Reality Check by Dave Whamond for May 22, 2022

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    oldpine52  over 2 years ago

    Self check out should be outlawed.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Been there, done that.

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    C  over 2 years ago

    Vote with your wallet

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    angelolady Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I call the attendant before the second time I’m talking back to the thing. And I try to laugh at the whole mess instead of getting upset. However….most of the stores here open only one or two cashier checkouts, which get long lines. One store does that, plus all the self-checks are 10 items or less!!! I go there as seldom as possible.

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    Farside99  over 2 years ago

    I avoid self-checks because people need jobs, not robots. One time I broke my rule and went to a self-check at CVS. I paid cash. It gave me my 60 cents change in pennies. I then had to go to the cashier to get them changed to usable money. No more self-checks.

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    Baarorso  over 2 years ago

    I refuse to go through the self checkout lines. I always will use a human checkout one.

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    amethyst52 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I rarely use them, but the nagging about the bag makes me want to bash it. They put a couple in at COSTCO and it was nice because I just had a box of coffee pods and didn’t have to wait in line behind someone with 3 shopping carts filled to the brim.

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    A Common 'tator  over 2 years ago

    Doesn’t anyone use the self-scanners, on the trolley, before you put the item directly into your bag ?

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    Imagine  over 2 years ago

    Am I missing something by having used well-functioning self-checkouts in Europe and not any in the US? Does really everything just work better anywhere else?

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    William Bednar Premium Member over 2 years ago

    That’s the problem with AI, too much A not enough I.

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    e.groves  over 2 years ago

    I use the self-checkout at Walmart most of the time. I have very few problems and I don’t have to wait in line..

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    pathamil  over 2 years ago

    The price of every item in the store includes money to pay the cashiers. If I check myself out, I’m just giving the store free money…

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    Zebrastripes  over 2 years ago

    No thanks! I have enough happening than to be aggravated by a checkout-Siri!

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I support workers and refuse to use a self checkout. One of the local drug store chains (Shoppers) went with all but one self checkouts. Gonna lose me as a customer.. not that they care.

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    GovernorOfCalisota {LoveBozobyFoxo} Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Serenity now… I can’t help but reading it as said by Jerry Stiller/Frank Costanza. :-D

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    EMGULS79  over 2 years ago

    The day the store gives me a significant discount for doing their job for them is the day I’ll use self-checkout.

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    belgarathmth  over 2 years ago

    Walmart has that disabled now. Instead they have an employee stand there and watch everybody. If they’re going to do that, why don’t they just hire people to run registers like stores used to? I guess the idea is that one person can supervise the entire self-check area instead of only running a single line. I wonder if I could get a job as a Walmart self-check watcher? Hey, I sound like an Andy Rooney commentary.

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    rm8ty  over 2 years ago

    First thing I do at a self checkout is turn the sound off. Problem solved, no more nagging.

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    Cozmik Cowboy  over 2 years ago

    Self-scanners are not there for your convenience; they’re there to put people out of work. Don’t use them!

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    Baucuva  over 2 years ago

    Check out technology is getting better and better. Employees are expensive. Corporate box stores want to have as few employees as possible. As soon as foolproof check out technology arrives all stores will implement it and a human checker won’t even be an option.

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    paranormal  over 2 years ago

    I hate those overly sensitive things…

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    Howard'sMyHero  over 2 years ago

    Hate it when programmers try to do all your thinking for you … Microsoft in particular …

    not to mention ALL of social media …!

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    Pedmar Premium Member over 2 years ago

    With me it’s usually telling me the opposite, i.e., to scan the item I just put in the bag when I have indeed just scanned it!

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    battycomic Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Sounds like the self check-outs at my local grocery store.

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    No self checks up here. But when I did live in a city that had self checks I would always pay myself with a steak or three. If the store is not going to pay me for my work then I will pay myself.

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    zeexenon  over 2 years ago

    It puts the lotion on it’s skin, or else it gets the hose again.

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    Rose Madder Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Once in awhile at our local store – when I do use the self checkout. There is a button I tap for ‘your own bags’. I’m going along doing fine and then the screen will pop-up – Are you using your own bags? Didn’t I already tell it yes? It doesn’t always seem to remember that I said ‘I was’. Why have the function, if it is going to forget while you are scanning. The attendant then has to come over and ‘unlock’ the screen.

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    Sneaker  over 2 years ago

    I used those darned things 2 times and had problems ,then had to wait at customer service for 10 minutes for a person to make things straight. They usually have people standing there to help you so why not just put them on an empty register in the first place. I refuse to use them now!!

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I don’t pay these outrageous prices so that I have to do my own scanning!

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    Zykoic  over 2 years ago

    I unrelentingly kick the machine until a real person arrives.

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    humorist54 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Dave W. must have been watching me …

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    Sparks13  over 2 years ago

    Why the hell do you want to give these stores your free labor?

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