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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Haha, I am using the "I don't work here" line 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I live here in Toronto.

When I go to a store, I pay with cash.

I pay with Canadian money, because I'm a Canadian who buys from stores in Canada.

That was easy to do in Ontario Wal-Mart stores.

But then they put up self-check-outs that only accepted credit and debit cards—maybe because they're in cahoots with the banks and the NSA/wp:CSEC.

Then I had to use a cashier.

So I went to Wal-Mart fewer times as I didn't like to wait (as well as the increased prices during and after Covid-19).

Now they have a person at the self-checkout who will scan my stuff and accept my cash.

It seems that Wal-Mart adapted—somewhat—to people like me: people who pay with cash.

Still, I do more purchases at Food Basics and Dollarama because their self-check-outs accept cash, including pockets full of loose change that I purposely carry when I go there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

here in Germany the self-checkouts mostly have a cash machine so you can pay cash without a person there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've never seen a self-checkout that accepts cash in Germany.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Does that include your Wal-Mart stores? because that would be great. 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Management can fuck right the hell off. Self checkout is taking jobs away from people and getting us to work for free.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I once asked a cashier in Germany if she thought self-checkouts would take away her job. She said she liked them because there's enough to do anyway and they take away the boring task of cashier-ing.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I like them because it makes my bagging more efficient. At the lanes, if I'm getting a decent amount of groceries, I usually end up bagging for a while after I've paid and feel like a dick because I'm in the way of the people getting rung up behind me.

At self checkouts, I take it out of the cart, scan, then stick it right in the bag. Even better if they don't have the stupid weighing thing that assumes I'm trying to steal shit if they don't micromanage every item going into my bag.

Also, in this case, management is telling workers to not make fun of people who don't want to use self checkouts.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The closest Walmart to me has about a dozen or so self checkout tills and there is usually a line of 20 people waiting to get to them. There's 3 cashiers that are there to badge the machines when they need to check ID for alcohol or override the machine if you double scan an item. I love self checkouts in other stores but Walmart has always been infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The self checkout is a perfectly viable option, so long as Walmart can find the strength inside themselves to open 3-6 manned tills on a Sunday for folks with large carts or children. Nothing is more demoralizing than getting up to the checkouts after a huge shop and finding there isn't a single till open whatsoever. Throw in a four-year-old who wants to help scan every item and you're ready to burn the store down by the time you leave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought they stopped selling children at Walmart

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Never understood that argument. I want to be in and out as quickly as possible. Self checkout makes that happen.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'll be honest, going with the people that get paid to do it is way faster for bigger buys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I've found that I scan quicker than most of the people who are paid to do the job.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sometimes.... I've had lots of bad experiences with super slow checkout people. I would say most of the time, they were boomers themselves and spent half the time trying to make chit-chat.

That being said, I will still line up for a staffed checkout if I have a cart full because it is easier since I can bag and put in the cart as they're scanning. But also, many of the self checkouts here have a limit of like 10-20 items posted.

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