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Originally Posted by Velvet
I never use self-check out. If that is all that is offered I walk out. Stores that will only offer self-checkout will get me to shop on line. Save me the gas, the parking, the time etc etc. No customer service is going to end up with no customers to serve.
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I can understand that, and at first found (sometime still do) those self-checkouts infuriating, particularly is one of them decides to have an electronic nervous breakdown in the middle of my checking out. Has happened once or twice.
But realistically, though I prefer the shopping atmosphere at places like Publix, the fact remains that you’re paying a premium there for that atmosphere for products that may be of somewhat better quality, are not overall THAT much better. Case in point: a can of ready-to-eat Campbell’s soup, which as of last week anyway was selling at Publix for $3.35 a can, could be purchased at WallyWorld for $2.27 per can. That is almost a dollar savings per can, and if we’re stocking up on things like that it doesn’t take too many trips to those electronic teller stores to result in real savings.