The faster you go the more likely you get free things! Win-win.
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I love them because i am not being rushed, i can pack my groceries up in peace and properly stacked in the bag. Meanwhile at a normal checkout a bored cashier routinely scans my 30 items in less than 10 seconds, leaving me struggling to pay, and pack up my shit while a dozen people are waiting in line behind me.
I imagine if OP were your cashier, they might be thinking of it as a game to see how fast they scan stuff. Bonus points if they make you sweat.
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The that's how stress killed OP.
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Shopping Any% speedrun (WR)
Gotta backhop around the store and trimp off the mobility scooter to jump over the aisles and get to the aisle you need, avoiding the unskippable cutscene of getting stuck behind someone who's abandoned their trolley in the middle of the aisle
Instructions unclear, speedrun ruined by RNG which put me directly behind a 98 year old lady at the till and subsequently had to endure an unskippable cutscene where she and the cashier are laughing about the things her new Pomeranians are doing.
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Thatβs just walking out without paying (without getting caught).
A risky skip that makes or brakes any run, especially as it causes a soft lock if you mess it up
Speed runners hate it because itβs so dependent on good RNG
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I'm busier thinking about the people that is being paid to make sure I do the checkouts.
Is your problem that fewer cashiers are being paid or that someone's being paid to make sure you don't steal anything?
It feels weird to me, like I feel pressured to do the cashier job on myself while the person that would normally do it watches.
And they'd do it faster, anyways!
That is what it is, but the person isn't watching just you, they're watching 10 at once, which means less queuing
I find I do it much faster than cashiers tend to, it's not a lot of effort and it takes less time out of my day than if they were to have done it for me
Thats exactly what it is Β―_(γ)_/Β―
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My problem is someone gets paid to double check that I did someone elseβs job (for free) properly.
I hate self-check out.
unexpected cumfart in bagging area
I hate when that happens.
I like it a lot. It's way quicker. Self check out greatly increase efficiency. One person can handle at least a few checkouts. Self checkouts also use way less space so there can be more checkouts than otherwise.
Here we also often have the option of carrying around a portable scanner when shopping so when it comes to paying you just dock the scanner, pay, walk out with your prepackaged bags.
Occasionally someone will check that you actually scanned everything but that's pretty rare and self checkouts still saves a lot of time.
Cool.
The ones here are clunky buggy pieces of shit and Iβd rather deal with a human with a job instead.
But Iβm all for choices so I have nothing against other people using self-checkouts.
Over here they tend to work pretty well depending on which store you're in
In Lidl you have to slow yourself down a bit because the weight system gets confused if you do it too fast
I don't mind that, I really hate having to wait in queue for 25 minutes while someone checks out their family of 8's monthly shop in the only open lane when I've got a packet of biscuits and a couple tins of soup
Or wait for the cashier who's fed up with their job to scan things 3x slower than I would, ask me if I've got a loyalty card, ask me if I want a receipt etc
I am a rather impatient individual I realise but self checkouts solve those problem for me. I get why people like normal ones but self checkouts seem logical
I'm with you about the cashier. I don't see how having somebody working an extremely mechanical job is a good thing for them. It must be so depressing.
I understand that people need to earn a living, but using people to be robots is a waste of their potential. At least with self checkout it's a bit more dynamic for that one person monitoring several checkouts.
Only benefit of self-checkout is buying steaks at bulk onion prices.
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I try to be as efficient as possible. I donβt think most people even think about it.