Only if they don't require me to bag everything and leave it on the scale... cause I drive so far in, I usually have two carts full of stuff, and that just really sucks... when they tend to be for like 15 items or less.
Lets just say its not fun to bag two carts full of stuff at a self check out.
Just take some plastic totes with you. You don't have to bag and unbag your groceries and don't have plastic bags all over the house. I can box them faster than bagging too as you are always changing bags.
Do you ever notice when they bag your grocery store, the person bagging your groceries always puts your eggs on the bottom of the bag, and hen piles groceries on top of your eggs? What's up with that? If course some of the eggs get broken! Duh!š
If I am not in a rush and the line is not too bad, I like to chit chat a bit with the cashier. I worked as a cashier in HS in our neighborhood supermarket, C-Town or Pioneer. I still like human connections to some extent. when in a rush, I am in and out using the self checkout. Itās a nice feature.
However, while I usually avoid walmart like the plague, I ran in one evening and had quite a lot of items. I was surprised to see all the check out lanes closed. An employee said self check out was open. I didn't appreciate having worked all day to come to Walmart and have to do somebody else's job for them while the girl who is the paid walmart employee stands there watching me do her job for her. It had been a long day and this really irritated me.
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Yes because I am embarrassed. I once had a card decline and it was an awful experience. Morally I would be against them but the cashiers I get at Walmart and most other places are never happy about what they're doing and it mainly seems an inconvenience to them. Especially if I am buying a large quantity of items. I was spending a few hundred dollars once on groceries and some household items, and the cashier was clearly none so happy about my shopping spree. So I always feel like I am doing nothing more than inconveniencing them.
Even though self-checkout is more convenient I find myself running into problems so I use the cashier I do know people who use the self-checkout and have ripped the store off which I do not believe in I am anyone being a thief, stealing from a store is illegal and punishable by law.
If I am positive I know I can work the machines and don't have it mess up on me, I will use a machine. But I prefer to do my transaction with a person. Besides, most of the time I had to get a person to help me with the machine so I just go to a person to start with.
But you have to watch the live checkers at Walmart. They hook your bags of stuff you paid all around this carousel and when it's time for you to leave with your stuff, sometimes a bag gets left on the carousel, so I always check all of the bags on it before leaving the store. A few times it was still on the carousel š
Self checkout. I HATE human cashier service! They don't even put stuff in your bag the right way because they don't care. And not to say I do this, but self-checkout is a hell of a lot easier way to steal. If caught, just go "Oops! I forgot about this one! Silly me!"
@humanearth Long time being enough to see an impact. And that being zero. Other then not having to hear people with few items whining about having to wait for people with two carts worth.
Self-checkout. No offense to any cashiers that may read this. Iām quick about ringing myself up and bagging my goods. I also like to keep cold foods with cold, laundry stuff with laundry stuff, etc. Iām sure some people already do that, but not in my area.
@Jamie05rhs it's a satellite thingy that works when it wants to but I get what you're saying. I have these discussions all the time. Some people argue that it's not off grid because I have solar electricity. Off grid is usually defined thusly: "not using or depending on public utilities, especially the supply of electricity"
@Bratsondanielle If you have solar electricity that's independent, then you're off grid. If you have the type of system that's plugged into the electric company, then you're not off grid.
I use self checkout whenever possible. It's even better at places like Home Depot where they have a scanning gun - I can do 40 items in about a minute. And since I am paying by card, there's no need for another person.
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No I prefer human to human interaction. I donāt want to cooperate with a system that is forcing people out of their jobs.
Yes grocery store managers. I want you to actually give real life people jobs instead of machines. I donāt want to have to ring up my own stuff and figure out how to squeeze it into the little plastic bags that you always have to fight with to open up.
Iāll gladly pay extra for a real person. They can be a senior citizen or a pimpled teenager, I donāt care.
I'd rather go to a live person, then I don't have to think so much about what I'm doing, because a lot of times I'll go after working a 12 hours shift at the hospital and my brain just wants to shut down at that point.
Oh yeah I would do it on my own unless I can find a shorter line. They're getting rid of plastic bags in my area due to pollution so it'll probably make even more sense to do it on my own unless they'll use paper bags. I guess I'll find out
I have tried them and it's very helpful. It varies. Sometimes I feel like being the boss and cashing by myself and sometimes I feel like going to a live cashier
At our local mini market, no. I like to have contact with them. Self check at the super market, shorter line and cash free and am not gonna put 100 things counter
Well, if I had a third option, I would pick neither and order offline cuz I'm not a people person, nor do I like being heavily looked at by employees when I'm at a self checkout. xD
@humanearth First of all, i am well aware of that Second of all, i never said those words, you're the one saying them Third of all, i am not going to have a pointless debate with a stranger
@humanearth It's essentially the same machine that checkout personnel use, not a robot. I, the customer, still have to scan every item, deal with coupons, bagging the goods and payment.
Stores have self-checkouts to reduce the number of employees they have to hire, which in today's world, is getting more difficult. They are finding it doesn't really save them money because theft is higher... some people don't scan every item.
When I buy small numbers of things I prefer self check out, more stuff I prefer a cashier. The pandemic has increased the number of items it takes to prefer a cashier over a robot.
For the convenience of quick checkout for small items, the self-checkout is fine. However, for every self-checkout machine, an employee has their hours cut or eliminated.
I usually use self checkouts because they are and there is usually a wait at the checkouts with a Person behind them, But I do miss talking to a live Person at the Checkouts.
I feel like people go to a live person instead of self checkout because that is the laziest option. They would rather have someone do it for them. With that being said, self checkout for me for sure.
@humanearth that robot does not replace a human... it frees a human to do so much more and many other things... than just packing and checking groceries
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