Technology

I wonder how many of the people who say self-checkout is unpaid labor will also try to shame people for not returning their shopping carts.

Hate those things. Every time I go up them it seems like a quarter of them are broken so there is still a line. Also the guy babysitting the machines doesn't appreciate when I yelled at the machine "EXPECT THE ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA!". Been tempted to start randomly leaving ice cream by the machines. Oh I am sorry did the scanner get sugary syrup on it?

And now of course it is am excuse to have even less normal lines open. So the choices are dealing with crap tech or stuck behind old people with coupons.

Over here stores are increasing their prices because people steal at the self-checkout. So they reduce costs by not having cashiers but then increase prices due to theft. Quite some logic.

You'd assume it's an easy balance to make: if (saving on cashiers - loss due to theft) > 0 implement self-checkout else don't implement.

Got a dozen cans of soup. Scanned ten cans of soup. Got two pounds of bulk pine nuts ($34.99/lb). Paid for two pounds of bulk barley ($2.49/lb). Etc.

“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue" -- Gabe Newell

I donno, asking why self-checkouts haven't delivered anything is kind of like asking why your cook never mows your lawn, dontcha think?