Then offer a discount for self checkout.

I used to love using the self-checkout. But then it became a trend among the corporate overlords here to get all paranoid about people stealing food, so now they have the weight system calibrated too strict. Now if you breath on the items in the bag it locks you out and someone has to come unlock the system to continue scanning. So it's not really worth the hassle, and seems kinda pointless since an employee has to unlock the system after every few items.

Real US/Europe split here

No cashier packs your bag for you in Europe. Sometimes it's a fun game trying to be faster packing than them scanning.

I hate self checkout. I work all day to then check out my shit and bag my own groceries? And pay 2x for the same food and less service than 5 years ago?

1. I don't work here. Stop trying to get me to do the job for free, either pay a cashier to check me out or fuck off.
2. There's an epidemic of these machines not working and then the shopper getting charged with shoplifting over it, Wal-Mart is the worst at doing this.

I actually prefer self checkout. Idk. I get it though.

Management can fuck right the hell off. Self checkout is taking jobs away from people and getting us to work for free.

The Boomers are right sometimes, like about keeping email.

I'd rather "work" than wait behind people with 100+ items. I can be out the door in 2 minutes.

I mean, both are right. Clients shouldn't have to do the cashier job.

But clients should stop going there to send a message instead of harassing the minimum salary employee.

Not wanting to do free work for a company (they don't even give you a discount if you use self-service) is being a boomer?

That's the first time I've seen the word "boomer" on the opposite side of the word "sucker".

Never understood that argument. I want to be in and out as quickly as possible. Self checkout makes that happen.

I've never understood the people who seem to not get that some people actually don't mind scanning their stuff and putting it in bags, and insist that that's the line between what the customer does and the employee. They also used to carry your groceries to the car for you, and you can also get them to pick everything up, bag it and bring it to your car or house. It's not like the checkout process is the special part that can't change.

Yeah, they want to save money by having fewer people get more customers checked out faster. I don't really care since the part I like, getting finished at the store, happens faster.

My parents refused to use the self-checkout because “They take people’s jobs.”

They were hardcore republicans perfectly happy to make sure those jobs got paid shit.

I mean, walmart could easily fix that by having fucking cashiers.

At the walmart I go to they put in like 60 self checkouts and have, maybe, one cashier running at a time.

I don't mind self checkout as a concept. Its fine if you are just buying a couple things, or something you might be personally embarassing for you.. but they are not a replacement for cashiers.

Cashiers and belts are needed to handle bigger purchases like monthly groceries and shit.

Unless you are gonna take 25% off my bill for labor savings, I am not going to take my monthly shopping through a self checkout. I had to once when I had no choice, and I'll never do it again.

I refuse to use them as a union worker, when I'm told to use the self checkout as I'm in line for the only cashier I just refuse. I'm doing it for you kids

I was once mistaken for an employee somewhere and my sleep deprivated response was to say "I am wearing pants so clearly I dont work here." I have no fucken clue what that means but I think it was a threat.

I live here in Toronto.

When I go to a store, I pay with cash.

I pay with Canadian money, because I'm a Canadian who buys from stores in Canada.

That was easy to do in Ontario Wal-Mart stores.

But then they put up self-check-outs that only accepted credit and debit cards—maybe because they're in cahoots with the banks and the NSA/wp:CSEC.

Then I had to use a cashier.

So I went to Wal-Mart fewer times as I didn't like to wait (as well as the increased prices during and after Covid-19).

Now they have a person at the self-checkout who will scan my stuff and accept my cash.

It seems that Wal-Mart adapted—somewhat—to people like me: people who pay with cash.

Still, I do more purchases at Food Basics and Dollarama because their self-check-outs accept cash, including pockets full of loose change that I purposely carry when I go there.