Goodbye retail workers!

[Skjellyfetti]

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[YoUDeeMan]

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But Chizzy wants the workers to earn $15 per hour!

This is unfair! Seattle is supposed to support workers!

[Gil Dobie]

This technology has been in the works for over 10 years. Glad to see it's finally getting perfected enough to go live. Will it be cost efficient for the small business, is my only question.

[andy7171]

Local talk radio addressed $15/hr minimum. The natives were shocked to learn that once they make $15/ they are above the food stamp income.

[Vidav]

I am excited for this to take off. Anything that reduces the number of people I have to speak to each day is great.

[clenz]

I am excited for this to take off. Anything that reduces the number of people I have to speak to each day is great.

Okay, Phillip DeFranco....

[Vidav]

I am excited for this to take off. Anything that reduces the number of people I have to speak to each day is great.

Okay, Phillip DeFranco....

Yes he said it but I fully agree. Just yesterday I was complaining to my wife about our local grocery store removing their self checkout lanes.

[SDHornet]

Okay, Phillip DeFranco....

Yes he said it but I fully agree. Just yesterday I was complaining to my wife about our local grocery store removing their self checkout lanes.

Self checkout lanes are pointless if you are not seeing a savings (you're not btw). I only use them if there is a line and I have more then a couple items. I never use them at places like Home Depot and big box retailers.

To this Amazon idea...now if Costco can get on the ball and get this going...

[Vidav]

Yes he said it but I fully agree. Just yesterday I was complaining to my wife about our local grocery store removing their self checkout lanes.

Self checkout lanes are pointless if you are not seeing a savings (you're not btw). I only use them if there is a line and I have more then a couple items. I never use them at places like Home Depot and big box retailers.

To this Amazon idea...now if Costco can get on the ball and get this going...

I can get myself through the self checkout faster than going through a regular line. Plus I don't have to talk to anyone.

[SDHornet]

Self checkout lanes are pointless if you are not seeing a savings (you're not btw). I only use them if there is a line and I have more then a couple items. I never use them at places like Home Depot and big box retailers.

To this Amazon idea...now if Costco can get on the ball and get this going...

I can get myself through the self checkout faster than going through a regular line. Plus I don't have to talk to anyone.

I'd rather pay the same amount (because you save no money in self checkout) to have someone bag my shit than pay the same to bag it myself. To each his own I guess.

[bandl]

Yes he said it but I fully agree. Just yesterday I was complaining to my wife about our local grocery store removing their self checkout lanes.

Self checkout lanes are pointless if you are not seeing a savings (you're not btw). I only use them if there is a line and I have more then a couple items. I never use them at places like Home Depot and big box retailers.

To this Amazon idea...now if Costco can get on the ball and get this going...

I always use them at Home Depot. Mostly because there is usually never more than a single manned check-out line open being run by either a woman or a teenager. And don't even get me started on a female, Asian teenager working there...

[bandl]

Self checkout lanes are pointless if you are not seeing a savings (you're not btw). I only use them if there is a line and I have more then a couple items. I never use them at places like Home Depot and big box retailers.

To this Amazon idea...now if Costco can get on the ball and get this going...

I can get myself through the self checkout faster than going through a regular line. Plus I don't have to talk to anyone.

This. (FUCK YEAH, RUSSIAN!!!). I usually draw the line at about 20 items though. Anything over that and there's a pretty good chance one of those items won't scan.

[89Hen]

I can get myself through the self checkout faster than going through a regular line. Plus I don't have to talk to anyone.

This. (FUCK YEAH, RUSSIAN!!!). I usually draw the line at about 20 items though. Anything over that and there's a pretty good chance one of those items won't scan.

Fuck anyone that brings produce to the self-checkout at the grocery store.

[Chizzang]

But Chizzy wants the workers to earn $15 per hour!

This is unfair! Seattle is supposed to support workers!

Why do you attribute all of your misinformation to me..?

[bandl]

This. (FUCK YEAH, RUSSIAN!!!). I usually draw the line at about 20 items though. Anything over that and there's a pretty good chance one of those items won't scan.

Fuck anyone that brings produce to the self-checkout at the grocery store.

I don't buy produce. I leave that to the wife so we can leave half of it in the fridge to rot until her next trip.

[89Hen]

Fuck anyone that brings produce to the self-checkout at the grocery store.

I don't buy produce. I leave that to the wife so we can leave half of it in the fridge to rot until her next trip.

[GrizFanStuckInUtah]

Self checkout stations can go fuck themselves. They never fail to fail. It takes even longer than waiting in line to get the one asshole that is babysitting 10 fucked up checkout stations to fix the one I'm at. I work on computers/networking, I can follow instructions but those things are the biggest pieces of shit and never work.......not that I have an opinion or dislike for them.

[89Hen]

Self checkout stations can go fuck themselves. They never fail to fail. It takes even longer than waiting in line to get the one asshole that is babysitting 10 fucked up checkout stations to fix the one I'm at. I work on computers/networking, I can follow instructions but those things are the biggest pieces of shit and never work.......not that I have an opinion or dislike for them.

Most of the people around here are pretty educated so I rarely see this problem. Could be where you live.

[93henfan]

I buy so many things that people can apparently get high on (fuel additives, brake cleaner, spray paints, etc) that it all has to get an approval and it's pretty damn annoying.

That being said, self checkout at WalMart (pretty much the only place to shop in my town - they put everyone else out of business) is still the way to go. They have over 20 regular checkout lanes and never more than 6 are open for checkout and the lines are at least 2-3 customers deep with pretty big carts. Conversely, there are 8 self ckeckout stations and the worst line I've seen is about 5 people for eight spots. The math is obvious that self checkout is the best option.

[Vidav]

I can get myself through the self checkout faster than going through a regular line. Plus I don't have to talk to anyone.

I'd rather pay the same amount (because you save no money in self checkout) to have someone bag my shit than pay the same to bag it myself. To each his own I guess.

To be clear, like Bandl, if I have a large number of items I will go through a normal line. But if I am just grabbing a few things it's so much faster to use the self checkout.

[bandl]

The only two places where I have regularly had an sort of trouble with self check-out stations have been Home Depot and Lowe's.
The best place I've been to with self check-out is Sam's Club. Don't even have to take anything out of your cart, can just use the hand scanner. My son likes to go to Sam's club with me and then put everything in the cart in such a way that all the UPC codes are face up so he can scan them himself.

Yes, that's right, my 6-year old son has absolutely no problem using a self check-out station.

[89Hen]

That being said, self checkout at WalMart (pretty much the only place to shop in my town - they put everyone else out of business) is still the way to go.

Vidav's rule of thumb of not speaking to anyone applies even more so at Walmart.

[GrizFanStuckInUtah]

Self checkout stations can go fuck themselves. They never fail to fail. It takes even longer than waiting in line to get the one asshole that is babysitting 10 fucked up checkout stations to fix the one I'm at. I work on computers/networking, I can follow instructions but those things are the biggest pieces of shit and never work.......not that I have an opinion or dislike for them.

Most of the people around here are pretty educated so I rarely see this problem. Could be where you live.

It could be, I've even had the things mess up on the new chip card readers. I was at a grocery store the other day and used one, it decided to charge .93 of the 9.93 charge for some 2 liter bottles of soda on one charge and then I had to run it again for 9.00. I know I followed the prompts, it was just a POS. It then had to have the store login to get it working before the 9.00 would go through again.

[Vidav]

The only two places where I have regularly had an sort of trouble with self check-out stations have been Home Depot and Lowe's.
The best place I've been to with self check-out is Sam's Club. Don't even have to take anything out of your cart, can just use the hand scanner. My son likes to go to Sam's club with me and then put everything in the cart in such a way that all the UPC codes are face up so he can scan them himself.

Yes, that's right, my 6-year old son has absolutely no problem using a self check-out station.

BOOM!

[AZGrizFan]

Local talk radio addressed $15/hr minimum. The natives were shocked to learn that once they make $15/ they are above the food stamp income.

They just work less hours then. Win/Win for them.