• NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Sometimes the cashiers themselves are slow and scan items like they’re regretting every life decision they ever made.

      What I love about selfcheckout is I go at my pace, as fast or slow as I want to be.

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        Sometimes the cashiers themselves are slow and scan items like they’re regretting every life decision they ever made.

        Such a good description of my local cashiers’

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            I was working in fast food for a long time, it was more than enough for me, thank you.

            But looks like good job to automate, let people do something better.

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              You mean like those no employee convenience stores?

              I like the principal of it, but wonder how much extra work is involved in making sure all the products are properly tracked.

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          But that is the problem: when I go to a cashier I feel rushed to bag everything and pay in the time it takes a professional to scan everything. When I go to a self-checkout register, items are scanned exactly at the same rate that I bag them.

          At the same time, there is hardly any waiting for self-checkout lines. In other words, for my taste they are better in almost every way.

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            As soon as groceries having dedicated baggers (or cashiers who bag stuff for you) ceased to be a thing, I felt that pressure too.

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        1 year ago

        @sndmn
        Good grief! I do not like waiting in lines either. But to say an employee who serves the public should not speak to that public is pretty absurd. And yes, there are fast and slow checkers, just like there is variation in us all.

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              Not wasting my time waiting in checkout lines so I can act like some kind of social martyr does indeed make me happy.

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                There’s also the fact that you can have three self checkout terminals in the space of a single cashier. Even if it takes you twice as long as a cashier to cash out, you’ll be spending 50% less time in line for every cashier that’s been replaced with self checkout.

                Nowadays, I only use self checkout as well, because I can get through it in less than 30 seconds, almost never any lines.