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Perhaps it's different with a store like Home Depot where products are much bigger and perhaps harder to scan, but do people actually dislike self checkouts? "
by ckosidows 7y ago
Perhaps it's different with a store like Home Depot where products are much bigger and perhaps harder to scan, but do people actually dislike self checkouts?
"Doing the work for the store" seems like such a non-argument to me. I would much prefer to scan things myself as I feel I can often do it faster, and I don't have to wait in a line if the store only has two cashiers staffed at a certain time.
You pump your own gas. Why is checking yourself out so much more controversial?
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoOne possible reason is that eliminates a whole category of unskilled labor? (full disclosure, writing this from Oregon, where we can't pump our own gas to preserve another category of unskilled labor jobs - except right now, thanks COVID-19?) I personally would probably prefer to have a human checker for that reason, I don't notice much improvement in speed or ease of checking out when I do it myself, there's just a line for the self-checkouts instead...
- FireBeyond 7y ago> writing this from Oregon, where we can't pump our own gas I thought that got changed a couple of years ago?
- dexterdog 7y agoNot that I know of. And NJ is still full serve only as well.
- FireBeyond 7y agohttps://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/03/want-to-pump-your-own-gas-oregon-bill-would-make-it-legal-statewide.html https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/03/want-to-pump-yo... This must have been what I was thinking of - I guess it didn't pass. I live in Washington but regularly journey down for Trail Blazers games.
- RussianCow 7y agoOnly in rural counties with a total population of less than 40,000 people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/03/i-dont-even-know-how-some-oregonians-panic-about-new-self-service-gas-law/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/0...
- monadic2 7y agoPersonally, I don’t mind driving through NJ for just this reason, traffic aside.