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RandalFlagg
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What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes?
#5685529 - 05/29/06 02:28 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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You know, the ones where you scan your own stuff and there is no clerk.
They absolutely infuriate me. Now don't get me wrong, they are a very good concept. If a computer is able to replace some clerks and increase efficiency then why not? But, the damn things ALWAYS fuck up.
I religiously follow the instructions and the computer seems to mess up anyway. Here's my most recent encounter with one of these things:
Automated Checkout: "Scan your item". I scan it. Automated Checkout: "Put the item in your bag". I put the item in my bag. Automated Checkout: "Unauthorized item in the bagging area...please remove it." I remove it. The computer doesn't remove the bill for said item. It is going to make me pay for something and it won't let me take it? WTF? I then attempt to reset the thing. There is no reset. I start swearing loudly at it. People are looking at me. I just walk away from it and I look for a checkout lane with a real clerk. Automated Checkout (very loudly): "Please wait for assistance. Please wait for assistance."
Piece of shit.
Edited by RandalFlagg (05/29/06 02:34 AM)
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685537 - 05/29/06 02:32 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, those things totally suck, except for the ones at my old local walmart. They worked, but the ones out here at walmart suck. Not to hijack the thread, but earlier I had a hell of a headache, and went to Ralph's to get one bottle of pills. This fat fucking bitch in front of me went through the ten items or less lane with 38 items. After 20, I actually started counting that fat cunts items out loud, and said, "wow, that is 380% of 10 items". Fat fucking cunt. I'm still pissed. She didn't even help bag the goddamn groceries.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685542 - 05/29/06 02:34 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Best goddamn invention ever. The scales are very sensitive though. Where I shop they always have a clerk monitoring the 4 self checkouts in case of weirdness.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685546 - 05/29/06 02:39 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Same thing happens to me all the time.
Or if you buy beer or ciggerettes you get the "Please show your ID to the cashier."
That's why I am in the self-checkout lane, so I wouldn't have to deal with a cashier.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: blacksabbathrulz]
#5685548 - 05/29/06 02:39 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, I know what you mean. People who go through the ten items or less lane with over ten items piss me the fuck off.
My grocery store sucks so much dick (this store is not where the most recent computer checkout thing screwed up). The service is horrible. The lanes move incredibly slow. I think it's because the store is in the 'hood. All of the stores that are in the nice areas have really nice and quick service.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685550 - 05/29/06 02:41 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Unauthorized item in the bagging area...please remove it." I remove it. The computer doesn't remove the bill for said item.
all that meant was that everything you bought didnt 'weigh' out accordingly. that "baggage area" is an actual scale.
same shit happened to me at home depot afer i added nutts & washers to some bolts.
but yeah, those machines are a piece of shit.
i remember seeing a tv commercial where a man is in a grocery store, sticks something in his pocket & walks out the door, portraying him a a thief, but then it goes into a segment where it shows him walking through those doors, and the item in his pocket invisibly scanned & automatically debited to his atm/cc/debit card. now THAT would be cool.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685552 - 05/29/06 02:41 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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The other day I tried to buy super glue, and they checked my ID. That was annoying.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: 40oz]
#5685556 - 05/29/06 02:44 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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40oz said: it shows him walking through those doors, and the item in his pocket invisibly scanned & automatically debited to his atm/cc/debit card. now THAT would be cool.
That sounds convenient...but a little too "Big Brother-ish" for me.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: blacksabbathrulz]
#5685557 - 05/29/06 02:45 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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blacksabbathrulz said: The other day I tried to buy super glue, and they checked my ID. That was annoying.
Did they think you were going to glue people to toilet seats or something?
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685563 - 05/29/06 02:47 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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RandalFlagg said:
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blacksabbathrulz said: The other day I tried to buy super glue, and they checked my ID. That was annoying.
Did they think you were going to glue people to toilet seats or something?
I'm really not sure. I was baffled. I was surprised they carded me period, I'm 22, and unfortunately most people think I'm like 30.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: blacksabbathrulz]
#5685566 - 05/29/06 02:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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why punk is dead
sniffing glue! drinking beer! dont give a fuck how the hippies feel!
this is for you, joey! your memory fucking lives! your three chord wonders made in n.y.c.!
gabba gabba hey! punk is here to stay! hey ho lets go! sniffin glue all day!
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: blacksabbathrulz]
#5685567 - 05/29/06 02:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's the exact opposite with me. I'm 26 and people think I'm 17.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: gregorio]
#5685620 - 05/29/06 04:06 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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gregorio said: Same thing happens to me all the time.
Or if you buy beer or ciggerettes you get the "Please show your ID to the cashier."
That's why I am in the self-checkout lane, so I wouldn't have to deal with a cashier.
Yeah, I did the same thing with condoms. In Georgia you have to be 18 to buy condoms. Would have been fine but I was buying magnums and the clerk was some 5'2" asian dude and there were a few families in the other check out things. Talk about awkward moment :\
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: Gumby]
#5685651 - 05/29/06 05:01 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I like em, but i absolutely hate the noise they make when you fuck up. " Please wait, assitance will be here shortly" at like THIS FUCKING LOUD so the whole store can turn and see your dumb ass having trouble with a touch screen. Why cant they just silently buzz the cashier?
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685669 - 05/29/06 05:44 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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RandalFlagg said: If a computer is able to replace some clerks and increase efficiency then why not?
I usualy shop for groceries after 11pm, unfortunately the store has a few self checkout lanes, with a buggy full of shit I expect a real cashier to be checking me out, with this chain of stores the self check out is supposed to be shut down on 3rd shift but the night cashiers there are aparently too lazy to do their job so they reopen the self check out and you end up with a line of pissed off people trying to scan there stuff... it's not uncommon to see people walk out leaving their carts half full and the cashier standing around filing her nails.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685673 - 05/29/06 05:56 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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For the most part I think they are the wave of the future, but there needs to be some changes.
1. you should be required to use a CC, or debit card. too much time is wasted on people who write checks.
2. old people must be banned from using, they have no idea how to interact with the unit.
3. no one with kids and strollers allowed. they block the lane for the faster people behind.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: rod]
#5685683 - 05/29/06 06:24 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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rod said: For the most part I think they are the wave of the future, but there needs to be some changes.
2. old people must be banned from using, they have no idea how to interact with the unit.
Amen!! I am always held up by some old white lady or old black dude who can't even figure out how to scan the stuff. That shit puts me in Road Rage or, uh, Cart Rage mode.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: JiggleThaHandle]
#5685691 - 05/29/06 06:35 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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rod said: For the most part I think they are the wave of the future, but there needs to be some changes.
2. old people must be banned from using, they have no idea how to interact with the unit.
Amen!! I am always held up by some old white lady or old black dude who can't even figure out how to scan the stuff. That shit puts me in Road Rage or, uh, Cart Rage mode.
some guy was arrested, and was on the news after he put his fist thru Wal-marts self check lane, he must have had display rage.
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5685811 - 05/29/06 08:35 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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since the only thing i really buy is beer i like to use em its way faster and all the people there know me so when it beeps show idea i just look up and they smile and nod then im on my way
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Re: What do you guys think of self-checkout lanes? [Re: Dobie]
#5685851 - 05/29/06 08:48 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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self-checkout lanes are the perfect opportunity to get free stuff when you buy lots of groceries....if you know what i mean.
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