> At my store, they are pushing to reduce checkout staff by "encouraging" customers to use self-checkout. It hasn't been going well, but this is a retail-wide t

> At my store, they are pushing to reduce checkout staff by "encouraging" customers to use self-checkout. It hasn't been going well, but this is a retail-wide trend, and cost-cutting pressures are immense. This infuriates me so much, I started to see if I could game the system. Fruit is the easy part, you fill your bag with the expensive fruit, and select apples or something cheap on the checkout scale. Works better on larger stores, the minimum wage person overseeing 6 self-checkout machines can't watch everything, maybe half the people need help, or the scale borks for some reason. My local supermarket replaced pre-packaged bread bags, weighted by the employees with a complete alacarte system which is complete shitshow. You pick the bread on one place, do your entire shopping and then have to remember what kind of SKU have you chosen. It's a complete waste of time for everyone, and I'm pretty sure the surrounding traditional bakeries won here, the bread selection has lowered substantially on the supermarket.