The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for March 08, 2025

Self serves you right.

Check this out.

Just take your stuff and go. What are they going to do to you? Send you to hell???

Happens quite often to me at the supermarket!!!

This is worse than the Hotel California. You CAN’T check out anytime you want!

Boy can I relate to that! The local grocery self-check !

Updated Adage: “Artificial Intelligence is The Devil’s work shopping program.”

Another self-checkout phrase that’s annoying is when the register keeps saying “Place your item in the bagging area” when I’ve already done that.

Which I will never experience because I refuse to use self-checkout. I want to see people employed.

I don’t speak Spanish but request the check-out machine speak it.

Imagine what calling customer service will be like.

I met a self service attendant from hell a couple of years ago. She had the nerve to question whether l’d paid for the bag and as l hadn’t opted for a receipt to prove l’d paid, she told me to wait so she could fetch a manager!

The bill (including the bag) was over £30.00 and it’s a store l’ve used for 20 years.

I simply turned and went down the pub.

Unbelievable!

I always have to call for help to weigh produce.

This is my CVS experience in a nutshell. Oh, and the 25% off coupon can’t be honored.

Or Walmart

Why would you need to go grocery shopping in Hell? You are already dead and don’t need to eat.

All they stock is flamin hot cheetos and red hots.

Hahahaha!

“Did you place bags in the bagging area?

In hell?

I don’t use them anymore. I go too slow or too fast, never quite in sync. I spend a lot of time waiting for “help.”

Ah, the joys of self-checkout. I avoid it as much as possible!

He’s going to hell with a handbasket.

That’s what you get for taking someone’s “bowl of rice!” [Yeah, if you get, you’ve seen Sand Pebbles!]

Still, it beats standing in line behind the shopper who insists the marked price on the shelf was less or who wants to write a personal check.

They’re rigged….no food this week…

I haven’t even got to the enter VIP shopping card yet!

that’s not hell it’s my local grocery

Hell would also be being the attendant who has to “help” thousands of customers whose self-service units were saying that.

And after you get past all that, the only payment method you have is extremely worn and crumpled one dollar bills.

Welcome to Walmart.

Not for me, the prettiest checkout girl is for me.

Like sheep to the slaughter, when I see the line-up for “self-check out”….I always go to the regular register and I pay in cash. I do not want the store to know my shopping habbits, even if it follows me on its cameras throughout the store, but at least its computers do not register that it was I who paid in cash. …and no I do not take my phone with me when I go shopping because I do not want the phone company to know my daily habbits… Yes the phone stays in the car, but I cannot avoid that, since all pay phones for emergency use are not there anymore…

You don’t have to go to hell to experience it. The self-checkout line provides you with hell for free!

It’s heII to pay.

Or is it, “would you like to take a survey?” Was in hospitality for years, and companies were obsessed with these results. One company wouldn’t let me, the gm, go home until I had 5 surveys completed and turned in every day. There was so much fraud involved that I have 0 confidence in any guest reports.

Wait’ll you see the TSA lineup at the bathrooms.

Thats so true. LOL

i’ll bet his shopping cart had wheels that wanted to go in different directions… ☺

Every depiction I’ve ever seen of the fantasies of eternal d@mnation in He11 consist of torment and misery. So a shopping trip in He11 will never end well. The shelves will all be empty, or you’ll experience the situation encountered here, or you’ll get your groceries “home” (whatever that means) and find the packages and cans are empty, or filled with disgusting things. Waste of effort.

As for using self-checkout, it doesn’t bother me at all. I double-bag so the bags won’t shred before I even get them home. I do a more efficient job of bagging than the cashiers at the store. And if a problem arises, there’s usually somebody nearby and it gets resolved. Of course I wouldn’t mind getting a discount — maybe even a coupon — for doing it, but I guess you can’t have everything.