One plus about the pandemic for me is ordering items online late at night when I have time to think, pay for the items then having the groceries loaded into my car when I want to go and pick them up. There isn't a pick up charge either! Loving it especially when it is 115 outside! I will go inside a store (without a mask) if there is something I really need to pick out.
Grocery stores around here don't have any self-checkouts at all. Most of us refuse to work for free. The stores that have them should give a discount for scanning your own stuff. I don't know about anyone else, but I would be tempted to cheat the scanners, as I know a number of ways.
Last night in a market in LA I was buying a bunch of stuff and did an “item lookup” at a self check out for radishes (no barcode on the bushels) eight options popped up on the screen with very cryptic titles under each one, so I picked the bushel that looked the closets to what I thought I had and continued scanning. I needed help from the attendant on how to use some coupons and she asked about my radish price, the one I had selected was .49¢ but I wasn’t paying attention to the price - nor was the price visible when I selected the image. She said it was wrong: “that’s for an individual radish” and corrected it manually which changed the price to .99¢ - I didn’t care about the price, I wasn’t trying to be dishonest. Anyway, at that moment I realized how easy it would be if you were aware of “single” prices of an item, especially produce to game the system or check everything out as say - at the pound of lettuce price - making sure that barcodes of an item never see the scanner because it will ask you to weigh the item (scale is built into the scanning eye at our store). A $6 box of Honey Nut Cheerios would magically turn into $1.65 (prices by weight). I don’t advocate this, but that’s how easy it would be. Keep in mind almost all self checkouts have cameras that are recording you the entire time. And never use your shoppers card. *This comment in no way endorses criminal activity.
I do know of one self checkout “hack” people can use at Target. I have a nephew that worked there recently during college. Prior to scanning anything choose the “I brought my own bag(s)” when it asks how many choose the maximum - I believe in LA it’s a four max. They give a .10/.15¢ discount off your purchase per bag. I use it when I’m buying only one item because screw commie Target!
All the Self-checkouts re-routed the traffic and people aren't typically waiting in a line as hostages to read the brain-dead headlines anymore.
One plus about the pandemic for me is ordering items online late at night when I have time to think, pay for the items then having the groceries loaded into my car when I want to go and pick them up. There isn't a pick up charge either! Loving it especially when it is 115 outside! I will go inside a store (without a mask) if there is something I really need to pick out.
Grocery stores around here don't have any self-checkouts at all. Most of us refuse to work for free. The stores that have them should give a discount for scanning your own stuff. I don't know about anyone else, but I would be tempted to cheat the scanners, as I know a number of ways.
Last night in a market in LA I was buying a bunch of stuff and did an “item lookup” at a self check out for radishes (no barcode on the bushels) eight options popped up on the screen with very cryptic titles under each one, so I picked the bushel that looked the closets to what I thought I had and continued scanning. I needed help from the attendant on how to use some coupons and she asked about my radish price, the one I had selected was .49¢ but I wasn’t paying attention to the price - nor was the price visible when I selected the image. She said it was wrong: “that’s for an individual radish” and corrected it manually which changed the price to .99¢ - I didn’t care about the price, I wasn’t trying to be dishonest. Anyway, at that moment I realized how easy it would be if you were aware of “single” prices of an item, especially produce to game the system or check everything out as say - at the pound of lettuce price - making sure that barcodes of an item never see the scanner because it will ask you to weigh the item (scale is built into the scanning eye at our store). A $6 box of Honey Nut Cheerios would magically turn into $1.65 (prices by weight). I don’t advocate this, but that’s how easy it would be. Keep in mind almost all self checkouts have cameras that are recording you the entire time. And never use your shoppers card. *This comment in no way endorses criminal activity.
I do know of one self checkout “hack” people can use at Target. I have a nephew that worked there recently during college. Prior to scanning anything choose the “I brought my own bag(s)” when it asks how many choose the maximum - I believe in LA it’s a four max. They give a .10/.15¢ discount off your purchase per bag. I use it when I’m buying only one item because screw commie Target!