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I guess self-checkout is a matter of taste and/or opinion. Personally, I prefer it at the grocery store when I have the choice.
by drdeadringer 7y ago
I guess self-checkout is a matter of taste and/or opinion. Personally, I prefer it at the grocery store when I have the choice.
- wtallis 7y agoIt's not a matter of taste. It's a question of whether your preferred grocery store employs any experienced cashiers and baggers, and the degree to which their self-checkout machines are artificially dumbed-down and slowed-down. In most cases, the customer-facing self checkout systems are objectively much slower and more cumbersome than the manned checkout systems that require some training and practice to use correctly. Paid cashiers never have to slow down their scanning because of a spurious reading from a scale in the bagging area. They get real keyboards to interact with the computer, and user interfaces that are far more responsive than the typical touchscreen UI's update latency.
- drdeadringer 7y agoWhiles some of that may be true, I can still get through via self-checkout faster than a manned station most of the time. Then again, I'm not buying 57 individual items in a line 6 people deep who are all buying similar amounts of items. Perhaps you are. A matter of taste.