If you have the option, do you use the cashier or the self checkout line at the grocery store? What about other types if store like hardware stores?
No, i just put things in my pocket and leave. Don’t see any reason to use the cashier
Depends on what I’m getting. Small stuff, maybe 8 items, no produce codes? Self checkout mostly. Alcohol or anything else that requires a cashier step in to approve it? Original recipe.
Generally at most stores, no.
However, I do most of my grocery shopping at Wegmans. When I’m there, unless I’m just picking up a couple things, I use the cashier lanes. While there is some variation in skill level, they tend to be much better than most cashiers in other stores.
Of course I use cashier. I have like 40-50 items when I go grocery shopping and a lot of them have codes. They dont pay me enough to do all that work. Maybe if I have like 3 things and the lines are long I’ll go through self checkout but that’s the only time
I don’t have time to skim the whole thread so I’ll just say it. I go to the cashier because I like the conveyor belt.
Of course i use the cashier. First, because I’m there to shop, not to work. Second, because I support the cashiers job. Third, I simply don’t like the robo checkouts.
And no, I’m definitely not “anti technology”, like some people wondered. I f-ing develop computer chips and have been into Linux since kernel 0.97, so i’m definitely inside of tech.
If I have to go into the store, I’m probably not in a good mood so I use the self checkout.
Still feel bad about snapping at the poor lady who had to ask for my ID for cough medicine while I was sick as a dog…
Edit: I buy my groceries once a week thru the pickup service. I don’t have to get out, I don’t buy extra stuff. Easy peasy.
I worked as a cashier at a grocery store for several years, I generally refuse to self checkout. It seems it as a shifting of responsibility from the store to the shopper to ensure that everything is calculated correctly.
They used to pay and train people to do this, now they’ve decided that their shoppers can do it and if something goes wrong then they get to decide that you were stealing.
Yep. I don’t go to the store to work. Fuck that.
Y’all know this is just yet more transfer of wealth right?
Edit: Allow me to go further. You have heard of trickle down economics? Supporters say if you let billionaires keep more money, they will create jobs and the money trickles back down
Checkouts where you scan your own purchases is the perfect counter example. They charge the same, AND steal your productivity.
Well la dee da, Mr. Moneybags here still buys groceries. 🧐
Just barely, groceries are absurdly expensive right now. I am at a high cost of living region (NE USA), but seems bad everywhere. I started getting produce from a CSA from a local farm, turned out to be a good value so far.
This is the way. Local and fair trade as much as possible. For everything.
Yes. Fuck ringing up my own groceries. I am not an employee and I do not labor for the grocery store. If I am forced to ring out my own groceries and do that labor, I will be getting paid via shoplifting an item as I check out.
I try to use cashier aisles whenever possible. In every type of store. Partly because I want to be contributing in a tiny way to someone being employed, and partly because of bad experiences in the past with self-checkout systems.
If I’m not in a rush (and no line) and no cashier is open I always ask the bored (usually elderly) person for help
Fuck it, they’re bored and I know the machines have cameras that track how much that person is needed. If no one asks them for help, they stop having a job.
This is kind of the way I look at leaving carts out; everyone has this righteous outlook on putting your cart away as it’s judge of character. Obviously you haven’t worked in retail before; I would jump to oh you need help taking this outside? Or, hey there’s some carts out there can I go get them. Because you know what, standing in a square (register) all day long is like prison.
I don’t get the logic here. You can still say “hey there’s some carts out there can I go get them” when the carts are neatly in the corral. There’s no advantage to just leaving them wherever.
Where I shop there’s only two in the center parking and you may as well take it all the way back into the store if you’re not in the main parking area. I mean I’m not saying I don’t put a cart away if the corral is nearby but I mean I’m not going to take 5 minutes to put a cart away. Also those magnetic wheel locks, nothing I can do about that, it’s anchored to where it locks.
I also had some bad experiences with the self checkout. I rather spend a bit more time going through the cashier line then the self checkout if I can get a better experience. I do find the self checkout at hardware stores with those scan guns to work well most of the time.
I usually have a full cart and value someone else keeping track of what’s been scanned already
Only if I have bought a lot of stuff. I’ve used self checkouts wherever possible for what feels like 15+ years
If there are long lines at the cashiers or I only have a few items, I’m using self-checkout.
