[La lamy]

I love self checkouts. I much prefer seeing every item is the price I expect. I've found errors a few times, and the person who oversees the process is able to correct the price.

[ROCKETMAN]

Aldi will never have self checkout.They run checkout very efficiently.

[westernrider75]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Sorry use self checkout whenever possible, why because no waiting, I can pack my groceries correctly. Saves time than standing in the cashier line.

But I get it can’t tell you how many try self checkout, don’t have a clue how to do it, and waste everyones time. So I am so glad most posters use a cashier.

Of course if you shop Sam’s BJs or Costco they check your basket no matter what.

I also prefer self checkouts for the reasons listed previously. But now at Sam’s I can do Scan and Go! What a time saver, I just scan the items show my phone as I walk out and I’m gone, no lines, no waiting!

[Laker14]

I was self checking at a local (in NY) Walmart and the person checking on the customers suggested I hadn't scanned my two 6-packs of soda. In fact, I had, but thanks to her distracting me, I had neglected two other items. One of the contributing factors in all of this was the lack of space for placing items already scanned, and placing items to be scanned, consequently I lost track of what items in my cart had been scanned and replaced and what had yet to be scanned.

I don't mind doing it myself. I'm slow, but I'd rather be doing it slowly and carefully than standing in a line while someone else in front of me is dawdling about, looking for the dime and two pennies so she can make exact change.

[JGibson]

Originally Posted by ROCKETMAN

Aldi will never have self checkout.They run checkout very efficiently.

Aldi, a German-based discount supermarket chain with 16 locations in Erie and Niagara counties, has been rolling out new self-checkout kiosks since 2019.0 The project has grown as new stores are opening right away with self-checkouts while old ones are slowly being updated. Some stores have more self-checkout kiosks than others, according to the Aldi Reviewer.1 Self-checkout stations started quietly rolling out in the US in 2021.

Think I will support an American company like Publix.

[ABGinVA]

Originally Posted by ROCKETMAN

Aldi will never have self checkout.They run checkout very efficiently.

My Aldi in VA installed self checkouts months ago.

[msilagy]

I love self checkout as I have the ability without trying to know the prices of the items in my cart. This is a wave of the future just like pumping your own gas and cleaning your own windows on your car. As for jobs, there are so many changes coming in the future your head would spin! I, myself, embrace the idea. Checking receipts, well I too would walk on by!

[ThirdOfFive]

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.

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.

[ehendersonjr]

All a human checkout person does is scan the merchandise, just like the customer does at the self check machine. Why pay for what you can get your customers to do for free?
The push started when people refused to work because the government was paying them not to. Retailers were forced into self-check as the alternative to customers waiting in line for humans to check them out. The complaints were already coming in about wait times. If you want to wait for a human to do a job you can easily do yourself, fine. But I’ve already been in a local store that had no human checkout lanes. If you don’t like self-check be ready to cross some retailers off your shopping list.

[JoelJohnson]

I worked for NCR in Rhode Island in the late '70s and "helped" (I had just joined the company) install one of the first self checkouts in a grocery store. At the time people said the same thing about taking jobs away. My response then (as is now) it frees up people to do other jobs that require a store person to do, like full the shelves, clean the isles, get shopping carts out of the parking lot, etc.
So, as already pointed out, you pump your own gas, go to the AMT for cash, shop online, etc.
I was a cashier "back in the day" and had rather do [I]anything[I] than that, including sorting bottles out back.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by ehendersonjr

All a human checkout person does is scan the merchandise, just like the customer does at the self check machine. Why pay for what you can get your customers to do for free?
The push started when people refused to work because the government was paying them not to. Retailers were forced into self-check as the alternative to customers waiting in line for humans to check them out. The complaints were already coming in about wait times. If you want to wait for a human to do a job you can easily do yourself, fine. But I’ve already been in a local store that had no human checkout lanes. If you don’t like self-check be ready to cross some retailers off your shopping list.

True, true and true. Plus the fact that the merchant doesn’t have to pay the self-checkout machine to stand around and do nothing if there are not a lot of customers in the store.

[Causey]

I don't like the self checkout, but I use it. Sadly, I can do a better job than the people they hire. It's a sad situation.

[dlspiess]

Daughter used to work for super store. High theft rate in self checkout. I don’t mind self checkout when I only have a few items otherwise I use a cashier. Should make them express lanes of 6 items or less and if they are worried about theft then have a separate exit so you can check their receipts

[airstreamingypsy]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Are those your own thoughts or did you find it on the internet? If the latter, you ought to give some credit to the source.

It's all over facebook......

[Wondering]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

Your Thoughts..................

To all the Supermarkets and big commercial stores that operate 'Self Check-outs'....... You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now.

Yesterday I went shopping at one such store and the lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping everyone.

I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, I had already filled my cart, emptied my cart and scanned the items, refilled my cart and so I just skipped the exit line and left.
I heard her saying "Umm - Excuse me “ as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.

You can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be.
• I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you.
• If you want me to be a cashier with no training then that's your problem not mine.
• Keep employing young people and give them job opportunities.

YOU DON'T PAY ME TO SCAN MY OWN SHOPPING.
YOU DON’T GIVE ME STAFF DISCOUNT FOR WORKING FOR YOU.

Signed ......All of us
People we need to share this statement its basically about PROFIT to the stores AND putting People out of a JOB....!!!

Too much coffee this morning? You need to get a life!!