I've started to see people more and more exploiting it in their favor, faking scans, "accidentally" missing it on an item, choosing non-organic when purchasing organic, etc.
This doesn’t surprise me - at least for veggies. The scale on those things is so sensitive that I wouldn’t think you’d get away with pretending to scan.... unless the product goes somewhere else.
Me? My conscience would not allow me to do it. Breaking the rules and not wearing my mask was so hard!
Stores around here don't have scales for what goes in the bag, only if you need to scan them for a label or need to select at checkout to weigh it.
So if you "miss" the label on a scan and "don't realize it", you can bag it and be totally fine.
My moral compass doesn't allow me to do it either, and I don't necessarily see self checkout as the problem others here do as I prefer the speed of checking out on my own over dawdling and marching at the pace of whichever cashier I have, especially for a small number of items, but ever since someone has mentioned that on this very forum I've started to see it happen in person.
I don't use the self checkout because I feel like cattle herded down a chute to a liberal state. We actually have lanes with those temporary retractable barriers. The checkouts always mess up and it takes forever to get the tech to resolve it. I like to chat with the cashiers. Frankly self checkouts are just another thing encouraging us to be impersonal.
I tried telling fam not to use them, but no. Too "convenient" for my impatient people. So, now they are working for free and have helped everyone lose job positions. Yay.
I hear what you’re saying.... don’t prohibit the development of the automobile to save the jobs of the farriers. However, I’m still paying prices based on the staff being there . And I do believe that the human interaction is a beautiful part of daily life.
Making customers check their own groceries is not a technological advance. That technology has been available in grocery stores for 30 years.. This is a rip off and charging the customer for free labor on top of all the inflation. They can go f*** themselves.
I don’t think anyone’s getting tricked into doing labor when it comes to self-checkouts. Nobody gets done with it and then says “wait a minute! I could have had someone do that for me!” Everyone who does self-checkouts has themselves determined that the “labor” is worth it to them. Whether prices are too high in general is another story.
Avoid them like the plague.
I don't use them. If you want to give me a discount... I might...? But really... No way.
I've started to see people more and more exploiting it in their favor, faking scans, "accidentally" missing it on an item, choosing non-organic when purchasing organic, etc.
This doesn’t surprise me - at least for veggies. The scale on those things is so sensitive that I wouldn’t think you’d get away with pretending to scan.... unless the product goes somewhere else.
Me? My conscience would not allow me to do it. Breaking the rules and not wearing my mask was so hard!
Stores around here don't have scales for what goes in the bag, only if you need to scan them for a label or need to select at checkout to weigh it.
So if you "miss" the label on a scan and "don't realize it", you can bag it and be totally fine.
My moral compass doesn't allow me to do it either, and I don't necessarily see self checkout as the problem others here do as I prefer the speed of checking out on my own over dawdling and marching at the pace of whichever cashier I have, especially for a small number of items, but ever since someone has mentioned that on this very forum I've started to see it happen in person.
I don't use the self checkout because I feel like cattle herded down a chute to a liberal state. We actually have lanes with those temporary retractable barriers. The checkouts always mess up and it takes forever to get the tech to resolve it. I like to chat with the cashiers. Frankly self checkouts are just another thing encouraging us to be impersonal.
I tried telling fam not to use them, but no. Too "convenient" for my impatient people. So, now they are working for free and have helped everyone lose job positions. Yay.
Agree. This will be bad for the people working there.
I also agree, the tractor will kill HUNDREDS of jobs. WTF are people thinking?
I hope I don't need to add an /s there. But I probably do if people are worried about pointless work disappearing thanks to technological advances.
I hear what you’re saying.... don’t prohibit the development of the automobile to save the jobs of the farriers. However, I’m still paying prices based on the staff being there . And I do believe that the human interaction is a beautiful part of daily life.
Making customers check their own groceries is not a technological advance. That technology has been available in grocery stores for 30 years.. This is a rip off and charging the customer for free labor on top of all the inflation. They can go f*** themselves.
I don’t think anyone’s getting tricked into doing labor when it comes to self-checkouts. Nobody gets done with it and then says “wait a minute! I could have had someone do that for me!” Everyone who does self-checkouts has themselves determined that the “labor” is worth it to them. Whether prices are too high in general is another story.
Actually most people doing self checkouts are because these places are understaffed and the ones that are staffing are very slow.
If I go to a store for one item, I don't want to have to sit in a line for 10-45 minutes (as I had to recently, almost for an hour!)
This is also why self checkout with a hard item limit is the better middle ground.