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If I only have a few items and they are all things with easy-to-find barcodes, self-checkout is easier. It's a good replacement for the "10/15 items or less" lane imo. If I have a lot of items or things that don't have barcodes or have wrinkled barcodes or whatever, self-checkout is a nightmare. The machines don't work, sometimes randomly cancel the whole transaction, yell at me because my items aren't in the bagging area even though I ran out of space, won't read the barcode, expect me to know what kind of fruit or vegetable I am buying (look, machine, I picked up an apple, i don't effing know what KIND of apple it is, that's not my job), etc. I HATE how stores often have only two or three real lanes open now at busy times and even fewer at slow times.
I absolutely loathed the self-checkout at the Tescos in London - for the life of me I could never figure out how to buy the shopping bags, the helpers wouldn't show me how, they just bitched at me about how I wasn't buying the plastic bag. I would happily buy the plastic bag if somebody showed me what button to push! There weren't ever real people lanes open at all - only self-checkout. And of course I was on vacation so wasn't just toting a reusable bag around sightseeing.
We used to do most of our shopping in person but as more stores switch to self-checkout, we increasingly shop online - all from Amazon. Target is losing about $200-250/week in business from us due to switching to primarily self-checkout.
I absolutely loathed the self-checkout at the Tescos in London - for the life of me I could never figure out how to buy the shopping bags, the helpers wouldn't show me how, they just bitched at me about how I wasn't buying the plastic bag. I would happily buy the plastic bag if somebody showed me what button to push! There weren't ever real people lanes open at all - only self-checkout. And of course I was on vacation so wasn't just toting a reusable bag around sightseeing.
We used to do most of our shopping in person but as more stores switch to self-checkout, we increasingly shop online - all from Amazon. Target is losing about $200-250/week in business from us due to switching to primarily self-checkout.
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