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> grocery store, and its self-checkout machines Which aren’t automation or even new technology. The stores just cleverly moved the work that must be done to un

> grocery store, and its self-checkout machines Which aren’t automation or even new technology. The stores just cleverly moved the work that must be done to unpaid laborers. The self-checkout machines are an inferior tool with an escape hatch (customer service is on the way) to the real tool which must be operated by an employee.

lotsofpulp 4y ago
Surely the ability to easily type and search for items is new technology. Customers do not have to memorize the codes, they can look them up. I find self checkout very beneficial, as I frequently have few items to purchase, and there are more self checkout registers available more consistently than there would be staff. For the same ~20 to 30 items I normally purchase, it takes me very little time to self checkout. For people with cartloads of items, they can go to the manned conveyor belts. For everyone else, they can go to one of the many self checkouts.
- johnchristopher 4y ago
  > For the same ~20 to 30 items I normally purchase, it takes me very little time to self checkout. For people with cartloads of items, they can go to the manned conveyor belts. For everyone else, they can go to one of the many self checkouts. Except if they have never used self checkout before. Or if they have 15 items in the store's cart but they haven't brought their shopping bags so they take 15 minutes to fill their arms and pockets and hats with their groceries. Those people are eating time saved by self-checkout ! I tolerate the young ones who comes in pack of 6 individuals, especially if only one of them buy their unique can of coke. It makes the queue looks longer than it is and I am out sooner than the SUCKERS in the other queue. HA ! (/s ? /s)
  - lotsofpulp 4y ago
    Sure, but in my experience, there are so many self checkout stalls that I never have to wait long.

lotsofpulp 4y ago

Surely the ability to easily type and search for items is new technology. Customers do not have to memorize the codes, they can look them up. I find self checkout very beneficial, as I frequently have few items to purchase, and there are more self checkout registers available more consistently than there would be staff. For the same ~20 to 30 items I normally purchase, it takes me very little time to self checkout. For people with cartloads of items, they can go to the manned conveyor belts. For everyone else, they can go to one of the many self checkouts.

johnchristopher 4y ago
> For the same ~20 to 30 items I normally purchase, it takes me very little time to self checkout. For people with cartloads of items, they can go to the manned conveyor belts. For everyone else, they can go to one of the many self checkouts. Except if they have never used self checkout before. Or if they have 15 items in the store's cart but they haven't brought their shopping bags so they take 15 minutes to fill their arms and pockets and hats with their groceries. Those people are eating time saved by self-checkout ! I tolerate the young ones who comes in pack of 6 individuals, especially if only one of them buy their unique can of coke. It makes the queue looks longer than it is and I am out sooner than the SUCKERS in the other queue. HA ! (/s ? /s)
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  Sure, but in my experience, there are so many self checkout stalls that I never have to wait long.