What’s funny about this is that literally everyone will read this and think it means other people. No one thinks this way about themselves.
Holy shit, it’s just a joke, folks. Calm the fuck down.
Well, that place sure ain’t fucking Costco, that’s for damned sure.
The most oblivious people on earth gather at Costco, I swear.
We need to also test your ability to spend money. I swear people at self checkout act like they have never used a credit/debit card in there life.
I used to work at this kiosk which was inside a café. A customer wanted to pay from the inside, which can happen, but it’s rare. Since the reader was cable wired to the plug at the window, I had to bring it to where he was standing, but the cable wasn’t long enough. I pulled it out as much as I could, and waited for him to step forward and reach out with his card in his hand.
He was just standing there, waving his card at the machine from ~3-4 feet away. Like, I don’t know, at one point the card reader would go “HEY, that card is Larry! Hi, Larry, how are you doing, you old sonofabitch?”
“15 items or less” lanes should charge extra for going over. 0-20 no charge, 21+ = $1 per extra item (including the 16-20). That money goes towards whoever uses the register after you.
Yeah I hate shopping at Walmart too but Aldi doesn’t have everything I need, the Key Foods store is all the way on the other side of town and Publix is owned by a Jan 6th-er and twice as expensive.
I miss social distancing
I don’t. Not for shopping. I had to wait outside in line, in the freezing cold for an hour, when my state decided to limit the number of customers allowed in at one time. Sucked balls. That didn’t last long, fortunately.
They would go out of business immediately. Not enough customers.
I’d go daily to hopefully help keep them open.
I’ve almost never felt this, same with other comments here saying people can’t handle self checkout. Here in Sweden, at least in my city, people behave like you’d expect normal functional adults to behave. The only people who can be an annoyance are groups of kids/teenagers, and it’s very much not all of them either.
Sounds like sweden might have a higher average IQ amongst their population
Maybe they just have less lead in the water and better education.
I know the point of this thread is “ugh, people, man” and it’s not really meant to be engaged with deeper than that, but this is a really bad idea. It would be used to justify racism and ableism and would be a really unpleasant place to be in, too. Karen city, with no one to speak out about it.
Imagine that spike of anxiety at the check-out where you feel rushed because you’re at the front of the line, but instead of it being mostly in your head it’s now a real thing with real consequences. That’s my nightmare
Yeah. In fact, society is full of people who aren’t getting things 100% correct and we just have to be accepting of that. So i don’t like this post.
BUT: the fact that some people don’t get systems like this 100% all the time is proof that we should abolish car dependency and prioritise public safety precautions. [r/FuckCars]
Agreed. Fuck cars and accept that other people aren’t going to be perfect and that that’s okay for them to be.
society is full of people who aren’t getting things 100% correct
It’s fine, they will go to the usual stores.
Separate but equal, eh? Gonna introspect on that, or nah?
Someone in this thread went the extra mile and even called them “the shitty” stores. Which is nice. Brings the warm and cozies, that /s
It would be used to justify racism and ableism
But how?
People walking towards each other on the sidewalk usually subconsciously move out of each other’s ways. But there’s a hierarchy to these interactions that you’re probably only aware of if you’re at the bottom of it. White people tend to resist deferring to people of color. White women will rarely defer to anyone, expecting everyone to get it of their way. People of color will defer to white people, etc, etc.
If you break this subconscious hierarchy, people notice and assume you’re being rude or weird. Like if you move enough out of a white women’s way so that she, too, can move a little out of your way so that you both avoid each other (like equals would do), she might just walk into you. Or cuss you out for being rude. Or when I, a white man, defer to a person of color, it trips them up for a second.
Since this hypothetical grocery store is nothing but “don’t break unspoken rules about rudeness or you get kicked out” it means that a black person would need to act meek and submissive in order to avoid scrutiny and thus be able to stay. Meaning the rules would be more stringent against people of color, thus less people of color would be accepted, thus justifying their usual exclusion.
Ableism is super easy. Since this hypothetical prioritizes convenience over people, if you’re slow at something or need more accommodation, you’d get kicked out.
What a fascinating work of fiction you’ve just created. You should use it to write a really shit short story
Such a great piece of fiction that the phenomenon I just recounted has been lived by real people before
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackladies/comments/1202192/asked_reddit_why_white_people_dont_move_for/
Am… am I god?/s
Because the person in question might be an immigrant from a country where our supermarkets aren’t normal, or have a neurological disease you can’t see.
In that example it’s not racism, i think
Racism isn’t just when a person thinks their race has superior ability. It’s also when we design systems that statistically harm brown people. In my country a lot of racism is thinly veiled as dealing with illegal immigrants. We used to require that you know how to read in order to vote.
Immigrants are not always “brown”.
Nor were all illiterate people.
The Karens are part of the problem. They would 100% be in the shitty store after the first trip.
Lol, you think Karens would be kept out of Karen heaven. Lmao, even.
Why is Lemmy like this
On an Idiocracy meme in shitposts someone was talking about not supporting eugenics.
Oh my god I’m still stewing over that exact same post. It’s been like a week.
Bruh, I got autism. This person decided to create a hypothetical grocery store instead of just saying “what’s the deal with people in grocery stores? Why are they always in my way?”
You make a hypothetical system as a funny observation, I’m going to shit on the hypothetical before anyone thinks its an actually good idea. Cause people do that shit. Like a whole lot. Check the person who’s trying to defend it as a good idea for an example
Demi Adejuyigbe made a parody of racism in his stand-up special “Demi Adejuyigbe is going to do one (1) back-flip” where he said all Latina women were 6’2" and people started parroting that shit back to him with no introspection on what the fuck they were saying.
Cool, I also have autism. So does like 80% of the users on this network. Ok?
Thanks for the whacky anecdote. That and the original post are bad jokes.
“People can’t drive!”
“What’s the deal with TALL LATIN WOMEN”
They deserve zero attention and this post sucks. I am sorry you had to spend emotional energy on this instead of anything else. You are allowed to downvote and move on too. There’s too much of this garbage engagement bait to take issue with each individual “comedian” on micro blogs or comedy “specials”, or whatever. Including my dumb take comment, btw.
Anyway, eugenics bad.
Cool, I also have autism. So does like 80% of the users on this network. Ok?
Thanks for the whacky anecdote. That and the original post are bad jokes.
“People can’t drive!”
“What’s the deal with TALL LATIN WOMEN”
They deserve zero attention and this post sucks. I am sorry you had to spend emotional energy on this instead of anything else. You are allowed to downvote and move on too. There’s too much of this garbage engagement bait to take issue with each individual “comedian” on micro blogs or comedy “specials”, or whatever. Anyway, eugenics bad.
I love how wanting people to be courteous and respectful of others is racist. I just want people to realize that they’re not alone in the world, and to please move your cart to the side of the goddamn aisle.
Can you read? He’s talking about enforcing a separate system, not simply “wanting people to be courteous”
Not what I’m fucking saying, but good try. Something being used to justify racism isn’t saying “this is on its face racism” its saying “racists will use the stringent, strict rules of this place to deny people of color access to this space”. All of these complaints are things that everyone does to some extent, you just get frustrated by them when you’re probably already frustrated.
People of color take up more space in white people’s heads, so they get more policing of their behavior even if it isn’t justified. A group of white boys being loud in a grocery store get head shakes and “boys will be boys” comments. A group of black boys being loud in a grocery store get followed around by security and white women clutching their purses.
Also fun how you sidestepped the ableism I brought up in that same sentence. Cause you know there’s no fucking argument there, huh?
I thought both arguments were stupid and so I chose to not continue typing. I guess everything can be used to discriminate against someone, so fuck it, let’s do nothing! Yawn yawn yawn.
Then shut the fuck up and leave the conversation.
I appreciate your input.
Wow, false dichotomy much? I get it, you liked the idea and think me attacking it is like me attacking you. Once you grow up, you’ll realize that not everything is about you.
Sorry, I meant if you grow up.
You’re really aggressive, man
Yeah, I tend to be perceived that way. I’d rather be seen as aggressive than be a polite asshole
Not sure why you felt I attacked you, but that’s fine. We’ve obviously got different opinions on the matter, and that’s okay. If it’s because I called the argument stupid, I didn’t mean for that to be a reflection of you, it’s just the exact kind of false dichotomy you’re accusing me of here, and it’s tired and overused here and on Reddit.
Couldn’t think of a way to go out of business faster than having a competent-customers-only policy.
That + worked any amount of customer service tbh
Only if we build similar airports. I understand not everbody is a regular business traveler, but somehow the people in front of me always seem fascinated with the novel concept of flying and airport security, spending 10 minutes emptying the pockets and putting their stuff on the conveyor belt.
Fly out of smaller airports if you can afford it. That’s the differentiator, is cost. Business travelers are (anecdotally) more likely to fly out of the closest and most convenient airport, whereas your regular broke joe (that’s usually me) will absolutely make the 1-2h commute to get myself to a hub airport to save a couple hundred bucks.
People seem to get tunnel vision in the grocery store and ignore the dozens of people trying to move around them. I weave in and out of those groups of people quickly and try to mumble “asshole” just loud enough they can hear me as i walk by.
Put lines on the floor like m’roads
I remember when we did that during COVID. I wish it stuck.
I mean roadway markings. Put turn signals on the carts. It’ll just highlight the inept.
instructions unclear we are all now blind thanks to lifted shipping carts with trail lights that the grocery cops will do nothing about
Where beans? Where corn?
