Then offer a discount for self checkout.
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In some places, they are making you subscribe to Walmart+ to use self checkout. Like, it wasn't just annoying enough, now if you don't have their subscription service, you have to stand in the extra long non-self checkout line. Can they make us hate it any more?
I used to love using the self-checkout. But then it became a trend among the corporate overlords here to get all paranoid about people stealing food, so now they have the weight system calibrated too strict. Now if you breath on the items in the bag it locks you out and someone has to come unlock the system to continue scanning. So it's not really worth the hassle, and seems kinda pointless since an employee has to unlock the system after every few items.
- I don't work here. Stop trying to get me to do the job for free, either pay a cashier to check me out or fuck off.
- There's an epidemic of these machines not working and then the shopper getting charged with shoplifting over it, Wal-Mart is the worst at doing this.
Yeah. Give a cashier a wage, or give me a staff discount.
I'd rather "work" than wait behind people with 100+ items. I can be out the door in 2 minutes.
even faster if u skip some items from being scanned
Based
Why bother going through the checkout at all, the fastest way out is straight through the door. Unrelated, the weather is changing so I'm thinking of buying a really big coat, and I'll want pockets for my keys and other essentials.
Management can fuck right the hell off. Self checkout is taking jobs away from people and getting us to work for free.
I once asked a cashier in Germany if she thought self-checkouts would take away her job. She said she liked them because there's enough to do anyway and they take away the boring task of cashier-ing.
I refuse to use them as a union worker, when I'm told to use the self checkout as I'm in line for the only cashier I just refuse. I'm doing it for you kids
I actually prefer self checkout. Idk. I get it though.
I was once mistaken for an employee somewhere and my sleep deprivated response was to say "I am wearing pants so clearly I dont work here." I have no fucken clue what that means but I think it was a threat.
Never understood that argument. I want to be in and out as quickly as possible. Self checkout makes that happen.
I'll be honest, going with the people that get paid to do it is way faster for bigger buys
Some people are too entitled and think everyone else exists to serve and fawn over them
I mean, both are right. Clients shouldn't have to do the cashier job.
But clients should stop going there to send a message instead of harassing the minimum salary employee.
How is saying I" don't work here" in response to the employee approaching them to direct them to the self-checkout - how is that harassing them?
I hate self checkout. I work all day to then check out my shit and bag my own groceries? And pay 2x for the same food and less service than 5 years ago?
I like to have both. Self check out if I only have <10 items. But if I have a full cart I'd like to go to a cashier who has the scanning down to a T. I think this the best of both worlds.
I love it. Less social interaction after a long day of work, I can keep my headphones on. It's a bliss for me.
Real US/Europe split here
No cashier packs your bag for you in Europe. Sometimes it's a fun game trying to be faster packing than them scanning.
I live here in Toronto.
When I go to a store, I pay with cash.
I pay with Canadian money, because I'm a Canadian who buys from stores in Canada.
That was easy to do in Ontario Wal-Mart stores.
But then they put up self-check-outs that only accepted credit and debit cards—maybe because they're in cahoots with the banks and the NSA/wp:CSEC.
Then I had to use a cashier.
So I went to Wal-Mart fewer times as I didn't like to wait (as well as the increased prices during and after Covid-19).
Now they have a person at the self-checkout who will scan my stuff and accept my cash.
It seems that Wal-Mart adapted—somewhat—to people like me: people who pay with cash.
Still, I do more purchases at Food Basics and Dollarama because their self-check-outs accept cash, including pockets full of loose change that I purposely carry when I go there.
This says much about respect and social competence in this society when the first instinct is to mock and abuse someone with different priorities than yours.
The self checkout is a perfectly viable option, so long as Walmart can find the strength inside themselves to open 3-6 manned tills on a Sunday for folks with large carts or children. Nothing is more demoralizing than getting up to the checkouts after a huge shop and finding there isn't a single till open whatsoever. Throw in a four-year-old who wants to help scan every item and you're ready to burn the store down by the time you leave.
I like hanging out in parking lots at Walmarts and to scam boomers coming back with a load of groceries