Only about one-third of surveyed retailers plan to invest in self-checkout technology this year, significantly fewer than in 2025, according to an annual retail industry report. While...
I tried it twice at IKEA and it’s so fucking shit and they still need to have people there to assist when you have a problem, IT’S THE SAME FUCKING THING JUST SLOWER.
They’re not there to assist you. They are there to monitor you so you wouldn’t steal more € than the self-checkout is cheaper than the staff it replaces.
In one of my local supermarkets there were 4 normal checkouts but never more than 2 of them were open because they’re understaffed. They recently replaced 1 of them by 4 self checkout machines, it’s soooo much faster now and lines are a lot shorter when it’s shopping rush hour!
No shit. Those people with almost full shopping carts that go to the self checkout, check their items, put them on the loading shelf, pay and then, and only then, put the items in bags one-at-a-time.
Like, jesus christ, you can put the bags down FIRST and then put the items INSIDE THE BAG as ONE step.
Some places make this stupidly difficult. Probably not an issue with plastic bags (but it might be, because of the stupid AI monitoring they all use now), but definitely an issue with boxes.
Aldi, at least when mine had them, you could put the empty boxes in the checkout area before starting and it would tare the scale. But only if you did it before starting the order. And they couldn’t even accept their own gift cards at self checkout.
Costco, of all places, has no way of meaningfully using self checkout with more than a few items. You can’t tare the scale at all.
I tried it twice at IKEA and it’s so fucking shit and they still need to have people there to assist when you have a problem, IT’S THE SAME FUCKING THING JUST SLOWER.
They’re not there to assist you. They are there to monitor you so you wouldn’t steal more € than the self-checkout is cheaper than the staff it replaces.
In one of my local supermarkets there were 4 normal checkouts but never more than 2 of them were open because they’re understaffed. They recently replaced 1 of them by 4 self checkout machines, it’s soooo much faster now and lines are a lot shorter when it’s shopping rush hour!
No shit. Those people with almost full shopping carts that go to the self checkout, check their items, put them on the loading shelf, pay and then, and only then, put the items in bags one-at-a-time.
Like, jesus christ, you can put the bags down FIRST and then put the items INSIDE THE BAG as ONE step.
How did humanity get to this point.
Some places make this stupidly difficult. Probably not an issue with plastic bags (but it might be, because of the stupid AI monitoring they all use now), but definitely an issue with boxes.
Aldi, at least when mine had them, you could put the empty boxes in the checkout area before starting and it would tare the scale. But only if you did it before starting the order. And they couldn’t even accept their own gift cards at self checkout.
Costco, of all places, has no way of meaningfully using self checkout with more than a few items. You can’t tare the scale at all.
Plastic bags cause problems, too. I’ve had this problem in several shops, I just don’t bother anymore.