Reality Check by Dave Whamond for May 29, 2024

True horrors of retail

The only advantage is you get to bag your own groceries so you can make sure all items that require refrigeration are in the same sack and a drippy package of chicken isn’t stuffed on top of veggies you intended to eat raw. You can also put things that go on the same shelf of the pantry into the same sack in the store. But I hate that naggy robot voice trying to hurry me up when I’m scanning as fast as I can.

Ha! Joke’s on you, demon. I never use them.

They can’t pay me enough to do their work for them.

Then you have the wheels lock up and set off an alarm while holding the exit door open.

There’s a craft store that I’ve gone to occasionally for art supplies. The first time I went there, I was momentarily baffled to find that they had only self checkout. But they did have an employee near the front to help if needed.

Supermarkets want their customers to do everything themselves to cut down on staff, next they will want us to grow our own food and charge us for it.

The only reason I would use a self checkout, is if I got a discount for using it. Other than that, I don’t work for the store.

Hell’s Brainstorm…

Grapes. I ALWAYS have problems scanning grapes. They’ve admitted the scanners don’t like fruit. Always have to have someone help, who never cares a bit when I complain this problem always happens.

I use self checkout so much, I was voted Walmart employee of the year.

and they arrest you for shoplifting if something does not scan and fraud if it scans with the wrong price.

I was at a self-checkout once trying to buy a ribbon and bow for a present. It was so light that it wouldn’t register.

I don’t use self-check because I don’t want to take someone’s job. Especially at no pay to me.

Self Service is an oxymoron! Where is the service if you have to do it yourself?

Hell’s management has nothing on some of the places I’ve worked for.

I’m just here looking for Dave. I want to know why “Day by Dave” hasn’t changed from yesterday! I’d like to speak to the manager .

I take it this is the same department in H3ll that came up with automated customer service, phone lines.

“Our job is to make up rules, not to make sure that it’s possible to obey them.”

Plus you get to fire more staff!

Sam Walton’s heirs have a family meeting. :)

Thank God most stores got rid of the “unexpected item” feature.

The robot voice is horrible. “Place your item in the bagging area; NOW! And be efficient with it, you imbecile.”

The store should PAY us to do our own checkout – they have coopted their customers into providing free labor to save $$ on paying cashiers.

Don’t forget to add a tip option with the “no tip” well hidden.

I like self checkout. But then I’ve 25 years as a coder(Programmer) in preparation. ;-)

Don’t forget to add a step where you still ask for a tip while the customer is paying.

I refuse to use self check-outs, I don’t work there… if you want to give me a 2% discount than maybe. They just don’t understand marketing.

When they say: “Choose your language.” Boy, they don’t wanna hear MY language!!

pure evil…plain and simple

’Tis just another Psych-101 experiment.

“Please stay on the line, your call is very important to us.”…!

( hell causeth no more fury than that )

And, aside from the hassle and wast of your time, it takes a couple of jobs away from people who are probably not qualfied to do much else.

Aldi, which has the fastest checkout I’ve ever seen, does self-checkout the best. You don’t have to wait for a clerk to come over and tell the computer you’re old enough to buy alcohol. Instead, the clerk from one of the manned registers can remotely approve you. That eliminates one of the things I hate about self-checkout.

Plus they should charge extra for your bar code tattoo.

i once had a bagger put a watermelon on top of the bread

Yes, and charge extra in the form of a membership for the privilege of doing the work of the checkers who can then be laid off.