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[Anonymous No.11090435]

I need to vent
Why the fuck is everyone going to the automated self check out shit. I'm stemming right now

Everyone standing in line for self checkout and I just walk up to a counter for someone to ring me up and everyone else wants to do self check out and wait like a fucking idiot
WTF is going on?

[Anonymous No.11090547]

>>11090435
Imagine being this much of a loser, this is the complaint you make

[Anonymous No.11090560]

>>11090435
>Why the fuck is everyone going to the automated self check out shit
How do you mean? Customers?
Because there's a perception it's faster and more convenient, which is generally is unless you have produce

Companies? Because it's super fucking cheap compared to employing more humans

do you mean, "Why do people wait in line at the self checkout while the regular lanes are empty?" Could be a lot of reasons. Like I said, there's a perception it's faster. Could be they don't want to talk to anyone either. People tend to have blinders on at stores and only focus on what's ahead of them.

[Anonymous No.11090571]

Its coz I is buying stuff to put up me bum, innit?

[Anonymous No.11090576]

>>11090560
Self-checkout is slower. This is because the machine has to pause to check the weight of each product. The normal checkout line with a cashier does not have that problem.

the only time a self-checkout is faster is if there is no line at the self but there is a line at the cashier.

Millenials love self-checkouts because they don't have to interact with a human being to use them.

[Anonymous No.11090595]

>>11090576
Can confirm, but only because Millenials don't get off on treating Customer Service peons like human garbage so they can feel important

If I had a choice i'd rather be ignored by a millennial than condescended and insulted by a Boomer

t. Former Cashier Cuck

[Anonymous No.11090598]

>>11090576
I find it faster because there are no old shits having palsy shakes and writing checks.

[Anonymous No.11090619]

>>11090598
also no SNAP or EBT
No coupon debates
No 10 minute convo's with the cashier

[Anonymous No.11090623]

>>11090619
Yeah, the only real negative is the age check on stupid shit like glue, movies and alcohol.

[Anonymous No.11090625]

>>11090598
That falls under the "line" category.
Self checkouts can also have problems if some retard ahead of you can't figure out how scales work, has trouble entering codes for produce, or is buying something that requires an ID check.

[Anonymous No.11090640]

>>11090560
It actually is faster in my experience. There’s never more than 2-3 cashier lanes open and they fill with people buying a week’s worth of food for a family, whereas the self check out has like 8 machines and no one has a full cart. Also cashier machines most definitely weigh the food dipshit, it’s the same system, but cashiers are faster at it because they eventually memorize most produce codes.

[Anonymous No.11090656]

>>11090625
I rarely encounter lines at self checkout, and traditional checkout inherently creates huge lines. It also seems after the self checkout boom that stores don't train their register monkeys as well

[Anonymous No.11090659]

>>11090435
>Muh living wage for a high schoolers job
That's why.

[Anonymous No.11090666]

>>11090435
lucky for you your line was empty and you had no wait you absolute cuntrocket

[Anonymous No.11090669]

>>11090640
Cashier systems contain scales that weigh foods that are sold by weight, like produce. They do not, however, stop to verify the weight of every item scanned. That is an anti-theft function that only the self checkouts have. Its purpose is to stop people switching barcodes on product.

But sure, if the cashiers have lines and the self-checkout is open the self will be faster. My point was that if we assume there are no lines the cashiers are faster.

[Anonymous No.11090673]

As technology continues to allow us to avoid interaction with one another, we may become further uncomfortable with eachother's presence and perhaps all of us will turn into Finns.

[Anonymous No.11090675]

>>11090560
if self-checkouts are super cheap then how come they don't have them at lidl and aldi?

checkmate retard

[Anonymous No.11090691]

They don't want to expose their great secret

[Anonymous No.11090697]

>>11090675
They aren't. You'll also note that they became a thing at the same time that security guards in supermarkets became a thing.

[Anonymous No.11090702]

>>11090697
>>11090675
Rather, it's more correct to say, they were SOLD to companies as being cheaper than covering the wage, benefits, and liabilities of a living employee. Maintenance and shrinkage/loss thanks to johnny five-fingers means they actually break even.

[Anonymous No.11090711]

>>11090702
And to help offset this, security guards were pitched as the solution.

If you don't have a market, you make a market. G4 is the world's largest employer.

[Anonymous No.11090713]

>>11090697
>they became a thing at the same time that security guards in supermarkets became a thing
Is this a bot generated post?

[Anonymous No.11090716]

>>11090711
>G4 is the world's largest employer.
Wrong, the US DoD is the worlds largest employer.
Why do you this make shit up?

[Anonymous No.11090718]

>>11090711
to be fair, nogs would've made it necessary eventually anyway

[Anonymous No.11090723]

>>11090435
A subtle queueing theory thread, nicely done anon.

Self checkout is less risky because you're unlikely to have a full group of 10 retards who all can't use the machine so the queue is always moving, but if you get unlucky at a human queue you're committed to waiting however long it takes for the problem customer to get sorted.

>>11090675
They have self checkouts in all the Lidls where I live.

[Anonymous No.11090725]

>It is the world's third-largest private employer, the largest European and African private employer, and among the largest on the London Stock Exchange

[Anonymous No.11090732]

>>11090716
I missed security out of the sentence, numbnuts. It's still over half a million people providing services that practically nobody needs, least of all your local supermarket.

[Anonymous No.11090736]

>>11090732
>practically nobody needs
idk how it is in europe but over here we need someone to keep the grocery clowns in line or they'll replace our babies with whoopie cushions

[Anonymous No.11090747]

>>11090736
Well whoopie cushions are much less weekly maintenance

[Anonymous No.11090767]

>>11090435
Because everyone has autism and would rather wait longer than interact with a human

[Anonymous No.11090840]

>>11090595
This.

[Anonymous No.11091511]

>>11090435
The line may be long but it moves very fast since everybody usually lines up for all self-registers at once