Join the self-checkout gang
You’d think so, but even then I feel pressure. People go to the self checkouts for the quick and convenient process . Then here I am holding EVERYONE UP trying to gather my bags and fumbling around with my receipt. Every time.
Relish it. Go through your receipt and verify every item is in the bags. Bonus points for ticking off each entry with a pen and confirming the SKUs are correct.
You monster.
Just be like the slow driver in the left lane not giving a fuck.
sounds like your area needs more stores or at least more terminals, all the stores i’ve been to basically never have a queue for the self checkout.
Nope. Back in my day we got service buying gas. Now I have to pay more for gas and do it myself. You are destroying a society, and to a point making somebody not being able to have a job for as long as possible. You pay extra and corporate benefits
Eh, it’s just unecessary. I’m all in favor of phasing out boring, repetitive jobs. Have humans do fun things while robots run shit we don’t want to deal with.
My man, you the robot.
Except that’s not what happens
Yeah, all those fun things you can do without a job like sleeping in my car or wandering the streets.
Try shitting on the streets of San Francisco
I guess thats a fair point. I was talking more about stores tho where you can choose between self-checkout and normal checkout.
It will lead to self checkout only and security personal being the only employee. Basically you can see this at a gas station
This is why my home town has a bylaw indicating that fuel can only be dispensed by personnel of the business retailing the fuel. Sometimes people from out of town do insist on pumping their own gas though.
Sounds like a decent community. Kudos.
There’s no stopping automation. Even if the cashiers were free the big players would still go to a self service model.
It’s faster and less error prone, meaning more customers, meaning more profit.
It’s not automation if I have to do it instead. What you are describing is those amazon stores with cameras up to each customers rectum - and even amazon is closing these down.
Or just the paying with card gang…
Exactly what it feels like. Had this happen once and the 5 people behind me were like “dude calm down we’re not gonna shoot you lol, take your time”. Which didn’t calm me down. At all. 😂
Understandably, shooting someone isn’t really something one should joke about
I don’t live in America or Brazil if that helps haha
The problem is the idiot cashiers that want to hand you the coins, bills, and receipts in one pile. Do they not know those go 3 different places?
They do it this way in Japan. The solution is simple: you take everything, move to the self-bagging area (most supermarkets are self-bagging), and do your sorting and tidying there.
Just a few tables to get things in order before leaving the store.
Is that not the standard way to hand them to a customer?
AFAIK it is.
Not really sure why people are putting away their money while still standing in line anyways. I just step out of the way and let the next person go while I put away my cash and stuff.
How am I supposed to do that? I need 2 hands to separate the coins, bills, and receipt, but then I don’t have a hand to carry what I bought.
I usually slide the bag down to my elbow to free up a hand or I just throw it all in one pocket and worry about it later.
Yeah, we need a third arm!
Idgaf what’s five seconds gonna waste you? I’m already done with my purchase.
Or those people who pay for their stuff but still haven’t packed a single thing, so you have to wait even longer while they pack everything.
I hate it when that happens.
Me. I’m the next person in line. Hahaha
I like to not give a shot and take my time. Sometimes it works and I’m relaxed. Other times I feel the pressure and I’m awkward. Some employes like to scan the items so fast that I hardly have time to pack them in the bag then they just stand there looking at me with this face while I clumsily finish packing and pay.
Do you pay after packing? Here we pay before.
What happens to all your food? It just piles up ?
Yeah.
Here the employee just scans and does not pack. We do it hopefully faster than he/she packs then we are expected to pay. I’m in Europe. There’s also self-service machines which I prefer, no pressure there and there’s a single line for multiple machines, so I can take my sweet time without anyone looking at me.
Fuck that. If they want to force us to pack our own shit they can bloody well wait. I take my time to pack nicely and then I walk back to the payment system and pay. Usually the next customer is already encroaching on the pay terminal so I push them back by invading their personal space. Ever since covid and pushing for reusable bags they force us to pack our own stuff, they can reep what they they sow.
I’ve had that happen before when I used to work at Arby’s.
First customer of my shift, and this monster pays for a regular roast beef sandwich entirely in pennies. It was roughly 450~ pennies. I was ready to murder.
I just stuff it in my shirt pocket and fix it when I’m outside
This feels especially distressing while I’m stoned. Like people staring at me fumbling around in my pockets for what feels like an eternity, when the interaction really took like 25 seconds.
It’s because you paid in cash and everyone had to wait for the cashier to do what they do.
It had nothing to do with getting the money back in/on your person.
Just take your change and step to the side. Allows the next person to continue checking out and gives you plenty of time to put away your change.
Nah, take as much time as possible, and also always avoid the self-checkout. Don’t play along with these corporations trying to eliminate jobs, give the cashiers job security by asking lots of questions and taking your sweet ass time at the register. If you have to do self-checkout because there’s no open cashiers, always ask for assistance from the nearest attendant.
Hey, man. At least you’re not paying with a check.
If I go any faster, then I’ll probably drop it all and take even longer. Then it’ll be awkward for the both of us.
