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I'm so used to self checkout, last time I used a manned checkout I started bagging my stuff by habit. (Only used it because I bought an electronic with a secur

I'm so used to self checkout, last time I used a manned checkout I started bagging my stuff by habit. (Only used it because I bought an electronic with a security hockey puck that had to be unlocked.)

seanp2k2 3y ago
I usually help bag my stuff if there isn't someone there already to help. I really don't mind and it gets me out of the store faster + helps the next person get through faster. I don't understand the mentality of just standing there helplessly waiting for someone to come. It's really not that difficult. It feels like the same energy as folks who can't be bothered to throw away their trash at counter-service restaurants and cafes that do not actually have people whose sole responsibility it is to bus tables. Is it really putting one out that much to carry their coffee cup and napkin with them as they walk right by the trash next to the door on their way out?
kugelblitz 3y ago
In Germany you always bag everything yourself and in the discount stores you have 1.4 seconds per item to pack stuff while the cashier is sliding stuff towards an area of maybe 60cm x 100cm (2 feet by 3 feet) where if you bag it too slow you'll hold up the line and people will look at you.
- inejge 3y ago
  I usually handle this by dumping the purchases back into the cart and bagging everything someplace to the side after paying. Lidl is famous (or notorious) for its demon-speed cashiers, and they actually worked hard both to train them and to make packaging easier for the scanner to "see"[1]. I don't see them implementing self-checkout soon. [1] https://www.behance.net/gallery/114753219/LIDL-Packaging-Guideline-Barcodes https://www.behance.net/gallery/114753219/LIDL-Packaging-Gui...
  - wiredfool 3y ago
    There is self checkout in some lidl uk stores.
- itronitron 3y ago
  This is why you should pay cash, folded in half, and in awkward denominations as it can give you those few extra seconds to finish bagging while the cashier puts the bills away and gathers the change :)
  - kugelblitz 3y ago
    By now I'm quite efficient, haha. Heavy stuff in the beginning, fragile stuff at the back, from large to small (so that I bag the heavy and large stuff in the bottom and then fragile and small I squeeze in carefully). I recently heard of a tip from people who become anxious at the cashiers: Fruits and veggies at the end, because often they need to weigh it and sometime also input numbers manually, this gives those extra few seconds at the end.

seanp2k2 3y ago

I usually help bag my stuff if there isn't someone there already to help. I really don't mind and it gets me out of the store faster + helps the next person get through faster. I don't understand the mentality of just standing there helplessly waiting for someone to come. It's really not that difficult. It feels like the same energy as folks who can't be bothered to throw away their trash at counter-service restaurants and cafes that do not actually have people whose sole responsibility it is to bus tables. Is it really putting one out that much to carry their coffee cup and napkin with them as they walk right by the trash next to the door on their way out?

kugelblitz 3y ago

In Germany you always bag everything yourself and in the discount stores you have 1.4 seconds per item to pack stuff while the cashier is sliding stuff towards an area of maybe 60cm x 100cm (2 feet by 3 feet) where if you bag it too slow you'll hold up the line and people will look at you.

inejge 3y ago
I usually handle this by dumping the purchases back into the cart and bagging everything someplace to the side after paying. Lidl is famous (or notorious) for its demon-speed cashiers, and they actually worked hard both to train them and to make packaging easier for the scanner to "see"[1]. I don't see them implementing self-checkout soon. [1] https://www.behance.net/gallery/114753219/LIDL-Packaging-Guideline-Barcodes https://www.behance.net/gallery/114753219/LIDL-Packaging-Gui...
- wiredfool 3y ago
  There is self checkout in some lidl uk stores.
itronitron 3y ago
This is why you should pay cash, folded in half, and in awkward denominations as it can give you those few extra seconds to finish bagging while the cashier puts the bills away and gathers the change :)
- kugelblitz 3y ago
  By now I'm quite efficient, haha. Heavy stuff in the beginning, fragile stuff at the back, from large to small (so that I bag the heavy and large stuff in the bottom and then fragile and small I squeeze in carefully). I recently heard of a tip from people who become anxious at the cashiers: Fruits and veggies at the end, because often they need to weigh it and sometime also input numbers manually, this gives those extra few seconds at the end.