Day 4910 of telling people that being introverted and having social anxiety are not the same.
i am not afraid of the cashier. I just want to continue listening to my music and be left the fuck alone while paying too much of my income on basic necessities.
Exactly what i wanted to say. I am pretty introverted, but i 100% prefer having a nice little chat with the cashier instead of having a machine scream at me to put the item in the bagging area
Preach
The majority of self-checkouts I’ve tried were such a clusterfuck of bad UI design, and it’s made worse by the requirement to have a human check your ID when you’re buying alcohol etc., which is a huge bottleneck when a lot of people are using SC. And when you inevitably push some wrong button that puts you into a situation you can’t get out of without employee intervention, you (as an introvert) are in a far worse situation than if you had just used a regular checkout (though cashiers in my country don’t really do small-talk, which obviously helps a lot from an introvert perspective).
Here in sweden they all work fine, biggest UI problem is that they require you to tap the screen before you can tap your card and start scanning…
As usual, Swedes live decades in the future.
don’t worry, we also have decades of cultural erasure from our own government and we’re currently in the process of dismantling every public instituation in favour of privatizations, we’ll be a dystopian hellscape soon enough.
Yeah I absolutely prefer the regular checkout. They don’t care if I say a word or not. It’s faster and more convenient and it is 100 times less awkward than waiting for help or sneaking away when you realize this isn’t working and you need regular checkout. Stupid Rewe stupid herbs that don’t weigh enough I CAN’T MAKE THEM WEIGH MORE you stupid scale with your stupid put the scanned product on the basket side
Except I am also severely frustrated by how crappy they are, with 50% of my checkouts requiring pressing the bloody assistance button.
Problem between bag and screen
The original skill issue
PEBBAS; sounds fun!
Same, they are so damn frustrating that “that makes 13.89, you want a receipt?” “Yup” is preferable
Here they work fantastic
Just 50%? You’re a pro cashier I would say.
Self check out was created as a way to reduce labor costs in stores allowing them to maximize profits.
If they manage to make my shipping experience faster and more convenient while saving money I’m not gonna bitch too much.
Sometimes technology makes a job obsolete. Not many milkmen or stablehands these days either, and society isn’t worse off because of it.
It’s also a way to decrease the amount of labor required to produce an essential service, which is good. Might as well complain about the combine harvester killing jobs in the agrarian sector. Do you want to work as a field hand who harvests grain with hand tools? Hell, do you actually want to work as a cashier?
If stores exploit the lower costs, that’s entirely on our societies failing to distribute wealth properly. Don’t blame technology for that.
You’re not wrong
I’m introverted and don’t use them…
Give me a 10% discount on everything and I use them. I you don’t, what is my motivation to use them? So they can fire part of their workers, replace them with a computer and keep the wages?
TBH: They are pretty rare where I’m from (Germany).
I use them because it’s faster, I don’t have to stress about the person behind me and don’t have to deal with people. They’re bliss
What a sad world we live in, where less work is actually bad for the workers :c
Do you actually want to work as a cashier? If not, why do you want our society stuck in a state where such jobs need to be performed?
Universal basic income and automate everything.
What’s wrong with being a cashier?
To answer your question: I don’t want to work in any other job than my current one, because I like it.
I’m from Germany. Compared to the USA, the cashiers here are not forced to stand the whole day. Lots of my frieds worked in that job when they were at school or university. Not a bad job IMO…
Universal basic income and automate everything.
Sounds good. Too good to become true.
Do you actually want to work as a cashier?
Of course not - that’s why I don’t use the self service tills. I don’t work for the supermarket and I’m not beeping my own damn shopping.
Not everyone wants a career or an interesting job. Many people just want to work some hours and earn some money and that’s fine.
I don’t know in which region in Germany you live, but self checkout is quite common in my region and I love it.
In my area, LIDL, EDEKA and a third one don’t have them. Only ALDI has them here.
But I don’t doubt that they all want to establish this, because it’s cheaper for them.
They are ok, but the implementation in some stores is terrible. The one closest to my home has a scale that measures the weight of the products you scan. Almost every time I use it that scale decalibrates itself or doesn’t properly detect that I put the product down, and locks itself until a cashier comes and solves the issue. And it locks itself for other reasons too, like if a card payment fails, you can’t retry until the cashier comes and unlocks it. The only advantage is the smaller queue.
I’m not sure about that, I feel even more observed at the self-checkouts.
I love the supermarkets that have a beep thing, that you use to beep everything during shopping, than you just hand the beep thing over to the cashier or beep it at the self check out, pay and get the fuck out of there.
Nothing worse then when the thing bugs out and you have to awkwardly wait for the staff to come help you
and shoplifters
Then try online order & delivery. You’ll lose your freakin mind!
Where I live there were a lot of people complaining about order and delivery especially when ordering fruits and vegetables. The delivery people don’t care about picking the better ones.
Privacy organizations when self-checkouts accept only cards:
Nah, now I am just anxious that I am going slow and preventing others from checking out.
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