re: How do y'all feel about self check outs?

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thought this was going to be about suicide

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Are your coworkers 90 years old?

Thing I love about Wal Mart is you can scan all your items while you are shopping and than all you have to do is bag them when you get up there
It's actually kind of nice

I think you should have to pass a competency test before you can use one.

At first they were great because only folks with a few items and were in a hurry had the courage to try them out.

Now, mouth breathing slapdicks are fumbling around for 10 minutes trying to ring up 40 items.

It's one of many sources of my hatred of the great unwashed.

It's BS about killing jobs and payroll taxes, at least here. There are 2 workers for every 6 self-checkouts here. That makes 8 people working.
Do you think Wal Mart would have 8 regular check outs open? Hell no they wouldn't. So there are more people working than if they weren't there.

Plus, I value my and my family's time. I'll scan my 2 or 3 items, and get out, while you wait in the lines of 2 open checkouts, each with 6 or 7 people ahead of you with full baskets. Have fun spending 30 or 45 minutes in line.

I don't find they save any time at all unless there are just a few people in the lines or at the kiosks.

I prefer not having to fumble around checking myself out or waiting on the people who have carts full and are moving at a glacial pace.

I actually thought about this yesterday how I pass up a walmart and go to a different grocery store just because the checkouts are always packed with people.

Beats waiting in line at the only two open registers. Have not been in a Walmart in a couple of years, but found it odd that they have like 20 registers up front and only five or fewer manned.

I hate them with the fire of a million burning suns. But I don't go to a store often enough where it is an issue (grocery - Publix for the win).

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Beats waiting in line at the only two open registers. Have not been in a Walmart in a couple of years, but found it odd that they have like 20 registers up front and only five or fewer manned.

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Target near me has 26 registers. When we went recently on a Saturday morning they had 2 open and everyone else was being funneled through self checkout.