Self Checkout.........

Have you ever stood in front of the self checkout station in the market and screamed "THERE IS NO UNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGAGE AREA!!!"

I seriously feel like this happens to me far more often than it should.

 

I avoid the self checkout lanes like they are machines trying to steal my money.
My only problem besides having to use them because I have 1 item and the express checkout lane has 8 people in line is buying beer and the dude has to come over to your "register" anyway.

 

Won't use them... Fuck that!

 

I've used them but they are more trouble than they are worth, especially if you've got fruits or vegetables and have to find the correct items on the screen.

 

This is great! Parts from this bit play in my mind like half the time I use self checkouts.


http://youtu.be/FxINJzqzn4w

 

I use the self checkouts often, and I scream at them often as well.

Then I get a kick out of wondering what other people are thinking as they take note of me screaming at a robot.....

 

ive never used them

i go to the lane full of single guys (8 items or less)

 

8 items? Damn. At my local market, the express lane has a 15 item limit!

Sometimes I like to be a troublemaker and sneak in an extra item or two.....

 

yes..at my favourite store

#1 express is 8 or less...

#2 express is up to 16 items

 

Oh I'm a crafty imp at a self serve. I'll put almost every vegetable down as green beans, I'll hit the "using own bag" button whenever I have something heavy I won't scan. I take labels off meat and swap them for cheaper labels. Yeah I'm crafty. I have zero guilt too, like, I'm sticking it to the man! Ya know? I only do this at big chain stores though, I'll help out the independent shops all the time, but not the chain stores. No way.

 

i only use the self checkout, unless i'm buying shit for work, since i don't know how to do a tax exempt at the self checkout. i can do my own checkout in half the time any of the paid cashiers can do it, and the lines are usually shorter.

i was in your position just today though. i just had to buy one bag of ice, and every lane had a bunch of people in it except for the self checkout, which just had one person. so it seemed like a no brainer. but the person in front of me clearly had no idea what she was doing; she had to call over the self check monitor for at least half her items because she couldn't figure out how a scanner worked. every other lane got through two or three people while this one idiot stood there staring at her 10 items all day. my ice was half melted by the time i got to scan it. i half expected the water to drip all over the machine and short it out by the time i finally got to run it over the scanner.

 

Whenever I see a self checkout I get weirdly excited like a little kid. There is normally never a line for self checkout either!

 

Were you buying ice for a party?

 

My local grocery store doesn't have them. But it does have only one express lane (15 items or less) and they never enforce it at all. They still allow slow moving handicapped people with 75 or more items to use it constantly. To top it all off, they insist on paying with a check and write painfully slow. So irritating when you're in a hurry

 

i find them extremely annoying because you virtually have to use their plastic bags.

there's no way to convince them the tear weight of your canvas bags are what it is.

and i'm sorry, as long as in have to use the bus or walk any distance, there's no way i'm not going to bring them.
mostly anymore, the stores i go to, don't have that crap.

but when i was living in a shared household a couple of years ago, the nearest big store that was in walking distance was converting to them.
it called itself save mart, i guess it still does.

odd thing is, i get more as well as better groceries, at trader joes of all places, yah that yuppy gormet place, for less money, then what it cost me to shop there at so calles 'save' mart. for real.

the only think i can't get at tj's is my large container of powdered chocklet. for that and the lowest price on 2% milk, i go to smart and final.
food source is good, its one of those bag it yourself but with a live clerk scanning your items.

what i can get at dolar tree or 99 cent i do. but dollar tree doesn't have my milk. 99 cent has a good price on it though.
my frozen stuff i get about half at s and f, and half at tj's.
baked goods at s and f, half and half with food source.
(ghod only knows who owns food source, i HOPE it isn't wally world).

caned stuff i pretty much don't get at all. too much crap in canned stuff plus the useless extra weight to have to carry.

meat pretty much food source, though i do get some at tj's.
feeesh, i like frozen tilapia, at dollar tree or 99 cents.
noodles i use, oh bloody hell i ramble don't i, well i use saladets in everything.
veggies, yah, s and f or food source.

anyway, none of these places i shop now have those damd scan it yourself checkouts.
i LIKE doing things myself, but dam, they're just a way for stores to screw someone out of a job,
without passing any of what they save by not hiring, on the customer.
besides being a major p.i.t.a. in the process.

 

I always use the self-checkout to avoid the usual repartee with the cashier and bagger.
The baggers at Shaws and Stop And Shop are all mentally challenged so invariably stack the food items in the wrong order
i.e. place the canned goods on top and the bread on the bottom


Hotwater

 

yes that self check out can be very challenging

my question is will this be a blond joke or a green joke?

 

In my part of the world and the human cashiers seem to be nepali, pakistani or indian, most probably supporting grandma back home. So I avoid the robots to support them

If all the employees were instead snotty college kids, I'd be like screw you, and use the robots (besides shit coffee, the other reason I never go to Starbucks)

Doing my part for world peace

 

Consider it a blondie-green joke. I'm letting the green wash out so I can go platinum. I really was considering sporting brunette hair for fall/winter, but with long brown hair, you see it EVERYWHERE around the house (I remember this from the last time I had brunette hair) and I for that reason I'll be going platinum instead.

I'm excited to rock red lip with my platinum hair, Gwen Stafani style.......

 

I normally shop for groceries around 6 am. and the self checkout is the only register open. They usually have a clerk there to help or sometimes give change. I do not scream at the machines but I do talk to them.

In our store if you are using your own bags it will ask you. "Are you using your own bags?" I usually get my bags into place before pushing the "yes" button. Then the machine will tell me to remove the last thing I put in the bagging area. I generally tell it that it is a stupid machine.