FOUR. THIRTY NINE.
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If you are finished scanning, plea[beep]ELEVEN. SEVENTY NINE.
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If you are finished scannin[beep]SIX. DOLLARS.
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If you are fi[beep]TWO. TWENTY FIVE.
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If you are finished scanning, pl[beep]EIGHTY NINE. CENTS.
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If you ar[beep]ONE. NINETEEN.
What costs 89 cents?
Herbs are sometimes that cheap, limes on sale are often 4 for a dollar. Then there’s the bakery markdown that always gets us.
I’m so happy I never had to deal with a speaking self-checkout. Only the little tüt when the barcode was scanned successfully and that’s it.
They used to let you mute them at the stores I frequent, but then they decided to take that feature away.
Thankfully it only verbalizes items that you key in, where there is no barcode. But I wish it didn’t.
“Help is on the way…”
I once had a dude working on monitoring the self checkouts get mad at me for having a bag that made the machine freak out and lock itself down when I sat it in the bagging area. Nothing crazy, just a normal canvas grocery bag. I don’t control your manager setting it so that anything heavier than the paper store bags set it off, dude!
They also use cameras overhead to track items in your hands. I was buying a few of an item, so I scanned one, and put it in the bag while holding another (unscanned), but that made it mad…
I apparently scan stuff too fast, so I get flagged multiple times while checking out. And I’m not really any faster than a cashier. That’s really only at Kroger, though
I will never not read this in Mrs. Doubtfire’s voice.
Haven’t you always wanted to work as a grocery cashier, but for free, and with a worse register?
Ever wanted to just skip the line and get out of the store faster?
If you skip it entirely, you can get your food for free! Grocery stores hate this one simple trick.
It’s how I get organic produce for regular prices. I wasn’t trained to be a cashier. It’s an onion as far as I know. A potato is a potato, I’m not a farmer.
tap I’m using my own bag
“put bag in bagging area”
places bag in bagging area
“unknown item in bagging area, please wait for attendant”
Fml
Don’t do that, say you have 0 bags and after you pay put everything in youR bag quickly.
Where is that a problem? Where I’m from self checkouts work fine. I’m not even coming into a store unless it has a self checkout.
You’re obviously not British
There is a version with a scale. Where if your item is not within the small allowed weight, it will not work. I have also seen one with a camera, and if the AI things it is the wrong item it would also lock up.
Both of these options I hate because it gets 50-75% flagged wrong, and it’s literally faster just to wait in the old fashioned que
I’m glad everyone in my country got rid of the scales, haven’t seen one in close to a decade. They just work.
So go to the queue. I don’t see the problem. We only have the scale based ones and it works 99% of the time. Because how can a packedged product weigh any different?
Our supermarket doesn’t have the scales, and let you scan in store with your phone. So it’s just a QC code and a tap to walk out, super convenient for me, and cheaper for them.
If I go to a store with a scale, I will for sure just walk straight to the manual queue.
Agreed. I use the self-checkout stations almost exclusively for at least a decade, these memes are always confusing. Only time I have a problem is when I get carded for alcohol, otherwise I’m out the door.
People complaining about self checkouts, why do You use them? You can just simply stand in line for 20 minutes just like in the 90s.
20 minutes? Not even the old slow checkers have 20 minute lines these days. Although a 2020’s ten minutes sure can feel like a 90’s twenty.
because it’s a transfer of labor, at an expense to all of us. where 12 aisles used to be open on a weekend, now 1 is with a 8 spot self check.
i used to do cashier work at my store. back in the 90’s of course.
it’s all just a way to make more profit.
if i scan it and it fails twice, i steal it. and play stupid if seen. i never give a receipt if asked. i know they’re just a worker, underpaid, and UFCW doesn’t care about them, so i just keep walking and never press it. but yeah. fuck the self checks, even IF you still use the main line.
Today’s PC load letter
I usually just go to the real person.
I’ve noticed this “feature” disappearing from most self checkouts.
Fucking Kroger, every damn time
Ever since they added the gun holstered guards to check receipts I just took my ass to publix.
Fuck kroger
The poor people need to know their place right? /s
I prefer heb or Aldi. Haven’t heard of Publix.
Why are you the way that you are?
Sorry for answering a rhetorical question, but self-checkout is the way it is because stupid consumers meekly agreed to do work for big corporations for no pay. They designed a bad system because they don’t respect you. They don’t respect you because you are a fool.
I like self checkout, or when you can scan the items in the store with your phone or scanned. But o-my-god please no weighting stations, there so much trouble I will avoid them at all cost
If your checkout has a handheld scanner, try using that for the tricky items. It might disregard the weight.
this whole operation was your idea
I love self checkouts at Uniqlo, you just throw everything into it in a bag and it scans the whole bag in a second, showing you the list if you want to check it.
