I can scan and bag faster than the checker can and I don't grocery shop at peak times. But if I don't get my BOGO you better believe I'm calling the babysitter over - at Publix if the BOGO doesn't ring up you get both of them for free.
She got sick and tired of self-checkout, so she did something about it
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I can scan and bag faster than the checker can and I don't grocery shop at peak times. But if I don't get my BOGO you better believe I'm calling the babysitter over - at Publix if the BOGO doesn't ring up you get both of them for free.
Anyway, this Cotter person is the most Democrat Democrat ever. SHE doesn't like to use self-checkout, so instead of simply using the human checker she wants to make it harder for EVERYONE to use self-checkout. If she doesn't like it, nobody can have it.
SO Democrat.
That's what I think when I see people griping about self-checkout - don't use the ****ing thing. It's literally that simple. Use the regular checker. I have never in my life seen a store that didn't have a regular checkout along with their self-checkout, so I fail to see why this is even an issue except that people like to bitch.
I think it just pisses them off that people like me are whipping through no problem while they're standing in a line waiting for Grannie to write a check for her 18 cans of cat food that she has expired coupons for. They want no lines, but they also don't want to go through the exhausting arduous task of *gasp* scanning their own groceries. They want the store all to themselves with no pesky other people.
Tell me that's not true because I can't think of any other reason why anyone would care that self-checkout exists.
SO Democrat.
That's what I think when I see people griping about self-checkout - don't use the ****ing thing. It's literally that simple. Use the regular checker. I have never in my life seen a store that didn't have a regular checkout along with their self-checkout, so I fail to see why this is even an issue except that people like to bitch.
I think it just pisses them off that people like me are whipping through no problem while they're standing in a line waiting for Grannie to write a check for her 18 cans of cat food that she has expired coupons for. They want no lines, but they also don't want to go through the exhausting arduous task of *gasp* scanning their own groceries. They want the store all to themselves with no pesky other people.
Tell me that's not true because I can't think of any other reason why anyone would care that self-checkout exists.
glhs837
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Yep, about the only time I don't use self checkout is when I've got a lot of produce, that stuff just ends up being endless pain.
I can look up and weigh produce faster than the checker, too. Plus I know what everything in my basket is and don't have to have a conversation about what a rutabaga is and what I'm going to do with it.
See? There ya go. Don't like it, don't use it, be glad those people who are using it aren't in line in front of you.
ArkRescue
Adopt me please !
It's not worth MY TIME for a lousy few dollars for sure, let alone hold up a line for that.
ArkRescue
Adopt me please !
and what do you do with them? 
jrt_ms1995
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Orange vegetable bad!
PeoplesElbow
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I want self checkouts that aren't always broken, like the ones at Walmart. Best self checkout I ever used was at super fresh over 20 years ago, non since have ever equaled those ones.
WingsOfGold
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I can barely use my cell, have no idea about apps unless news and weather icons. Does that mean I couldn't shop there? Have no desire to be proficient on it.
Two stores within 30 minutes of me, Food Lion and Food City. Lion has no self check out, the other does. I think I could easily forget the 50lbs of dog chow under my cart but that's beneath me to steal. I DO bug the shiit out of the overseer for weighted items and reduced stuff. It would be easier for them to check me out because I am deliberately a pita.
I know that's hard to believe of me but it's true.
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SamSpade
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Lots of them will. I know a few well enough that they will OPEN a new one for me. Most of the older staff are great. And once when they were “out” of water bottles, one of the younger managers (who I think was a checker once) went to the back and pulled up a whole cart of the 5 gallon bottles.
I love these guys.
SamSpade
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I wish there was more room to bag, and more patient machines. If I’m buying 10 items, then I’m using a little cart and it’s not cumbersome.
If I have a full cart, that little self checkout is nigh unto useless. There’s no room.
SamSpade
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You must not shop at ALDI. I’ve had several times where I simply could not load the groceries fast enough.I can scan and bag faster than the checker can and I don't grocery shop at peak times. But if I don't get my BOGO you better believe I'm calling the babysitter over - at Publix if the BOGO doesn't ring up you get both of them for free.
Admittedly they have an advantage. They’re not bagging anything and nothing has weird ass mark down labels that won’t read. And they’re sitting. Even their Facebook page posters concede - they’re fast.
You're supposed to bag, and when the bag gets full you can transfer it back to your cart and start filling another bag. All the platform wants to do is weigh the item to make sure it's what was scanned. So like a 12-pk of soda or a big thing of laundry detergent - scan it, set it on the platform for a couple seconds, then put it back in your cart.
I'm so organized it's like a sickness. Self-checkout was made for people like me.
SamSpade
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Kind of get that. I don't bring refillable bags, so I'm left with the flimsy plastic bags that often require plastic surgery to separate - not nearly as bad as the ones on the roller in the produce section, which also require a mathematician and a priest. And I do typically use the small cart, not because I buy only a few groceries but because I need it to navigate through the zombified customers, mindlessly meandering the aisles.
It would be a LITTLE easier if they had a staging area to place groceries BEFORE you scanned or weighed them, because otherwise, you're playing musical chairs putting them back in the cart. Even at Harris Teeter, where the checkers DO that - load it back as they check them - they have loading counter(s) to maniplulate them.
Closest thing to that is the other self-checkouts in Walmart - a few of them DO have belts to load things on.
There's the fact that I hate to do produce lookup or figure out how to get the damned thing to scan a worn label.
There's also the fact that I do like to talk to some of the cashiers, at least the friendly ones who know me. A couple I've grown to know and like very well, and they like to ask questions about my kids and family.
And I do think they should offer some kind of discount for self-checking. Maybe 3%? Something. We're saving THEM money.
I've seen a cart staged for loading ... then you leave yours when finished
You're not really, though. Don't you remember before self-checkout when there would be two registers open and a mile long line for each of them? And everyone would gripe that they should have more checkers, but they never did that?
You're not saving them money because they weren't going to hire more checkers in the first place. Self-checkout is in addition to the checkers, not instead of them.