the bag. What if I didn't want a bag?

 

[Matthew D]

hummm, maybe it reads minds..

 

[hogjack]

Very inconsistent performance...

...from these machines. They'll get bettter-and-better but right now the interface is not smooth.


I don't do too much self-checkout at the grocery store or other retail establishments. I do a lot of self-checking out, of course.

 

[#1tankcomander]

I don't know if I'd use it.
I get pissed at the guy who uses a credit card to purchase a pack of gum and then wants cash back!

Use a fucking ATM then buy the gum!

 

[KillerMuffin]

I hate the damned things unless there's no line at 'em. They take longer than a line staffed with people who know what they're doing. Customers always bitch about the slow lines at the grocery store and never realize it's their own damned fault the lines are slow.

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

We Don't Have Any Yet!

~Stomps Foot~

I Wanna Play Check Out Girl Too!!!

 

[cymbidia]

We don't have any (that i know about) in my area at grocery stores but the local K-Mart has some of them, as i discovered quite by mistake.

Yes, i was indeed a bumbling idiot. I felt stupid. I was slow.

However, since my local K-Mart seems to hire only those people who cannot pass a, hmmm, 4th grade equivalency test, i was finished with my checkout a damn sight faster then those who were patiently waiting in line to have the official cash register person do it.

 

[Anais Dahl]

Yeah, I put my time into software for PetCo and FAO Schwartz too, and everytime I go in there and their register won't work, I lean over and fix it and they are fucking stunned.

It is a nice little trick.

 

[Sandia]

That pic in your AV is cool RNAB.

 

[Sillyman]

Isn't it wonderful to watch technology slowly phase out jobs? I can hardly wait until they become a fixture at Wal-Mart.

 

[InnocentAngel81]

lol i tricked devilboy in to using it so i can learn by whatchin him, yum mint oreos, next time i'll do it.

 

[ExLimey]

I've seen one when I was in Detroit. They have yet to make it up here. I can honestly say I will not use one. Part of what makes grocery shopping bareable is being able to flirt with the college girls who 'man' the checkouts. Why would I want to give that up?

Now if they could invent a machine to get rid of the blue-hairs who move too slow in the aisles and then always stop right next to the only other person in the aisle so you can't get around them. That would be progress!

 

[Mike Hammer]

I was waiting in line at the grocery, read all the magazine covers, wondering if I needed batteries or nail clippers, breath mints etc.... Then without thinking I started compairing all the candy bars. The two old bitches behind me got their panties in wad over it and the manager asked me to leave. It'll be the last time I do the self checkout thing. Now at least I know my cock is about the same size as the king size Snickers.

 

[lisalove]

I have never even heard of these enslaving techno devices. Good gawd, they bloody well better be lowering the prices on the products to compensate for this.

I have mini panic attacks at the self-serve gas station, I'm not even going to attempt this nonsense.

Haha. I picture you rolling your eyes at the idiotic customers, and muttering 'jesus' under your breath as you push them aside and say, "fine, I'll do it for you".

 

[redrider4u]

self checkouts....

are fine....just make sure if you are in a hurry you only buy items witha UPC barcode. Looking up fruits, or finding the right size salad to enter takes time.

What I despise is some individual (female?) who has to write a damn check for $1.62, then does not have a check card.....

 

[DevilBoy79]

lol i tricked devilboy in to using it so i can learn by whatchin him, yum mint oreos, next time i'll do it.

yea u brat!