lenaitch
Senior Member
It's become a throwaway term. It seems society must accommodate all of our personal choices without question.They didn't have access to purchase something. No rights were lost.
It's become a throwaway term. It seems society must accommodate all of our personal choices without question.They didn't have access to purchase something. No rights were lost.
They didn't have access to purchase something. No rights were lost.
Don't get me started. Every time I make a dash for the checkout with the shortest line, I get screwed by the old fart in front of me who inevitably takes out their wallet/purse and starts digging and assessing and counting out the cash/coins in the most glacial manner possible, causing me to fume inside. That's kind of why I like self-checkouts - a lot of people seem to have an aversion to using them, so there's often no wait time. Anything to avoid the torture of the blue hairs...Personally, as a cashier, I don't object to people paying with cash, but there are certain cash behaviours I find irritating, like paying for larger amounts in small coins (takes forever to count) (bonus points if they come to the self check out and want to do this) or people who find more change after I've already keyed the total in and want to give it to me. I find this to be horribly irksome, math has never been my strong suit and having to reconcile whatever the computer says I owe the customer in change is a huge pet peeve.
Part of my job involves feeding all the tills into a money counting machine after we close up, and the way many people behave towards cash drives me insane. Making origami out of dollar bills is a very common thing people do, and on average, at least once a week it causes a problem with the machine, and at least once a month it causes the whole machine to seize up because the creases got caught on something they shouldn';t have, and we have to find where in the machine the bill got stuck. I don't know what's wrong with everybody, like buying a wallet and keeping your bills crisp and straightened out is such an imposition.
I like the self-checkouts when I have a single item or maybe up to three, though some of them have way too many steps to go through. "Do you need any bags?" next screen "Do you have our rewards card?" next screen "how would you like to pay" [internal screaming] "would you like a printed receipt?" [sigh].Don't get me started. Every time I make a dash for the checkout with the shortest line, I get screwed by the old fart in front of me who inevitably takes out their wallet/purse and starts digging and assessing and counting out the cash/coins in the most glacial manner possible, causing me to fume inside. That's kind of why I like self-checkouts - a lot of people seem to have an aversion to using them, so there's often no wait time. Anything to avoid the torture of the blue hairs...
Don't get me started. Every time I make a dash for the checkout with the shortest line, I get screwed by the old fart in front of me who inevitably takes out their wallet/purse and starts digging and assessing and counting out the cash/coins in the most glacial manner possible, causing me to fume inside. That's kind of why I like self-checkouts - a lot of people seem to have an aversion to using them, so there's often no wait time. Anything to avoid the torture of the blue hairs...
I am also worried about these in the future where stores will do something stupid like make you watch a 10 second advertisement before processing your payment.
Home Depot ostensibly has self check outs where you can take cash. There isn't a slot you feed it into, you just give it to the cashier and they open the register like any other register.Metro and most (but not all) Dollaramas are the only places I've seen that have self-checkouts accepting cash.
A Walmart in Ottawa has staff scanning the items for you at the self-checkouts to cut down on the theft. lol
I would really love some Walmart staffer to stop me and ask me to show a receipt for my goods. I would say 'no thank you' and await their next step. Most of the logical 'next steps' would be Charter violations.Or worse yet, doing receipt checks before exiting like Costco. Just what we need, more line ups. Some Loblaws stores are doing it, because theft is so high with self checkouts. I've witnessed people put items in their bags without scanning, the alarms at Walmart go off so often, the kid working the self check out doesn't even seem to care. What can they do? It's not their job to stop shoplifters. I was in the US recently, the grocery store i was in, had the pharmacy and cosmetic departments fenced off by a chain link fence, from the rest of the store with a cashier at the exit. You have to pay for the items there. I can see grocery stores doing that here eventually.
A Walmart in Ottawa has staff scanning the items for you at the self-checkouts to cut down on the theft. lol
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I always prefer self-checkouts because there's almost never a line-up, and I don't understand the aversion to them I've heard some express.... I like self-checkouts - a lot of people seem to have an aversion to using them, so there's often no wait time...
That seems to defeat the purpose of having self-checkouts, which I would assume to be requiring only one employee watching over several of them.... A Walmart in Ottawa has staff scanning the items for you at the self-checkouts to cut down on the theft. lol ...