[Jima72]

So could you be bothered to ask to speak to the manager. You do know the employees could care less if you leave and not come back.

[manaboutown]

I like to have my groceries checked out but I prefer to bag my own groceries to assure it is done correctly. I worked at grocery stores from age 14 - 16 bagging groceries and actually still enjoy the process. I realize grocery stores receive tax incentives for hiring mentally challenged people to do that job nowadays and I am happy they are employed but I do want my groceries properly bagged.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by westernrider75

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!

Agree. Great system. Wish Costco would get scan and go.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/pers...b3b52e72&ei=54

It's not rocket science. When you scan an item, the machine makes a "beep" and the scanned item charge shows up on the screen. It's not difficult to see if your item was charged correctly. I will continue to use the self checkouts. I prefer them when I don't have a lot of items.

[Randall55]

Originally Posted by coffeebean

It's not rocket science. When you scan an item, the machine makes a "beep" and the scanned item charge shows up on the screen. It's not difficult to see if your item was charged correctly. I will continue to use the self checkouts. I prefer them when I don't have a lot of items.

Except when you keep scanning an item over and over and there is no beep, or you have vision problems and can't see the screen, or you are overcharged on an item, or you scan an item and when you start placing it in the bag the register charges you again, or you have to use the scale and the register charges you an obscene amount, or you don't know the code for a product and it is not on the screen, or the credit card is not accepted, or the register will not take one of your bills. And, thoughout this process, the attendant has no interest in helping you. Easy to see why people hate self checkouts or just place some items in the bag and leave without paying for them.

[margaretmattson]

Originally Posted by Randall55

Except when you keep scanning an item over and over and there is no beep, or you have vision problems and can't see the screen, or you are overcharged on an item, or you scan an item and when you start placing it in the bag the register charges you again, or you have to use the scale and the register charges you an obscene amount, or you don't know the code for a product and it is not on the screen, or the credit card is not accepted, or the register will not take one of your bills. And, though this process, the attendant has no interest in helping you. Easy to see why people hate self checkouts or just place some items in the bag and leave without paying for them.

Sometimes I get through self-checkout without a problem. Other times, it is a headache! Seems when something goes wrong, you cannot find an employee to help.

[Kelevision]

I use them all the time at Publix and have never been stopped to show my receipt. I’ve never seen a person checking at the door.

[MrFlorida]

Sam's self check out works , until you want to buy beer or wine..... then it all comes to a screeching halt.....

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by MrFlorida

Sam's self check out works , until you want to buy beer or wine..... then it all comes to a screeching halt.....

Have you tried it? What happens?

[MrFlorida]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Have you tried it? What happens?

Yes, many times....you have to go and look for a cashier that's not busy to come and approve your age... and that's not fun....

[Jima72]

What I find annoying is the store not keeping the price on the shelf accurate. So I just let my mind goof up and ring white onions as yellow onions and save the money. Yes it is stealing but they can spend some money and put cashiers back on the job. Actually the last time I used a real person cashier they stole my card information and charged hair straightener and other ethnic beauty products from a online california company. Vystar handled it eventually and told me it happens a lot at that particular walmart. That is my motivation for my petty slipups.

[Jima72]

Originally Posted by coffeebean

Agree. Great system. Wish Costco would get scan and go.

Can’t complain about costco at all. Never takes me more than a minute or two for them to ring me up. Of course I have all the upc bars up so they can scan without moving anything.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by mntlblok

Now that's a tough one. I'd have a pretty hard time designing a system that could *prevent* a capable human from learning addition and subtraction while still spending six or so hours a day, nine months out of the year, for several years, holed up in those classrooms.

It's always seemed to me that education isn't something that is done "to" you. Pretty sure there has to be some active effort on the part of the student. And, percentage-wise the knowledge that I have that came from a school is minute. Either you're curious enough to learn stuff or you ain't.

Rote learning isn't much fun, and most won't do it without practically having a gun to their head (or be self motivated). I can't be convinced that there's another way (besides rote). I recall noticing that the 4th-6th grade grammar books all looked almost identical, and I'm *certain* that they all had that same table of subjective and objective pronouns and where each should be used. Seriously boring stuff that we were *all* subjected to repeatedly. If you didn't learn it - and it seems to me that an amazingly large percentage of Americans didn't - I can't see how you put that on "the system" - unless you count the inability to enforce discipline or otherwise demand compliance.

Seems to me that "good schools" and "good teachers" equate to having the luxury of having "good students". Big nature over nurture guy here. . .

I shop little enough that I kind of get a kick out of the "self check-out" thing - *especially* now that I can nearly always use that little beeping gun - and especially now that I no longer seem to have to pause for that couple of seconds before consecutively beeping multiple, identical items. I *am* easily entertained. BTW, it's been over 50 years now since I was one of the fastest bagboys in the country. These little plastic bags are *so* tricky, though!

As to the patting down to get out the door, the apparent questioning of my integrity most definitely does still irk me, but weighed against waiting in lines, I've resigned myself to it being the lesser of two evils. Plus, it gives me a chance to test my skills at getting a giggle out of the "patter-downer". Seldom fail. :-)

Have never been a fan of paying folks to dig holes and then fill them back up, but I also don't understand how civilization works, even as well as it does - nor how we've gotten this far without much bigger problems manifesting over the use of nuclear weapons.

Last I heard, neither New Jersey nor Oregon would allow self-pumping of gasoline. Bad info? I'll de derned. Timely. New Jersey is the last state in America where drivers can't pump gas | CNN Business.

I don't remember "grammar books" in grades 4-6. I remember reading books in earlier levels, stuff like Fun with Dick and Jane and similar. I distinctly remember our class reading The Hobbit in 6th grade, and I didn't learn how to diagram a sentence until high school. By then, though, I was already reading on a college level. After a disastrous First Grade reading class, I aced every writing and literature class through college graduation.

What gets me is that even most adult cashiers don't know how to "count up". I can't blame "the younger generation" because most of the cashiers at Publix are older than I am. If the total comes to $37.42 and you give them two twenties, three singles, 2 pennies, a dime and a nickel, they just give you a blank stare. Cashiers: it means the customer wants a $5 bill. And three quarters. It's not rocket science. It's called "counting up."

It's $37.42
You give them 43.17.

Subtract 17 from 42. That leaves you with 25. So now you count up. From 25 to 50, 75, $1.00 = 3 quarters to make the $43, and remove all the digits on the right side of the decimal. That means you need 5 more dollars to bring the $37 to $42 (because you already counted up one of those dollars, so subtract that dollar from the $43).

So the total change the customer gets is $5.75, in the form of one $5 bill and 3 quarters.

These days they call it "Common Core Math" that parents of kids in the 2010's all went insane and blew their collective gaskets over. But it really is very simple. It's just counting, nothing more or less.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by MrFlorida

Yes, many times....you have to go and look for a cashier that's not busy to come and approve your age... and that's not fun....

Look for a cashier to come and approve? Why not just walk up to one?

Odd that the scan and go isn't working for you the way it is described on the website. I'll have to try it sometime.

Oh wait! You are using the self checkout line and not the scan and go app. Yeah, I can see where that could be a problem. But I don't think that is unique to Sam's. I imagine alcohol requires an id check at any self checkout line.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Look for a cashier to come and approve? Why not just walk up to one?

Odd that the scan and go isn't working for you the way it is described on the website. I'll have to try it sometime.

If you try to scan alcohol, the register will stop you and not let you go any further until an associate puts in their numbers to indicate that they've verified your age on your ID. It usually causes the "help" light over the register to start flashing to alert the associates that your register requires something from them.