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>> at McDonalds. It takes 22 finger clicks on the screen to order a medium iced coffee and approximately 140 seconds The self-checkouts at Target where I live
by rufus_foreman 3y ago
>> at McDonalds. It takes 22 finger clicks on the screen to order a medium iced coffee and approximately 140 seconds
The self-checkouts at Target where I live are hilariously bad if you are paying with cash. Up to the point where you pay everything is fine, but then if you indicate that you are paying with cash, it says that it is preparing to accept the payment. It takes 20 seconds before it will let you put money in, like there is some sort of data processing it needs to do first. And every third or fourth bill that you put in gets jammed up and you have to pull it back out and re-insert it.
After you put in enough money to cover the amount due, it prints the receipt right away, but it takes another 20 seconds before it gives you the paper money change, like it has to do some more hard-core processing to figure out that 40 dollars minus 37 dollars equals 3 dollars.
The coin change takes even longer, like there is some advanced algorithm it uses to make change that takes it half a minute. Then, as a final "fuck you" to the customer for daring to pay with cash, the receptacle where the change comes out is set up so that unless you put your hand in front of it, it spits half the change out onto the floor.
It's so bad that it doesn't even make me angry any more, it just makes me laugh.
- Eisenstein 3y agoThere is a Target in my area that I sometimes go to that only has self-checkout machines. I go to the person supervising the machines and ask them to operate it for me and hand them the money. I know it seems dickish but I have never once used a self-checkout that I didn't hate and which didn't have some weird issue (for one, I always have a bag I am wearing or else I shove the things I buy into my pockets and the machines hate that). Absolutely just refuse to use the machine. They will accommodate you. If enough people do it then they will get rid of them.