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Me, waiting for age verification because I scanned a 0,0 alcohol free beer
In my experience those don't trigger the age verification.
Depends a lot on the country and sometimes even between the store chains within the country. At my local store you can't buy anything age limited at the self check-outs, they start flashing and beeping and you gotta get your stuff and walk to the closest real check-out. And alcohol free drinks, like beers wines ciders whatever, are treated the same as the original versions, limited to 18. Heck, even candy pipes (tobacco pipe shaped liquorice candy, quite delish!) is age limited as it kinda-looks like a pipe and you know, think-of-the-children.
one of my favorite "welcome to ____" experiences was when i moved to Utah. I went to the local grocer and bought some San Pellegrino. the cashier carded me. now i've worked retail, so [most likely] this was her first day (the POS tells you when to check someone's ID) or [i've learned not to overestimate Utahns, so also most likely] she somehow had no understanding of what i was buying. i somwhat bemusedly told her i'd show my ID to her manager. when the manager came over, i pointed to the bottles and told him the cashier wanted to see my ID.
i may have memory problems from time to time, but the look on the cashier's face when her manager told her I was buying water will remain with me til the day i die.
i was forced to wait (under pain of "loss of customer trust rating") for ten minutes because they wanted to inspect and approve my purchase of a can of redbull because there was no one available with all staff busy.
that amount of time, had i been clocked in at my job, would have entitled me to a quantity of pay greater than the price of the drink.
Also me while I wait for them to confirm my id
If I accidentally put something in the bag before it scans, it catches it immediately, but if it double scans the barcode, it can't tell it overcharged and the employee has to cancel it 🤔
Funny enough at Aldi's if I scan the same two items fast enough it won't scan the second item probably for this purpose.
I've been in a Dollar General store before, that had 4 self checkouts, that were all out of order.
There were 2 human run registers, but no humans to even be found.
I hollered across the store "DOES ANYONE EVEN WORK IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER?!"
Almost needless to say, an employee came to the register, but in hindsight, I probably should have just said fuckit and walked out with the merchandise.
Complaining about the service at the Dollar General 🧐🤵♂️🍸
I should have just started working there myself. Like fuck, what they gonna do, fire me?
Patience of a god for not doing that
I've gotten pretty friendly with the woman who manages to self checkout area.
It's when they start scanning coupons that you don't know about that they have the hots for you. Fifty cents off toothpaste? 😳🥵
I guess we're not that friendly.
🥵
Its either that, or she's trying to tell you something else...
“If you want to run to aisle 5 real quick, I’ve got some secret coupons for deodorant too. Don’t run too fast now, wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself.”
I've never had a problem with the scanners, I use them every week.
Then, just a few days, ago...
I got something I don't usually, it was supposed to be $24, but it rang up as $48. I was on the wrong hook, as it turned out. Anyway, I didn't want it for $48, so the lady had to help me. She happened to be standing about five feet from me when it happened, and she saw it happen before I asked her. She was taking care of it on her little device.
Thing is, when I noticed it scanned incorrectly, I accidentally put the coffee I was holding in my other hand in the bag without scanning it and without thinking.
So, as soon as she canceled the sale for the thing, another error pops up, which flustered me again, and I kid you not, I did the same damn thing, I put ANOTHER item in the bag without scanning it and without thinking about it or noticing. Like the fucking idiot I am. While I was apologizing for the first unscanned item ANOTHER error appeared.
She was very kind, dealing with the village idiot.
LPT never pick up anything except the single thing you're scanning.
So many times I've had to wait on the cashier to clear me, because I was holding a second item in my off hand, and it thought I was pulling a fast one
Yeah the trick is to put your reusable bags in the trolley, with a second reusable bag inside them. Put your groceries in the inner bag, and the items you're going to steal in the outer bag between the layers of bag as you shop.
Then when you get to the self checkout, you unload the inner bags onto the checkout, scan as normal, move your trolley to the other side with all the unscanned items hidden between bag layers, pay, load the inner bags with the paid groceries. They'll never even see the stuff between bags after you've unloaded for scanning, and if they look into the bags it still looks empty.
... Or so I've been told
😂 I appreciate the wisdom
I'm supposed to, what? Drop my balls!? Ludicrous...
Me causing it with kombucha instead of beer for a change
lol do they still card for kombucha? I wonder how much of that you would have to drink in order to get the equivalent of the buzz you get from half of a bud light?
I don’t think it’s humanly possible.
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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