• otto@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    When it comes to self checkout, I avoid it at every opportunity. In times when I cannot avoid it, I only scan maybe one or two things of my entire grocery cart and then leave with 50 to 60 bucks worth of free groceries.

    If some store wants to try to screw me by forcing me to provide free labor, I’m gonna screw them right back.

    And I always win. Fuck Self check out.

    And it works. The three stores I most frequently shop at have all dropped self check out. I guess they got the message that fucking over their customers isn’t profitable. I wish more would get that message.

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      15 days ago

      Am I missing something? I’m on board with the stealing but I don’t get how self checkout is fucking over customers

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        15 days ago

        If you go to a store, and they force you to provide free labor before you can leave with the stuff you wanna buy, that’s what I would classify as “fucking over the customer”

        But maybe you enjoy providing free labor?

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          14 days ago

          It’s literally faster and more convenient??

          You also have to walk around in a store and can’t wait at a bar in the front while an underpaid intern is forced to fetch the items on your shopping list.

          Why would you want a service human just to scan your groceries?

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    15 days ago

    As a general rule I avoid any and all self checkout lanes. You want me to come into your building, find what I’m looking for, cart it around, check myself out, bring it to the car, and in some cases being the cart back inside.

    Should I be unloading the delivery trucks and putting it on the shelves for you too? How many fewer employees can you go for?

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      14 days ago

      Interesting. I avoid normal checkouts because self checkouts are so much more convenient and faster for me. I never use carts so maybe that’s the difference

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      15 days ago

      But this is literally how supermarkets provided cheaper prices than the local shops we all used to have. Customers swallow the external costs of last-mile transportation by driving to the business’s warehouse. They swallow the costs of service staff by serving themselves. You’re just describing their whole business model which, let’s not forget, we as a nation gleefully latched onto when it became available, forcing local grocers to close.

    • WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Same here, why would I do it myself when they have staff to do it for me? Should I cook my own steak at the restaurant as well?

      Also, it would decrease staff and still won’t lower the prices so fuck em

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        15 days ago

        Since when did Tesco’s - or any supermarket for that matter - bring stuff out to your car?

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    14 days ago

    Like most of these “anti-theft” pieces of shit, it only negatively impacts and inconveniences those who don’t steal (or don’t intend to steal). Everyone else is just going to find a way to steal.

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    14 days ago

    So I cant put my own backpack in the cart? I have to use a cart, no baskets allowed?

    Like the self-checkout registers with built in scales, this only inconveniences everyone while barely stopping any theft…