[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Villagesgal

Stores are losing money with self checkout. They make it too easy to just steal items without ringing them up. I see it happen all the time when I'm forced to use self checkout because there's only 1 checker and the line is 10+ deep. Especially here in the Villages there are plenty of seniors who could use a good part time job as a grocery checker, so no excuse saying there is no one to fill those jobs.

Most have security team (especially Walmarts) watching every move for up above with hidden cameras recording everywhere. Also some have security alarms the door will alarm if item wasn’t scanned.

[shut the front door]

That whole OP has been circulating on the internet for years. I guess the author gets all haughty when Sam's, BJ's, Costco.... check their receipt, too.
I will take self service checkout any chance I get. I'd rather do it myself than wait behind some geezer who still writes checks at the cashier or doesn't know how to operate the credit card machine. I've wasted a lot of time over the years waiting behind people who are oblivious to the crowd waiting behind them.

[kkingston57]

Originally Posted by pauld315

Unfortunately, it seems as though young people have no desire to fill these types of jobs. Add into that the fact that mimimum wages were forced to be raised here in Florida, companies have countered with alternative ways to continue without employing as many workers as before.

And with more and more self check out, bet there is more un-paid for merchandise going out the door and a good % of those items are items that the customer un purposely failed to scan. With lowered birth rates there are less and less young people available for low paying jobs. Try to avoid self check out as I do not want to get arrested or alleged to be a shop lifter if I MISTAKENLY do not scan an item.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by kkingston57

And with more and more self check out, bet there is more un-paid for merchandise going out the door and a good % of those items are items that the customer un purposely failed to scan. With lowered birth rates there are less and less young people available for low paying jobs. Try to avoid self check out as I do not want to get arrested or alleged to be a shop lifter if I MISTAKENLY do not scan an item.

Usually alarms go off and just stop and wait for someone to check out you receipt. If they find something and nits. Or glitz you just go back and pay for it. Now if you run out the door naturally you’re shoplifter.

[Taltarzac725]

I try to use the real people at grocery stores and the like as much as possible. If I only have a few items I will sometimes use the self check-out just because it is easier to get all the items through.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Cashiers down here are SLOW as molasses. They were quick up north, "a sense of urgency" was an actual job requirement. I've been a supermarket cashier in three different states, I've been a supermarket customer in six states plus Canada. Florida, so far, is the absolute worst. The ******* even at Publix aren't taught to bag correctly; their big bagging employee video is more about cross contamination. They aren't taught to "square" or "frame" the bag, so you end up with bags tipping over, contents toppling out of bags, and often twice as many bags as the customer needs. Eggs and bread and two 2-pack mini catfood serving packages? Three bags! Or - put the eggs on the bottom. Put the bread on top of the eggs, and the cat food on top of the bread. Just one bag, weighing less than two pounds. Did you know you can fill a plastic grocery bag with up to four 2-litre bottles and they won't tip over or break the bag? Stronger-looking customers should be trusted to carry that. But instead, they're told one bottle per bag, standing up. So of course when you go to open one of them when you get home, you make sure to do it over the sink because they all inevitably fall over in the car and create a fizz-bomb.

I usually give the ****** a break when I shop anywhere they don't have self-service, because they don't know how to bag correctly. I use the self check-out everywhere else.

[patfla06]

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....!!!

EXACTLY!!
I get no discount for doing the work you should be doing!!

[tophcfa]

Went to CVS the other day and brought my basket of stuff to the checkout area. There were three employees standing there as I waited at a cash register, but nobody helped me. I asked if someone there could ring up my stuff and was told I had to use the self checkout. I informed them that I didn’t want to self checkout and repeated that I would appreciate one of them ringing me up at a register. They responded again that I had to self check out and they could help me if necessary. I tossed my basket of stuff by a cash register and told them their help at the self checkout wouldn’t be necessary as I walked out the door. CVS’s loss, if the want my business someone can ring me up at a cash register, otherwise I’ll order the stuff on Amazon.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Cashiers down here are SLOW as molasses. They were quick up north, "a sense of urgency" was an actual job requirement. I've been a supermarket cashier in three different states, I've been a supermarket customer in six states plus Canada. Florida, so far, is the absolute worst. The ******* even at Publix aren't taught to bag correctly; their big bagging employee video is more about cross contamination. They aren't taught to "square" or "frame" the bag, so you end up with bags tipping over, contents toppling out of bags, and often twice as many bags as the customer needs. Eggs and bread and two 2-pack mini catfood serving packages? Three bags! Or - put the eggs on the bottom. Put the bread on top of the eggs, and the cat food on top of the bread. Just one bag, weighing less than two pounds. Did you know you can fill a plastic grocery bag with up to four 2-litre bottles and they won't tip over or break the bag? Stronger-looking customers should be trusted to carry that. But instead, they're told one bottle per bag, standing up. So of course when you go to open one of them when you get home, you make sure to do it over the sink because they all inevitably fall over in the car and create a fizz-bomb.

I usually give the ****** a break when I shop anywhere they don't have self-service, because they don't know how to bag correctly. I use the self check-out everywhere else.

I have had poor ******* as well as good ones at some Publixes here in the Villages as well as those in Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor, and Oldsmar, FL.

Sometimes I have to do it myself again after I get back to my car or golf cart.

[shaw8700@outlook.com]

[QUOTE=Mamalea;2249198]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

That want to work or need to. People don’t need to work if given everything, ie by their parents.

Or the government.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Remember driving with my uncle when i was a little kid. Had to pay a toll on the parkway near him…10cent tolls. Of course they had the lanes with baskets to throw yoir dime in. He said to me…i always go to the toll collecter…u do t want them to lose their jobs!

Fast forward now….no toll collectors anywhere..all electronic tolling.

Times and technology change. We cant save low level jobs.

Plus charge transaction fee on top of toll, so guess the automated system costs more than manual labor collecting tolls. After 10 years IMO the tolls should come off, but once start money making schemes it hard to stop them. Don’t say maintenance cause that why we pay 25 cents plus on gallon of gas.

[Michael G.]

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

[mntlblok]

[QUOTE=Stu from NYC;2248713]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

Your right but this is mainly the fault of our educational system where these skills are not taught

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.

[mntlblok]

Originally Posted by mikeycereal

Ah the self checkout. Keeps me quick and nimble. Want to retain the skills from my old grocery working days back in the 80s. You never know when you need that skill. The bag person went on break? I'll save you, Miss.

In my early 20's I would pull out the large folded paper bag with one hand, snap it, toss it in the air with a half spin and it would drop into the other open bag. Spin the stapler in my hand like a 6-shooter. Kids would look at their moms. Did you see that? Plastic later took the fun away.

Self checkouts don't trigger me, especially when I don't have a full cart. In and out quickly; I'll go straight to the smaller or non existent line.

Wow. I defer to your superior skills!

[Jima72]

Publix can afford hiring cashiers with the prices they charge.