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I confess that the moment I saw self check out being installed at a grocery store in 2000, I felt the future was at hand. 22 years later, I go out of my way to

I confess that the moment I saw self check out being installed at a grocery store in 2000, I felt the future was at hand. 22 years later, I go out of my way to avoid them. I hate self check out. Have I become a Luddite? Lazy? I think I just really like the convenience of someone else ringing all of that up and putting it into the bags, etc. Edit: perhaps the future is to charge customers more who want full service. You can either check out and bag your own, or for some price more you get full service where someone else does it.

WalterBright 4y ago
I use both, with an internal evaluation about which is faster. Self-checkout is always slower, because you must complete one item at a time, and I don't have the codes for the produce memorized. With the cashier he can scan multiples at a time, has all the codes memorized, and I bag while he scans. So I look at the lines, the amounts in carts in the lines, who is in the lines, and make my guess which is faster.
abawany 4y ago
I still prefer them and go to one whenever I can, but that's because I just dislike the fake chit chat at regular checkout counters.
coffee_beqn 4y ago
I mean the store is making you do their very low paid tedious job for free on an inferior machine. It’s not exactly a barrel of laughs. I usually self checkout but I have an issue at least 70% of the time
tomjen3 4y ago
Self checkout would be a great idea, if you used the same software the cashiers used. Unfortunately, like every software made since 2010, its gimped so that it doesn't scare people, so its too slow. I used a scanner at home to scan my books (they are just usb keyboards, so surprisingly easy to integrate in e.g a spreadsheet), and the scan was so quick. I could go through all my grocecies in basically no time if all I had to was scan them. So I always pick the cashier, and then start reading on my phone while standing in line. This essentially reduces the wasted time close to zero, even if it does not reduce the wall time to zero.

WalterBright 4y ago

I use both, with an internal evaluation about which is faster. Self-checkout is always slower, because you must complete one item at a time, and I don't have the codes for the produce memorized. With the cashier he can scan multiples at a time, has all the codes memorized, and I bag while he scans. So I look at the lines, the amounts in carts in the lines, who is in the lines, and make my guess which is faster.

abawany 4y ago

I still prefer them and go to one whenever I can, but that's because I just dislike the fake chit chat at regular checkout counters.

coffee_beqn 4y ago

I mean the store is making you do their very low paid tedious job for free on an inferior machine. It’s not exactly a barrel of laughs. I usually self checkout but I have an issue at least 70% of the time

tomjen3 4y ago

Self checkout would be a great idea, if you used the same software the cashiers used. Unfortunately, like every software made since 2010, its gimped so that it doesn't scare people, so its too slow. I used a scanner at home to scan my books (they are just usb keyboards, so surprisingly easy to integrate in e.g a spreadsheet), and the scan was so quick. I could go through all my grocecies in basically no time if all I had to was scan them. So I always pick the cashier, and then start reading on my phone while standing in line. This essentially reduces the wasted time close to zero, even if it does not reduce the wall time to zero.