Do you uses self service checkouts ?

Unexpected item in the bagging area

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Only if the line is shorter. And the cashiers have customers that loaded their shopping carts with tons of stuff.

Cashiers seems to do a faster job when they are not backed up. And its a more personal experience.

No, I go there to buy their shit. I expect them to put me through the till and bag my shit. Otherwise, give me a name tag and pay me.

This. Whatever gets me out of there the quickest.

But what if vagisil is the only thing that clears up your conjunctivitis?

@bfa1509: why would someone use a feminine product for conjunctivitis? And what do those two things have to do with self checkout?

Lol .... Dude, thats funny. But yes, i also do if the line is way shorter. I try not to, it always has issues. Computers are not that great at that part yet. And there is always someone needing to be monitoring 4 automatic check outs, and when one has an issue, he cannot help the others. I think they need to be make as many real people checkouts as necessary.

You don't seriously expect all those poor men out there who rely on female-specific products for use off-label to clear their embarrassing illnesses to use a manned checkout desk do you? What if something like this happens:

If I don't have stuff from the produce or baking section that involves weighting shit or putting in codes, I prefer self-checkout.

as a neurotic person I always feel like cashiers are judging me for my purchases.

I don't really see the putting people out of jobs thing as a issue in this case. Who wants to work as a cashier/bagger

Hell, no! If they're not going going to knock 10% off my purchase, why the Hell am I gonna bag my own shit up? I'm giving a business the honor of taking my money in exchange for goods; now I gotta ring my stuff up with the busted-ass scanner, chagre me extra for a damn bag, then have the greeter check my receipt--when he was less than 5 feet away, giving me some side-eye, watching me bag up my own damn load of bread...like I'm smuggling a 65 inch hdtv under my damn shirt or something.

Whoever came up with this idea needs a brick upside his damn head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxINJzqzn4w

Expresses my opinions on self-checkout perfectly.

That's...actually why I use them. I get to check that everything gets bagged, gets bagged properly and that my eggs don't get put on my bread .

The purpose of customers using self-service checkouts if you have like less then 5 items in your hands and just want to get out fast is what it's good for. I like to say I find them to be very annoying, the damn machine talks too damn much, acts like I'm a first grader using it when I already know what and how it works for the past 7 years! The machine can't take raggedy bills for some reasons when the cash is still good and most of all, the people using them are slow as hell.

I'm gonna come and say that I rather just go to the nearest checkout cashiers cause they know what there doing and take my half-torn bills with no problems.

By the way TC, your wife is right, it is taking people's job in a way. Self-service machines are already taking over, in the few more decades, we could see no more cashiers if we as Humans don't stop being lazy and let the workers do the work for us when we go shopping.

Nope, never use it..never will..why?..give the companies more excuse to open up less manned checkout.. & hire less people. Wanna end up going to shopping one day..with no one to greet you except a robot voice..screw that. :P

depends on the store, walmart is ALWAYS packed with customers with a million items in their shopping carts

i don't really like self checkout, that stupid robot thing always calls that manager to look at my thingsl ol

Yes, because I hate meaningless small talk.

Yes I use them pretty much all the time, unless it's obvoius I'll get out quicker using another till.

I do have a few moans about them though

- people you use them for a week's shopping, they end up taking nearly 20 minutes because when scanning so many items they run into problems causing the cashier to have to come over several times.

- when it's busy, someone using them to buy booze, there is normally one attendant on to watch over about 20+ machines so they will hog a machine for a while waiting for authorization.

As you can tell I'm quite inpatient

Can't believe you guys have people to bag your groceries...that's so decadent :p Do you also have someone following you around the supermarket so you can point at products and they put them in your cart?

But yeah, I always do self checkout whenever possible. I'm normally faster at scanning products than the cashiers anyway and even if I do go to them they won't bag my stuff :p

Ah, someone who thinks like me lol!

I cant tell if that's sarcasm from the :p or if you're being super serious and adding that for humour.

@GTR12: I was being serious. The ":p" was a nod at the lazy bums who get their groceries bagged for them ;)

I've never really thought about it; I tend to just go to the shortest queue...

Not quite sure if that's self checkout, but here in Switzerland you get a device to scan your products as you buy them. So you can already put it in the bags the way they should be the very moment you take it off the shelves. My checkout is pretty much transfering the data from the handheld device to the payment terminal and paying for it.

@davillain-: those self service checkout machines need to made, programmed shipped to stores and need to be maintenaned.

They might create more jobs than they take away

@ArchoNils2 said:

Not quite sure if that's self checkout, but here in Switzerland you get a device to scan your products as you buy them. So you can already put it in the bags the way they should be the very moment you take it off the shelves. My checkout is pretty much transfering the data from the handheld device to the payment terminal and paying for it.

You guys must have some good folks. Here in the states, there are too many dirty thieves.

@todddow said:

@ArchoNils2 said:

Not quite sure if that's self checkout, but here in Switzerland you get a device to scan your products as you buy them. So you can already put it in the bags the way they should be the very moment you take it off the shelves. My checkout is pretty much transfering the data from the handheld device to the payment terminal and paying for it.

You guys must have some good folks. Here in the states, there are too many dirty thieves.

Yeah the crime rates are really low. We also have a lot of small shops directly at some farms. Those are usually small houses with a few fridges where you can buy stuff dirctly from the farmers. There is nobody working there. You just walk in, take what you like, calculate how much it costs and leave the money there. This is only possible when (almost) nobody is around stealing stuff ^^

@todddow said:

@ArchoNils2 said:

Not quite sure if that's self checkout, but here in Switzerland you get a device to scan your products as you buy them. So you can already put it in the bags the way they should be the very moment you take it off the shelves. My checkout is pretty much transfering the data from the handheld device to the payment terminal and paying for it.

You guys must have some good folks. Here in the states, there are too many dirty thieves.

You can still get randomly selected for getting your bags checked when you are making your payment. Doesn't happen often but it also deters people want to sneak in some free items.

@korvus said:

@todddow said:

@ArchoNils2 said:

Not quite sure if that's self checkout, but here in Switzerland you get a device to scan your products as you buy them. So you can already put it in the bags the way they should be the very moment you take it off the shelves. My checkout is pretty much transfering the data from the handheld device to the payment terminal and paying for it.

You guys must have some good folks. Here in the states, there are too many dirty thieves.

You can still get randomly selected for getting your bags checked when you are making your payment. Doesn't happen often but it also deters people want to sneak in some free items.

Oh hellow fellow swiss person :D Yeah it's true, there are some checks. But I haven't had one in the past half year (probably much longer, i don't remember really), so they become pretty rare as time goes on. I think it's mainly newcommers they check regulary.

Man, that sounds cool. I love me some fresh, organic, locally farmed foods, too.

@ArchoNils2: I'm Portuguese living in the Netherlands, but we have the same system here :D When I moved here I would get "randomly" searched every single time (you know those foreigners...thieves, the lot of them :p) but now since they know who I am they don't search anymore.

Almost always, yes.

1. It's faster.

2. Items are bagged more coherently/correctly/to my preference.

As much as I can if I less than 10-15 items or so. Much faster.

Yeah it's really awesome, you can get the stuff the same they they actually farm it, it's pretty awesome.

I'm not sure it has to do with race. At the beginning they do take you out more. But they try to spin it in a "in a case you do something wrong the can explain it to you" way. Once you use the service for some time they barely take you out if ever.

We don't have those around here.

Prefer self checkout. Place I usually shop got rid of them except for 10 items or less so that pissed me off. Looking for a new place to shop. I like my things bagged in a certain way and most cashiers **** it up.

Only if all the other lanes are busy.

I avoid it like the plague.

No because the self checkout can’t read my ID I have to deal with a human to get liquor.

He's clearly making a joke about "what if you have to buy a product that you might find personally embarrassing to have to purchase?" He's not literally suggesting that you should rub Vagisil in your eyes.

As to the point, that's a valid one. If someone is embarrassed about one of their purchases, self-checkout gives you an "interaction-less" option for buying such products.

As for self-checkout in general, I'm not against it. Yes, there is a degree of job redundancy that occurs as a result but that's true of all automation and I don't believe in impeding progress just to do things the way we have always done them. I don't think checkers will go away completely (at least, not until "self checkout" gets way more advanced than you basically doing the job of checkout yourself) and even if a given chain switched to all self-checkout, that would just incentivise those who dislike it to shop elsewhere.

Self-checkout can go pretty quick once you get the hang of it. There's a rhythm to it, and if you go too fast you make the process go slower.

-Byshop

Pretty much all the time. I normally don't buy over 5-10 items when I go to target or Walmart so I go straight to self-checkout to take care of my transaction.....

I feel that way about other customers, specifically the ones in front of me and behind me. I am overweight, so I put butter on the counter to buy, and I think the people around me are like "Oh yeah, like you need butter, buddy".

But I just say in my head "Bitch, butter is a staple. I'm not eating whole sticks of butter, I use a little bit here and there". I mean I use olive oil most of the time which, at like 130 cal per tablespoon, is actually more calorie rich than butter at 100, but has more health benefits. But what's the alternative? PAM and a nonstick pan? No thanks, I'd rather have a heart attack than cancer.

As for the topic, I will use them if I have like a handful of items or I am in a hurry. But honestly 90% of the time I go to the store it is to stock up for the week so I have a full cart, it's just worth it to me to wait in line and have someone bag it.

If cashiers were better at their job, I might care, but right now the only redeemable employee at the grocery stores I go to are the baggers, and there simply are not enough of them. I generally bag my stuff, anyway, because I feel bad for the cashier and the people behind me.

What they really need to do is set up the areas so they can bag as they scan, like put a little platform at knee level so they can put a bad at their left side and just put items in as they scan; right now they scan then shove them down the conveyer out of reach.

Yes I do if I have a few item like between 1-10 items otherwise I don't and go to a regular register.

Yes, if:

• I don't have any produce
• Regular lines are filled up