“Don’t you hate it when you walk into a grocer and they expect you to pick out the items yourself? I don’t work here, I just want to say “1 pound of ham and 2 loafs of bread” at the clerk, pay and pick them up. I’ve been to this new Piggley Wiggly, can’t find anything, spent like an hour to find beans. Imagine if I was paid for that time, I would have made 15¢!”
OP in 1925, probably.
[…] Me: “I don’t work here”
This gives me big “ok boomer” vibes. Instead of this, imo, snarky response, could you not simply politely say that you prefer a human cashier?
Remember the human.
The point is that we are being asked as paying customers to perform work which previously employed people to do it for us, strictly out of a profit motive for the store.
They are destroying jobs by shifting the workload onto the customer, so that some chain cunt can marginally increase their already immense wealth while fucking over the workers and the customers.
Be all that as it may, I don’t see it as a justification for, imo, rude behavior towards others — in particular employees who, I would presume, have little control over the actions required of them while they are working.
As as introverted person, I gotta say self-checkout machines are my favourite invention in stores.
I AM the human cashier when I do self-checkout. People don’t care WHO or what does it, they themselves just don’t want to.
[…]People don’t care WHO or what does it, they themselves just don’t want to.
Then don’t? Are you arguing that there doesn’t exist an alternative that doesn’t require one to self-checkout?
I suppose you might also leave trash at your seat in a movie theater or restaurant. After all, cleaning up is someone else’s job and you don’t even work there. Plus, you can pat yourself on the back for contributing to that person’s job security with your added burden like some of the people here.
Genx here
Ok boomer
Some of us prefer non-human interaction
Do you prefer any human interaction?
/s kinda
I’m faster than anyone who works there, and I don’t need to worry about long lines (usually the self checkout is the faster option). The time saved is my payment.
I would be faster, if the tills didn’t have a bloody delay after placing the item in the bag, before it will scan the next one.
“Please place the item in the bagging area!!!”
“Unexpected item in the bagging area.” “Please place the item in the bagging area.” “Unexpected item in the bagging area.” “Please wait for assistance.”
This was funny like a decade ago when it was commonplace.
Stores in my area solved that at least 6 years ago, maybe even earlier than that.
Kroger 😂
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fun fact: you can get a discount at a self-checkout! grocery stores hate this one trick!
Uhh yeah there’s a camera there now, and literally my local grocery store of choice, Food Lion, fucking shows you your ass on its display screen. Which is basically saying “Fucking do it mother fucker, we dare you, we double dog dare you.”
You could probably do it if you never plan on entering that store ever again.
I know I’m in the minority but I prefer self checkout so I don’t have to talk to people. Same reason I quit customer service work. I do not want to hear about your day I want to pay for my shit and leave.
I know I’m in the minority
Dude look around the comment section. 90% talk about prefering self checkout
I’m with him, though, every few months the anti-self-checkout crowd is all up in arms
I somehow don’t remember the anti-ATM machine crowd angry about putting tellers out of work or the anti-microwave crowd putting restaurant workers out of work, or the anti-car crowd upset about putting trolley drivers out of work
Maybe you should speculate less and actually read some history?
Gee guess I missed “the ATM riots” day in history class
if i’ve learned anything from this thread it’s that y’all have awful self-checkouts.
I never understand the press they get. As someone that doesn’t want to have a chat with a stranger about everything I buy, self-checkouts are amazing. I don’t consider it extra work. OP should look at the history of supermarkets. We didn’t use to pick items off the shelves either.
Same with pumping gas. Self serve is the norm in so many places.
I pass the time ignoring the dangerous substance I’m handling untrained by thinking about how we stopped employing a specialists so that someone’s quarterly profits could go up a bit more.
You don’t need a tucking specialist to pump gas lmao
tucking specialist
Is this a type of drag queen? I agree you probably wouldn’t need one to pump gas.
