• Taco2112@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    How’d you get a picture of my local grocery store?

    For real though, one of those cashiers would be on the self checkout helping 50 people at once and the cashier who has to actually scan stuff has 5 people in their line but all of them have enough food and goods for an army.

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      9 days ago

      I always go to the cashier.

      I hate self checkout.

      The payment flow is always way too confusing, I hate scanning and bagging…

      Please keep the cashiers.

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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        9 days ago

        same. The local self checkouts are a sensory nightmare for me. There’s blinking lights I can’t avoid, a camera+screen I can’t ignore… I just can’t deal with it.

        local home depot only has self checkout. I don’t go there any more.

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          9 days ago

          Maybe that’s it for me…

          I already hate how bright those stores are with their artificial lights.

          Plus the other shoppers are super chaotic in those lanes, and they have ill defined spaces.

        • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.ca
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          9 days ago

          I guess I’m the opposite. The sensory nightmare for me involves having to interact with strangers, and self checkout offers the utopian promise of avoiding all that. But it fails only too often, as the slightest problem brings the clerk over. It’s a bait and switch for my introverted ass.

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            8 days ago

            But that’s the thing, different people feel better in different methods, so why can’t we keep both and let each one choose? Some would even use both methods in different moments Why does things be always forced into others because “it’s the future”?

          • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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            9 days ago

            That makes sense. I was raised Southern [USA], so I can fake polite conversation with the best of them. If anything, I’m too chatty if the checkout clerk gives the slightest sign of talkativeness.

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        9 days ago

        Self checkout with app where you can put the items in your own bag or backpack as you shop, is the fucking goat

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            6 days ago

            I understand. For me it also took a couple of times to get over the shoplifting feeling 😂

    • moody@lemmings.world
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      9 days ago

      My supermarket is the opposite. The registers have a few people with like 2 items, and old grampa with 4 weeks worth of groceries is learning how to use the self checkout, and talking back to it when it says there’s an unexpected item on the scale.

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        9 days ago

        Sorry I’m with grandpa on this. Fuck your unexpected item in bagging area.

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        9 days ago

        Goddamn it, I talk to the self checkout, and I don’t have any grandchildren that I know of.