Self Scan Checkouts/Technological Advance/Spawn of the Devil

[CovenantJr]

I've had the same frustrations as Cag with self-checkout and bringing my own bags. A clerk at one store told me baldly that if I was going to bring my own bags, I couldn't use the self-checkout.

Really? The self-checkouts in my local supermarket actively encourage us to bring our own bags.

On slowness: I get annoyed with clerks who are over-helpful. Maybe it was a slow day and she was bored or something, but I remember at one grocery store, I was ringing up some produce when the clerk came over and nearly knocked me out of the way to punch in the correct code for me. There's being helpful and then there's insulting the intelligence of your clientele.

Oh yes! There's one particular self-checkout supervisor person who always jumps in with information about where to locate onions/oranges/peppers/whatever in the checkout menu before I've even started looking. To make matters worse, he's been wrong at least twice. On one occasion, I inputted something and he came over, undid it and 'corrected' it...only to realise I'd been right originally and undo his 'correction'. At no point did he apologise for wasting my time and insulting me.

[duchess of malfi]

I don't use them.
I try to use registers with cashiers.
Why?
Because I'm NOT getting a discount for lowering their operational costs.
f#ck-em.

In this time of unendurably high unemployment rates in my state/area I refuse to use them. Damn things take away jobs from living breathing humans. Screw 'em.

[Orlion]

I've had the same frustrations as Cag with self-checkout and bringing my own bags. A clerk at one store told me baldly that if I was going to bring my own bags, I couldn't use the self-checkout.

Really? The self-checkouts in my local supermarket actively encourage us to bring our own bags.

On slowness: I get annoyed with clerks who are over-helpful. Maybe it was a slow day and she was bored or something, but I remember at one grocery store, I was ringing up some produce when the clerk came over and nearly knocked me out of the way to punch in the correct code for me. There's being helpful and then there's insulting the intelligence of your clientele.

Oh yes! There's one particular self-checkout supervisor person who always jumps in with information about where to locate onions/oranges/peppers/whatever in the checkout menu before I've even started looking. To make matters worse, he's been wrong at least twice. On one occasion, I inputted something and he came over, undid it and 'corrected' it...only to realise I'd been right originally and undo his 'correction'. At no point did he apologise for wasting my time and insulting me.

Yeah, the supervisor of the self-checkouts where I shop is a helpful, hot woman....come to think of it, why don't I mess up on my check-out on purpose?

[aliantha]

CovJr, to be fair, the incident with the clerk who told me I couldn't use reusable bags in the self-checkout lane was quite awhile ago -- and if I remember correctly, there may have been a bit of a language barrier, too....

Fist, if your loose cart dents my car, you and I are gonna have words.

[Dread Poet Jethro]

Self-checkout user
Who always brings his own bag
And knows produce codes

Machine flatters me
Always has the clerk card me
Do I look that young?

[Fist and Faith]

Fist, if your loose cart dents my car, you and I are gonna have words.

Bring it on!

[hue of fuzzpaws]

I dont know if I'm a helpful, hot self scan checkout superviser?

Certaintly helpful

[wayfriend]

I don't use them.
I try to use registers with cashiers.
Why?
Because I'm NOT getting a discount for lowering their operational costs.
f#ck-em.

I'm this one, too! Thanks for saying it so eloquently, HLT.

I've been known to use them. But more often than not you end up getting stuck and waiting for a manager and taking longer instead of less time. So I use a human if possible.

I've also been known to say f#ck-em and leave my jammed up self-serve to rot with my sale half done, and move to a regular line.

This is like annoying phone menus. Now they do them better by hiding any way to talk to a person.

We're stuck with it even if we don't like it.

And I bet they'll be hiding the real cashiers soon, too.

[stonemaybe]

I don't go near them. Humans work better.

[Menolly]

I don't use them.
I try to use registers with cashiers.
Why?
Because I'm NOT getting a discount for lowering their operational costs.
f#ck-em.

Seriously. But I don't have any choice but to pump my own gas.

Having stayed at lorin's for the last Xar-fest, it is my understanding it is not only the law to have your gas pumped by an employee of the gas station in Jersey, but cheaper as well? Cross the state line, Fist! Win-win, nu?

As far as self-checkouts go, I use them whenever I see them and there is no wait. If there are others using them, I'll wait for a cashier before waiting for someone to "learn" how to use them.