That's the primary bane of curbside pickup.
The morons they hire to pick and bag have no common sense.
"Ok... Three cans of baked beans? Let's drop them in the bag with the tomatoes and eggs."
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That's the primary bane of curbside pickup.
The morons they hire to pick and bag have no common sense.
"Ok... Three cans of baked beans? Let's drop them in the bag with the tomatoes and eggs."
I have never used that. I like to look at the meats and produce I buy before I buy it.
Major Charles Emerson Winchester III for the win!
Maybe or maybe more like Frank Burns.
SamSpade
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I find that only true if I am buying just a few items. With a full cart, the checker is always faster.
SamSpade
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Most of the time - because I suppose WHEN I shop - there's a line for the self-checkout. Target is the worst - their self checkout typically goes all the way down past all the registers. I think Giant closes all of its regular registers after a certain hour.
MY self-checkout often goes - scan items one at a time, machine tells me to put it in the bag - at least once, the machine tells me it's not in the bag when it clearly is - so it stops until I either take it back out or put it back in - it argues with me because I didn't put the giant paper towel or toilet paper in a BAG (because it won't fit). When I have filled all three bags and put them back in the cart, it argues with me and signals an employee and stops the checkout process -
Most of this is because - to make lots of self-checkout stations, they minimized the checkout area - they assume people are just buying a few things.
BECAUSE this happens - stores like Giant and Walmart now have signs that self-checkout is only for those with X amount of items. I think I may see that at Harris Teeter also.
It's like when you have to call customer support for something, and you have to sift through all the menus - and NONE of them address your issue - so you HAVE to press "0" because you'll never get to where you need help. Or those diagnostic screens on Windows that ask you stupid questions and at the end, it gives up and asks if it was helpful, when a human being could have fixed it in a few seconds.
NorthBeachPerso
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Some of those self-checkout item limits, at least at Giant, are an anti-theft program. They've also made some doors Emergency Exits only. Safe way in Dunkirk has only one entrance so it has an employee hanging out there as does Giant now.
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I have never run into anything like that out here. Large stuff stays in the cart and I use the handheld scanner.
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And for larger, bulkier items, there is usually (not always) a screen button for "do not bag", so you can either scan it in the cart or just drop it in the cart without the scanner prompts to bag it. It also pops up for soft items like bread that you may not want to bag with other items.
Giant doesn't have those. Last week I had to pick up a large cake that took up the whole bottom of the cart. When I asked the lady where the handheld scanner was, she said they didn't have those, only the check-out clerks did. I asked her how I was supposed to scan this huge cake. She
and then had to take the cake out to scan the label and put it back. Efficiency folks.
I only grocery shop at L-town locations of Food Lion and Shoppers and only use self checkout unless the registers adjacent to the self checkout are open and there is a line for self service. Bagging is the major reason, but sometimes it just doesn't matter. Life is too short to worry about the little inconveniences.
I actually expect this to show on the Lowe's computers as our base system is copyright 1996. It was written for Digital Research DOS, but now runs in a DOS emulator on Ubuntu Linux.
1stGenSMIB
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I have a friend that shops the Lusby Giant and she loves that process. I hate a bunch of dumb apps on my phone, and Giant is expensive, so I only buy a few things there when on sale, or I am desperate coming out of Mike Hart's liquor store and need a few things with less stops.
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Clem72
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I know for a fact a certain national grocery chain still uses POS software I helped write for the AS400 in 1991. I get e-mails once or twice a year asking about the code (which to be fair was not documented, at all).
NorthBeachPerso
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Giant is 20% higher than what store? The three majors here that I go to in Dunkirk are Giant, Safeway and Harris Teeter. Of the three Safeway is the one that is 20% than the other two, which are comparable.
That's because those three are about the ones who charge the most, Shoppers, Food Lion and Weis not to mention Aldis are about 20 % less on most items. However since you are located in Dunkirk yes you are F**ked!