Self Checkout

[armalitesheepdog]

I love the system Meijer has. For grocery shopping or any shopping. You put a app on your phone. (I know I know) Then you scan and bag your groceries as you shop. Then when you are done you go to the you scan register scan a bar code and it downloads all the items in your cart.swipe your card and go. No unloading cart and bagging.
Everything is already based by you.

 

[johntheplinker]

Haven't used a cashier line in over a year unless there was no choice. I can get done faster, don't have to listen to spiel for credit cards or additional warranty or loyalty programs, and nobody for The Boss to distract.
Also I have to wonder why Home Despot even bothers calling them self checkouts, seems every time I go in there the overseer or what ever they call the person working the self checks jumps in and does it all anyway.

 

[Sylvain]

Well, you can flirt with them, but they don't listen. Pretty much the same as the human cashiers. But at least they won't call a manager over to report "sexual harassment"!

If they consider it "sexual harassment" you're doing it wrong.

Also sometimes the flirting is mutual and non-creepy.

 

[91FXRS]

Nope wont use them, drives the wife nuts. I tell her the same thing every time, until they give me a discount for putting someone out of work ill wait in line.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Nope wont use them, drives the wife nuts. I tell her the same thing every time, until they give me a discount for putting someone out of work ill wait in line.

Well, they didn't necessarily put anyone out of work, but they sure as heck made the cashier monitoring the self serve lanes work their butts off. Pretty sure they'd rather just worry about one lane too.

 

[Angrysauce]

I'm saving 25% by only scanning half my **** at checkout

 

[Sylvain]

I'm saving 25% by only scanning half my **** at checkout

Wouldn't that be 50%?

 

[Angrysauce]

Wouldn't that be 50%?

No you gotta pay for the expensive stuff or they'll notice.
Free TV gets alot of attention, a few free steaks fly under the radar.

 

[Sylvain]

No you gotta pay for the expensive stuff or they'll notice.
Free TV gets alot of attention, a few free steaks fly under the radar.

I see.

 

[Brandon]

love them. back when you couldn't find lysol/hand sanitizer/other panic items and they had a one can limit, self checkout lane and as many as you wanted. i am also quicker than the average cashier and my time is worth something. the option is there to do it myself, i will do it.

 

[Hkindiana]

The problem with self check out at Sam’s is that you cannot pay with cash, only credit or debit cards.

 

[wcd]

I love the system Meijer has. For grocery shopping or any shopping. You put a app on your phone. (I know I know) Then you scan and bag your groceries as you shop. Then when you are done you go to the you scan register scan a bar code and it downloads all the items in your cart.swipe your card and go. No unloading cart and bagging.
Everything is already based by you.

I miss Meijer

 

[Route 45]

I won't use them. I have walked out and left a full cart if they have 1 cashier open and all the self checkout are open. I will not work for free. Give me an employee discount i'll consider it.

You sure showed those minimum wage grocery clerks, didn't ya?

 

[pute62]

I'm not only a cashier, I'm a cart wrangler. Moving right up the corporate ladder

 

[patience0830]

The problem with self check out at Sam’s is that you cannot pay with cash, only credit or debit cards.

I use the scan and go app at Sam's. Scan stuff as it goes in the cart.. Pay with my Sam's Mastercard saved to the app. SAVES ME 5%! Show my phone to the asset protection employee at the door. And I'm outta there. No fuss, no muss.

 

[jbombelli]

I use the self checkout because I got sick of bags ripping open due to being overstuffed by the clerks.

 

[Hkindiana]

I use the scan and go app at Sam's. Scan stuff as it goes in the cart.. Pay with my Sam's Mastercard saved to the app. SAVES ME 5%! Show my phone to the asset protection employee at the door. And I'm outta there. No fuss, no muss.

What does that have to do with not being able to pay with cash?

 

[Angrysauce]

What does that have to do with not being able to pay with cash?

I haven't carried cash for about a decade. Cash, flip phones, and print publications died in '07, let them go.

 

[churchmouse]

You sure showed those minimum wage grocery clerks, didn't ya?

I would like to do this but like you said....

I am at the point in my life I realize I will have no influence on what is coming next. I can not slow/stop/change anything any more. It is useless to waste the energy's I could be using elsewhere.

 

[Chewie]

If you're using the self checkout you're working for the store for free.
So I rather use the line with a human cashier who gets to be paid to scan my items.

Also you can't flirt with the self-checkout machine.

Yes you can but it always ignores you. Just ask me, i talk to them all the time but they don't say much!
Get lots of funny looks from the rest of the shopping world as well. Well worth the effort just to see the responses!