Is it really any faster?

And why do I feel like I am employed there while I’m trying to figure all this out?

May not be faster but it's definitely cheaper.....

One of the reasons I didn't pursue a career as a professional checker is that I am not very good at it. If a store insists on me checking myself out, they'll have to live with my mistakes.

I avoid the self check-out when I can, partly because over half of the time some clerk has to come make it work.

Its cheaper for the store so they can make more money and still sell you 5 cases of Jolt Cola for $13

It’s a real pain if I’m getting fruit

The scale dialog comes and oh my God....calgon take me away

I will not use self check out unless they give me employee discount.

And why is it there always seems to be 3 employees hanging around the self check out watching to make sure everyone is scanning all their items.
If there are that many people needed to monitor self check out, why not just open 3 more registers?

Fuggin a right i use it.

Even the DG has one ( and i mean 1 ) self checkout.

Never is working though.


It seems quicker to me.

No one is gonna take a buggy full to the SCO.

When they start paying I'll will start working.

Exactly!!!

Some kid in England bought a Playstation 5 at one by ringing it up as fruit.

Paid like 12 bucks for it by weight - normally 500...

I feel like they should just put me on the payroll.

Yeah, i don’t usually see to many boomers at self check outs.

Those extra registers are for looks. Prolly just cardboard.

I went to Academy for some Christmas shopping.

It was busy so everyone was in one long line. Then a boomer told you what register to go to.

Guys like “ find what you needed, making small talk “

I say ( nicely) “man, when they build these news store, why they put 15 registers? See how busy it is? You only got 5 going. ....”

All he could say was “good question” and just looked down at the floor.

I'll use it if I only have a few items at HD or Lowes.
Seldom at a grocery for the same reason as you, produce is a pain.

I hop on one of the mobility scooters they let you ride right thru to the check out girl she does it all

JamesJR don’t go cause his clearance stuff won’t ring up right. 🤪😂

about the only place i shop that has a self checkout is lowes and they give a 10% vets discount and you can't do that in the self checkout. but the rare time i hit a grocery store and they have a self checkout, i use it. i get a lot of free schit that way. my way to stick it to the man. man.

Except Renegade50

He be gettin his Boomer on in the selfie checkout

lmao

Wifey uses it, she has an engineering degree. She is way the hell smarter than me. I hate self checkout!!!!

I don't mind the self scans. I get to bag my stuff the way I want it bagged. I'm a hell of a lot faster than the typical check out clerk.

Stop it

Just stop


😃

He’ll be in line with an iPhone3.

Look lady, brickseek says this 50 pack of #2 pencils are $.25.

YES! I got all em. Even the ones they had stuck back behind bubble wrap.

#booyah

Watch out Slumlord or they might pay ya what your worth. By the way they even put fruit pictures up for you on the checkout till. Lol. Edk

Whether it's faster depends on how busy the store is. If there are 4 carts in every line and 8 carts in line for 6 self service machines, there's a good chance that you'll get through faster yourself. Usually the carts have less in them at SS stations, too.

If self checkout is my only choice, I will drop my stuff nearby & leave.

Those SOBs were hiding more in the back, I called my niece is a district manager and she made some calls and I ended up the other 2 grosses.

#booyah

If it helps me to avoid standing six deep in a line of people who are provisioning the 4th ID and don't begin to think about getting payment ready until the last item has been rung up, I will utilize it.

Hell yeah

Stick it to the man!!!

JFC ....
Guys we trained fugging cfhimptfanzees to fly in spacecraft in the early 60,s for gawds sakes.

Please master the self check out line for christ sakes.
You all are making us young boomers look bad.


It aint the bagging thing.
It aint the not on the payroll thing.

It's the tech intimidation thing.

Just try it a couple of times.
It is easy once you get over the trepidation of being possibly embarrassed.

Self check means management is shafting another Union Checker.

UCASS

...is my favorite Union

I don’t mind them but won’t use one if Slavyanka is with me because she starts bagging the stuff before I’m finished and the damned machine starts going haywire because it thinks we’re stealing stuff.

That’s my main reason to use it right there. I get to sort my items the way I want and I put more than 3 items in a bag.

If not self checkout, my personal rule is if the natural color of their hair is gone and it is now white, I won’t use them. 4 minutes per item plus the quiz of what I’m going to do with the thick sliced pepper bacon isn’t the reason I went grocery shopping.

Can you get your cigs at the self checkout?

askin' for a friend


mike r

Dollar General doesnt have self checkout


But what they do have is a blonde chick cashier that used to be a cheerleader at my high school. She calls me “hon” as if she is older than me. LOL
which, in a way she looks 10 years older than me. Like her face looks like Leatherface from texas chainsaw massacre

LOL

😂😂😂👍

Nooooo...
I have ta deal with shanaynay at the cigg aisle/check out for those.
And we all know what can happen with that.....
LOL!!!
I get em at the wally world murphy gas station.
Bout 50 to 75 cents less per pack at the murphy.


LOL!!!

Lol!!!!

#represent

They better recognize when Reloader-Two-Eight rolls in.

I wish they had self service meat slicing at the deli.

So i wouldn’t have to go thru the whole Ta’Nesha ordeal each time.

“Can i hep you”

“Yes ma’am. I’d like that all beef German bologna. A pound of it. “

“How tick?”

“Oh. You know. Bologna size”

“Look at the chert and see what size....”

“Yes ma’am. How about a 3”.

“A tree?”

“ yea ma’am. “

“How dis? “

“That’s shaved, not a 3”

“Dis?”

“No ma’am. That’s steak size. “

“Dis?”

Fug it. “Yes ma’am. That work fine. “.

“Her merch again”

“One pound”.

I use it at every opportunity.

I like people. But I don't really care to have to deal with said people. Especially the lady that thinks she needs to carry on an in-depth conversation with everyone that comes through her line. Talk about every damn item. Discuss the weather or the latest sale.

Or wait for someone to figure out how to run their card or challenge prices etc.

I can generally get through the self-checkout in way less time. With way less interaction with other customers and store employees.

Sucks at Kroger, works pretty good at Walmart. Hate 'em both. Gimmie a discount if you want me to do my own work.

I absolutely refuse to use them, if the store cannot employ people to serve me then the store can do without my money.

No give, no take...fuck 'em, I go elsewhere.

When there’s 42 people in line for the one register they have open, Shakeena’s working it and she went to all three years of 8th grade with half of those in line, yea, it’s faster.

Prezactly.
I’ll chose self-scan every time.

#hitthemwhereithurts

now........

that's funny !

If I have less than 6-7 items, which I almost always do have less than that, I use self checkout.

Scanning a barcode ain’t that hard. Usually no waiting and no stupid small talk. Get in, get out, and get on with my life.

At Sam's Club, we use an App. We scan our items as we put them in the cart. When we're done shopping, we hit finished. It rings it up, show this to the person at the door, they check our phone and out the door we go.
No waiting in line to check out.

I don't like em at all, but it's the way things
are going to be whether I like it or not.
When they first started it years back, I would
stand in a line 10 or 15 extra minutes to keep
from using a self check. Now, there's not
really much choice. You either check yourself
out or do without. The only reason they ever
went that route is to eliminate a paid employee
as someone already posted.
On the rare occasion that they do have a live
cashier, I'll take advantage of it unless there's
a black woman cashier and a black woman
customer in line in front of me, because they'll
dicker over each item and start the pendulum
finger and the chicken neck jive.
" Honey, you know doze tampons be on sale
en I be habben de koopon dat go widdit !"

" Yew no yoo kent be yoozen dat koopon on
a sale eyedum. Dat en ennytang procker en
gammul "

Until Safeway can hire people that don’t look like they consumed a vial of lithium before coming to work....I’ll continue to use self checkout.

Some of them, like our grocery store. will freeze up if you take anything off the tray before checking out. If you go through with a lot of stuff, you can't get it all on the tray. Others, like Wallys and Home Depot, have a hand scanner so you don't even have to take big stuff out of the cart. MUCH better.

You guys who don't like self checkouts - how much extra do you pay to have an attendant pump your gas? (yeah, I know you have to have them do it in OR).

I don't know - they used to call that "suicide".

Where is the LIKE button?

I have avoided self checkouts from the beginning. Except for cash outlets .

Self checkout is just one more of those things where I have to follow my wife around and do what she says... like Joe Biden and Jill Biden.

But..... but.........

You doing there job for them....
Supposed throw your stuff down and walk out in a hissy....
Cashier can’t bitch about how she’s 5 min late for her break....

Now that the Walmart’s pretty much doesn’t sell Ammo, i don’t buy smokes. No need for a cashier.

That is kinda funny. It takes 2-3 employees to make 1 self-checkout lane work.

Lol.

Walmart can afford someone to make sure you are not stealing, but not to check us out?

I usually see just one, sometimes two employees covering 6 to 10 self-checkout lanes at Walmart. They are there to watch, approve age restricted items (cough syrup, nicotine gum, etc.) and to remove anti-theft packaging.

Do all of you anti self checkout live somewhere that gas stations still have full service? If not, do you have the same complaints about pumping your own gas?

Who's complaining, bro? We're just here having some fun. Buy some boxers at Walmart. Get rid of them tighty-whities. They're crampin your style.

Lol.

No kidding. My incompetence now extends beyond not putting groceries in the refrigerator properly, apparently I’m just as inept at putting them in a plastic bag.

Your W2 is in the mail....

i don't trust those scanners. i think they give you the cane ser. if a store don't have the manual cash registers i throw my sheit on the floor and walk out with both fingers in the air.

there, hit two threads in one.

Self service gasoline is easy and fast. Self service groceries is complicated. I only use it if I have a few items. Once I had a lot, and there was a long line the cashier. I got frustrated and said very loudly, "Help, help, this damned place is an advertisement for (their competitor)." Someone came over right away and checked out my stuff.

Now I only go right when it opens on Monday morning. Cashier checks me out. Place is deserted. No waiting.

No.

Running a bar code across a scanner is far less complicated than operating whatever you used to log in here, be it a smart phone or computer.

I use the self checkout as much as possible, so I don't have to talk to the retard at the register: just the retard that comes over to check my age when buying shotgun shells.

It takes a [bleep] of people to generate, install and maintain those machines, let alone the retard standing there watching everyone and rebooting machines when needed, so the job stealing thing holds no water in my mind.

I like 'em.

Schitt be like kryptonite to some people.

LOL!!!

Who goes to a big assed store for just a couple things?

Thats dumb.


"I don't like people"......so you buy a can of sardines, a sleeve of crackers and a roll of one ply every day?


Makes sense. ...

When using the self checkout, who do you tip?

Never have used self checkout as we always pay with cash or check and never via credit card for groceries and don't have nor want a debit card.

Used to sometimes work with a Diebold field technician. He told me Diebold manufactured, sold, installed, and serviced self checkout equipment for many major chain stores. He said they were so trouble prone they had to have dedicated Diebold technicians either on site or on call 24/7 to keep them up and running and they don't work cheap.

For a while Home Depot was flagging spray paint at the self service machings. The store here, at least, quit doing that. I guess they sold so much that their people were wasting too much time with it.

I can buy those couple things cheaper at a bigger store, and I am a total tight ass OK? Get off my back dude. You're cramping my style.

Stop YELLING AT ME!

I only read the first 2 pages of this thread and all I have to say is........it sounds like a bunch of pre-boomers.

And you guy make fun of real Boomers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Boomers hate self checkout...

Always a pain when buying booze. Which is the main reason I go to the grocery store.

Tried one once, and ended up pissed off. Several stores do try to direct one in that direction, but I calmly explain that I end up in a bad mood and go look for a checkout line.

It’s great for buying Astroglide and orange sherbet

No weird looks

Haha.

Go thru Tarinaquerios line with a box of Magnums.

Damn white boy! It’ll make her eyes sparkle.

You guys complain about saving time? Back when the USSR was up and running, I read how supermarkets worked there. To start with, they never had much of a selection. You went in and walked around the store looking for what you wanted. Everything was guarded. When you found it, you went to the front, without the item, and paid for it. You took the receipt back to the guard and were given the item...IF it was still there. If not, you could look for another item the same price or you could get a refund and start all over. I remember reading about Soviet officials coming here and not believing how we do things. They thought they were being scammed by being taken to specially stocked stores to see how much stuff was in them.

Sounds like Service Merchandise.

Take the card. Go to the register. Then wait for it to come down
The conveyor belt.

At Kroger pushing a basket full toward the check out and Mr Manager turns out the light and points to the self check out .

I grab the beer and a bag of chips, walk to the self check out and leave the full cart just sitting there . He ask what about this stuff and the answer is "you can put it all back" . Wait and he gets a lady to check me out IDGAF .

Service Merch was the sheeit

Bought my wedding rings and a 30/06 at the same purchase

So you are actually a people person who is cheap as hell.

I understand...I once went into a Walmart for a jar of pickles.

They were out.

Impossible

I shopped in Russia in the early 90's . Took about 4 hours a week for schitty basic food and TP

Ill take Walmart self checkout any day ben if I have to wait for the overseer clerk in tight black jeans and white tennis shoes to ok my box of California vino and ammo

Heck yeah.

I was a youngster. I remember LEGOs and cross man pellet rifes.

#one man wolf pack.

No wonder you are always grumpy in those pics. 😂

Some things are better suited for self service, like pumping petrol, getting cash, etc, others such as grocery shopping, not so much. Plus I try to support employment wherever possible.

Born in 69, too young to be a boomer.
Not sure I fit into a pigeonhole.


Screw the self checkout.
5-10% discount? I'm in.

The more I see them installed, the more I stand in line
for the one register while 3 people look at the empty
self check lines, the more entrenched I become.

Was at Lowe's, the 2 cashiers were busy and one of the
attendants tried to wave me through the self checkout.

"No Ma'am, I'm waiting to be checked out."

"I'll get you here."

So she unloads the card, scans the chit takes my money
and feeds it into the machine!"

I'm thinking "This makes good sense, only it ain't gonna get
me to,.....

The machine phuggks up. She can't get my change out.

Put me in the unimpressed column.

I made my wife's life so miserable if she took me shopping, that we have not been to a store together in a couple of decades.

I do not care what she spends on the grandkids, and I do not care what color or size of flavor it is...I do not read cans and can't stand it when she does, so she gives me a list and I go get it at the grocery.

I can check myself out a lot quicker than the idiots they hire at most stores and do when I can.

I haven't been thru a self checkout lane in 30 years.

"Calgon take me away"? I haven't heard that in 30 years....

You wouldn’t make their standards! 😂😂😂😂

He needs to post pics of him in the blue vest...

I hate self checkout but my only recourse has been a few free limes and avocados here and there.

Sonsabitches.

Ahh so you are a thief?.


Same guys stumped by the self checkout are also stumped by 4 way stops and roundabouts. They are also the old fugg doing 55 in the left lane, hands at 10 and 2 with the right turn signal on.

For miles.

Just grab some bags. Put your items in the bag as you shop. When done take bags out of cart and proceed to car. Cheap and they do not ask if items are in a bag to see receipt.

Just grab items and run like the groids.