re: People who won’t use self checkouts….

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There are certain WalMart neighborhood markets with a legit conveyer belt at the self checkout.

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The WM Neighborhood Market I go to occasionally has that, but that place pisses me off from the time I turn into the damn parking lot. For starters, it was a small lot to begin with. They then decided a year after opening to put in a shitty little gas station that takes up half the parking lot. Few people use it because it is higher on everything and the station directly across the road beats their gas prices. Then, once everything went to shite with Covid they decided to make around a third of the spots left curbside pickup. That doesn't matter to me because those spots are fair game and no employee gives enough of a shite to tell you otherwise. Making matters worse is it is a terribly designed parking lot that is hard to get into and out of.

Once inside and you get your shite there is one register with a person open that has a line, and about a twenty deep line of people at the self-checkouts. Despite having on average 6-8 useless fricks standing around up front at any given time, they will never, ever open one of the three other person-operated registers they have available.

Then, we can talk about the Mad Max level of clientele shopping their on a given day and it feels like you've done battle when you finally get your shite back to your car.

I have left that shithole, driven across town, got the same shite at Publix, paid a cashier, loaded it, and gotten back on the road in less time than I probably would have spent standing in line. That included a kid that at least acted like he gave a shite asking me if I was ready to check out as I was passing his register.