I donโt use self checkout anymore. Hereโs why
- The scales. I bring my own bags and you have to tare the scale against your bags before you can start scanning and it only works right about โ of the time. So someone has to come set it for me.
- If I donโt bring my own bags inside, my only option at self checkout is plastic. Paper bags are offered by cashiers. I like to know my bags can actually be recycled.
- Self checkout is constantly populated by old folks who would have had IE jam packed with garbage toolbars 15 years ago. They canโt work self checkout any faster than they could have waited in line.
- There is a 25 item limit. I see people with 40+ items in self checkout all the time. It just bogs down what used to be a fast thing.
- Finally, the biggest reason I stopped using it is because part of the cost of my groceries is to have a worker to ring me up and another to bag my stuff. By using self checkout, Iโm saving the store owner money. I am being the customer and the worker. This is my way of fighting back. If the cost of my groceries is going up, Iโm going to make sure that someone else has that little bit of extra job security. If we all stop using self checkout, they have to keep more cashiers on hand. I donโt think I have to explain how more people having more available hours to work is a better societal alternative.
There is a 25 item limit. I see people with 40+ items in self checkout all the time. It just bogs down what used to be a fast thing.
Where? Self checkout isnโt express checkout. I donโt think express checkout has been a thing for 5+ years.
Edit: Lol also I appreciate this as a major reason you donโt use self checkout. Thatโs completely fair:
Self checkout is constantly populated by old folks
Depends on the region. At least here in the states there are plenty of stores where the self checkout at Walmarts have signs saying <=25
I donโt think I have to explain how more people having more available hours to work is a better societal alternative.
Itโs only better if a human cashier can do the job better. Otherwise, youโre just making humans do money-work as an excuse to give them more hours.
For example, I could do everything at work on a pad with a pencil instead of using a computer. I would certainly have more hours!
The reason why that sounds insane is because everybody recognizes that using a computer is much faster and more efficient, so you should use that instead.
I donโt recall there being a item limit. Which is unfortunate because the people who have boatloads of carts and their carts already loaded. Theyโre the most fucking slowest ever that they even give old people a run for their money. Slowly raising items to scan. Slowly putting them in bags. Slowly paying. Slowly moving the fuck out of the way as they try navigating a heavy cart with all of the junk that theyโll barely like as soon as it gets home.
Fuck them.
And God forbid you move too fast for the machine to keep up! Fucking โmodernโ technology.
