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* Or so you don’t have to face the ugly pimpled 14-year boy at the register.
I don’t mind buying a lot of stuff at the store, but my KY his and hers doesn’t need to be seen by the old fart at the register!
you cant even work at a cash register at 14
not in Canada.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahah truuee
or maybe the SUPER fat old lady
Yeah. I’m totally embarrassed from the package of screws I buy at Home Depot!
It’s more like “no manned registers are open”. They force you into the self check out line.
* or because the majority of cashiers in the world are idiots and you would rather do the work yourself than lower your iq by dealing with them.
Actually, I do it for the opposite reason, because customers are always idiots and cashiers hate their jobs, so I’m going to make work slightly easier for them.
So you’re saying you’re an idiot?
Heh, my boyfriend and I went through a manned checkout with KY lube and clothesline. The two items were unrelated though…
until you got home, then you thought hmmm.
You forgot the “hates people” section.
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I don’t think that we should have self-checkout stands because they diminish the number of existing jobs…
Hey, that’s a great idea! How about we also do away with ATMs, calculators, computers and mechanized assembly lines while we’re at it? Since they all take jobs away from people?
I shall eschew my mode of transportation as well and hire a man to pull me in a rickshaw.
yes, but self checkout stands are the something we don’t exactly need…
Mind, many gas stations still feed the need to declare their pumps ‘self-serv’ decades after it became the norm.
The self-check lanes are a good business plan, in terms of cutting labor and increasing checkout flow, yet they’re inevitably clogged-out by either peeps with heaping carts or total incompetents with produce or bakery selections which they’re fully lost on how to index in the system, or fistfulls of expired, or otherwise shady, coupons. Also, there’s usually intended to be a single cashier manning the self-check lanes, who is often absent (or completely absent whenever there’s an ‘issue’, such as an age-restricted buy… like beer.)
But F it… It’s just an awkward stage… Trust, sometime soon, we’ll just load cart and wheel out the door, and the chip-scanners will bill our accounts. Sooner than you think, really… The concept of adding microchips to packaging is old-school and cheap tech already.
Yup, I’m going with the “only 1 manned register and it’s a 14-year-old high school dropout who doesn’t speak my language and can’t count past 4, with 22 people in line each buying enough stuff to start a small European nation.” I fricking hate modern commerce; don’t pay your customer-service people crap, they quit and move on to someplace that pays people who can walk and chew gum at the same time, so you end up with HURR PUSH BUTTON DURR HURR. As regards buying embarrassing stuff, oh screw that; I buy condoms, enemas, pads for my wife, I couldn’t care less what people think of what I buy.
Don’t poop for 2 weeks?!
I am unsure how one gets in that condition unless they’ve been bedridden for that long. EAT MORE FIBER PEOPLE! It’s good for you! Raisin Bran with chopped strawberries = Love.
If you need to buy laxatives, Prep H, condoms or lubricant, the cashier has seen all that stuff before hundreds of times. Don’t be embarrassed about it! Take it from an ex-cashier: The cashier isn’t judging you, she probably isn’t even paying attention to anything but the barcode and answering any questions you have – if the cashier is doing anything else, they aren’t doing their job properly!
I’m sure more than a few days would be painful, but alot people wait close to a week or longer. I have had a couple that hadn’t pooped in 2 weeks.
Fiber is food and your friend.
I wish I could start a nationwide campaign like in that Dudley Moore movie “This is a fiber bulk laxative. It helps you go to the bathroom. If you don’t go to the bathroom, you could get cancer and DIE.” Poop daily people!!! It’s really really important!! Big ones!! Eat fiber until you whinny for Chrissake!!!
LOL I wish I could tell people that…poop or you’ll get cancer and DIE.
Contrary to the way he was portrayed in that movie that was a vague excuse to get Lara Flynn Boyle and Bridget Fonda topless, Dr. Kellogg was right – eat vegetables and whole grains, drink lots of fresh water, and pooooooooop ’til your eyes cave into your skull. = )
or, ya know the store only has 1 manned register and 25 self checkouts
what about so you can choose “spanish” and annoy the hell out of your girlfriend, because…you know….she thinks it “draws attention”
Heh, y’all should come to South Florida then, where Spanish doesn’t draw any attention at all. I think more people speak Spanish here than in Spain.
There’s also the people that use them because they think that it’ll be easy to get away with stealing stuff.
What about “masochism” and “suffers from low blood pressure?”
Fail.
It’s only funny if it’s true.
It’s just faster.
Yup! I use the self checkout when it’s faster than waiting in line, which usually means I only have a few items.
I was a cashier at CVS when I was a teenager and I never paid attention to what people were buying. If you’re worried about what a cashier thinks about you based on what you’re purchasing, you’ve already lost the game of Life.
For whatever value of “place the item on the bagging table. Remove the item from the bagging table. Place the item on the bagging table” is “faster.” BAH!! Stupidest machines in all the world.
I think playing with the scanner is fun.
Yeah same
Judging by the Walmart by my house, the reason people go through those so that they can piss me off by buying enough food to feed the entire Duggar family for at LEAST 2 weeks.
Seriously. The self checkout is for people that have a few items, but don’t feel like waiting in line. If you can’t figure out how to work the stupid scanner and touch screen, DON’T TRY TO DO IT YOURSELF. Geez.
That sucks. At the grocery store I go to, they have the small self-checkout stations (12 item limit, I think), then big ones with conveyors. There’s no longer any reason to have to deal with the morons on the registers.
Only downside to self-checkout is buying alcohol. They take forever to walk their fat asses over and punch in your birth date.
I prefer someone checking me out, then those cumbersome machines.
Yeah, I hate when those machines are eye-ing me. It is kind of creepy. They are not my type at all.
That’s what she said.
Or in the case of some places late at night: Because those are the only registers open at the time. Sorry, but I graduated high school and college so that I wouldn’t have to end up working a job like that, yet I’m forced to do it anyway, while some teenager sits at a desk “overlooking” each of the registers (but is actually busy texting on his/her phone). That late at night, I tell the kid to ring it up for me. It’s not my job.
Should have gotten a better degree.
You missed out the “Only choice offered by store” in this ever deteriorating society.
Because we care so much about what a 14 year old high school dropout cashier thinks of the things we buy….seriously who cares if the cashier judges you or not?
IMO, going to the self check out with condoms/emergency contraceptives/pregnancy tests/medication just makes things 10x more complicated.
Any why the hell would I go to the register and wait in line for 10 min if I only buy a gallon of milk and some eggs?
I am a cashier and I use the self checkout mostly because I don’t trust other cashiers to treat my products properly or bag my items how I prefer they be bagged. I’ve seen enough co-workers mishandle bags of chips and bread and cringe whenever they do it. Like the saying goes, if you can’t get something done right, do it yourself!
I just like not having to deal with another person and having to make small talk.
I agree with this and I mean no disrespect to people who have mental disabilities but sometimes the “bagger” level of conversation is roughly equivalent to talking to a stapler.
Most baggers have to strike up a conversation as per story policy. Do you honestly think a bagger would talk to you about the geopolitical situation in Latin America in the 7 minutes it takes from bagging groceries to putting them away in a car?
Most of the stuff they say is a pretty canned response, unless your a regular that they really enjoy.
I totally wouldn’t mind a little convo about Chavez and the status of the Cuba embargo; I’m talking about guys who can’t even come up with “Tree. Pretty tree. Dog bark. Buhh.”
Ah, I see you know “Horse Face” Emilio. He’s a good kid.
Once I saw a guy that appeared to be in his late 50s at a U-Scan in Walmart buying what appeared to be about 10 boxes of condoms.
Even if you’re embarrassed by your purchases, they WILL be seen. =p
and even if you try to hide your items from the public view…. everything you scan shows up on our monitor.
If it weren’t for those self-checkouts, I would have never been able to buy condoms, lube, and rubber gloves!
Fun night?
You forgot
“Going to ring all my produce as bananas to get it cheaper”
I personally do it because I’m still amused by touch-screens:)
Bcus i got a pimple big enough to name lol
…. Bad social skill should really b up on that chart… oh the irony
my Caps lock light just burnt out
Wow this is 100% true for me.
I am a cashier and I disagree that we’re idiots. We’re students making some money while we go to school for healthcare, biomedical engineering, law enforcement, and computer science (and those are real examples from my store location). Some of us already have degrees and we’re trying to find jobs in our fields. We like helping people find what they want at a fair price, and the real idiots I meet are some customers who can’t figure out what money to give me and forget their own phone numbers!
I agree with you. I work as a cashier and I’m just making money for college. I dream of getting a Ph.D one day. It bothers me when people do say cashiers are stupid. Where I work, we have to be smart at our job. It’s hard to find a job now a days. You have to be grateful for what you got, even if it seems simple.
Also, as a cashier, we don’t care about what you are buying. It’s your business and quite honestly, we don’t want to imagine why you are using it. Get over yourselves. We deal with hundreds of customers a day.
Also because while not all cashiers are idiots, a lot of them can’t pack a paper bag. Let alone when using a reusable bag. Have you ever seen someone try to use one of those? The cashiers end up giving you this look.
Love how the customers call checkout chicks useless idiots when they cant even operate a self checkout thats 10 times easier to use than your standard checkout, dont know what the word quantity means, decide they want to put their eftpos card where you notes go in, and call the attendants rude because they are just pointing that yes! C is for Carrot, as well as the fact that a MACHINE cant tell if your of age to be buying alcohol hence why the attendant must step in. And ohhh yeah ZERO for ZERO BAGS!!! Idioits!!!
I use it to get rid of all the change that builds up in my wallet so I don’t have to break a $20 for a $5 purchase… I think I paid for something that was $5 in all change once. It’s awkward handing $5 in coins to a cashier, but not to a machine.