Sam's Club does it kind of. You scan things as you shop with the app on your I-phone, pay with your card and out the door you go.
She got sick and tired of self-checkout, so she did something about it
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LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
Food for thought.
Well ....... Businesses are granted the privilege to operate in Maryland, or another State, upon registration of a business. With that, comes with the understanding of being regulated by the State. And when employees are replaced with robots or self-checkout lanes, the number of income taxpayers, and other contributory taxes/fees, are reduced. Which does not benefit the State. Now tally the total of employees lost due to "new technologies", and the State begins to take notice. And on a national level, the numbers swell greatly.
The reduction in employees by corporations is about nothing but greed, and to keep shareholders happy.
Food for thought.
Well ....... Businesses are granted the privilege to operate in Maryland, or another State, upon registration of a business. With that, comes with the understanding of being regulated by the State. And when employees are replaced with robots or self-checkout lanes, the number of income taxpayers, and other contributory taxes/fees, are reduced. Which does not benefit the State. Now tally the total of employees lost due to "new technologies", and the State begins to take notice. And on a national level, the numbers swell greatly.
The reduction in employees by corporations is about nothing but greed, and to keep shareholders happy.
... And they people will start getting W-2s in the mail for that 10%.
SamSpade
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About every other visit to DOLLAR GENERAL I’ll see someone with two carts.
You know, even on my biggest trips, still using the little cart. I can’t imagine what it’s like to constantly FILL a big one.
About ALDI and extra lanes - what they’ve done to me and my wife is, you’re waiting in line a good ten minutes and they decide to open up. They ask people IN BACK OF YOU to go to the new registers, in utter violation of logic and fairness.
SamSpade
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That’s almost certainly been the cause of their demise. That, plus store staff who refuse to say, sorry that’s way more than ten items.
ArkRescue
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Let me tell you how intelligent some of these people are NOT and dealing with a machine can be better. I went to the Walmart in Clinton after I moved into my former home. I had a cart FULL of things I needed to cover windows and other home stuff. I wrote a check for the purchase from my NFCU account (this was 2002, yeah a long time ago) and the cashier asked for my military ID. I said I'm not in the military, here is my Driver's License. She said this is a military bank check so you need to have a military ID. I asked for the supervisor and she also agreed with the cashier. I tried to educate them that you don't have to be in the military to have an account with NFCU! They disagreed and I walked out and left my cart there. How stupid are people?
I've had people behind me try this crap at Food Lion. The cashier specifically says, "I'll help the next person in line". Someone who just walked up to the back of the line started to make a move and I simply stepped between them and the newly open register until the actual next person in line could make a move, and then those between that person and me. I'm only 5'11" on a good day, but I can scowl ugly enough to make some people pause and consider my ability to ruin their day.
CPUSA
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OSHA...Affirmative Action...Minimum Hiring age...
CPUSA
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I'm sure there are youtube videos of this taking place in Urban Wal Marts...
With the expected results...as well as INTENDED consequences of store staff refusing to say, "Git yo ass in the regular line!!"
SamSpade
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Yeah that’s probably me doing that.I've had people behind me try this crap at Food Lion. The cashier specifically says, "I'll help the next person in line". Someone who just walked up to the back of the line started to make a move and I simply stepped between them and the newly open register until the actual next person in line could make a move, and then those between that person and me. I'm only 5'11" on a good day, but I can scowl ugly enough to make some people pause and consider my ability to ruin their day.
To be fair, sometimes the people who SHOULD take advantage just sit there. So I don’t always wait.
I'm with you on that. If they are queued up and comfy, then the next person can jump. If the LAST person in line has 3 items, they would get a pass. This was just in reference to one occurrence.
ArkRescue
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ONLY because that was the Walmart I passed from the house I sold in Temple Hills to the one I bought in Brandywine. I have only ever been back to that Walmart 2 times. Once was to catch a rooster running loose in the parking lot and another because it was convenient. Otherwise in the past 20+ years I have avoided it.
My wife drives to the SuperCenter down Rt 1 in Hybla Valley ... Much better clientele aka mostly Hispanic
I did a little shopping at Giant on 3 Notch this afternoon.
A cashier who had turned off her light and was going on break waved me down and checked me out.
Kudos to Vanessa.
A cashier who had turned off her light and was going on break waved me down and checked me out.
Kudos to Vanessa.
PeoplesElbow
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Tucson Walmart self-checkout shoppers cited and sent to court for mistakes
Multiple Tucson shoppers who miss-scanned items like cheese, kitty litter and bleach face citations for petty theft, court appearances.
Cashiers have made mistakes, customers obviously can too, shouldn't get a criminal charge for it.
PeoplesElbow
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Youre not one of those people that holds up a line of 20 people the day before thanksgiving over $0.10 on a can of peas are you?
If these people succeed in eliminating self-checkout I'm going to be seriously pissed. How many times have you gotten home to check your register tape and find that you didn't get a sale price or BOGO you should have? That doesn't happen with self-checkout because you're in control and can see it on the screen before it whizzes by.
This just seems like a silly thing to spend time on when there are so many more important issues.
I offered a guy $1 one day if he would just drop it and accept the price, had been waiting in line for 20 minutes already.
I didn't know HemiHugger shopped at Walmart.