self checkout at walmart

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I never use anything like this; self checkout, automatic bank payments, atm bill deposits.... I MUCH prefer dealing with another human. Being an iconoclast and anti-corp I HATE attempts to do away with people. Anything I can do to make the corps work a little harder is okay by me. And worth a bit of inconvenience.

Don C.

[Mego Milk]

AW YEAH Self Check Out!

sounds kinda sexy.

[Adam West]

My wife is the store manager for the Salem N.H. Walmart Supercenter and she told me that about 60% of their Shrink (theft) occurs at the self check-out aisles

Interesting. I'm curious why the theft would occur at the self-checkout rather than before check-out even occurs. I guess it would make sense to place more cameras on the self-checkout aisles if this were the case.

I work for a retail company as well (nothing the size of Wal-Mart) and our biggest cause of shrink is employee theft.

[mitchedwards]

I use the self checkout if no on is in front of me.

I have had the misfortune of the newbie, in front of me, trying to figure out how the machine operates, and that turns into a 30 minute wait.

[kryptosmaster]

I use it because old people hate it and I don't have to wait behind old people or ignorant people either. It takes close to average intelligence to use the thing also so that rules out a lot of people who are usually in front of you or I when we are trying to get in and out.

Must be the same people who are in front of you at the drive-thru ATM? The ones who take so long you figure they must have never seen an ATM before?
Or the ones in front of you at McDonalds who act like they've never been there before either? The menu hasn't really changed, people! LOL. When I take my kids I always find out what they want while we're in the car. Then when we get to the counter I rattle off their orders.
Rich

[garagesale]

I just love the self-checkout.

Last year I did a little comic book story about the self-checkout.

Check it out.

JamesD

[Cosmicman]

I use it because old people hate it and I don't have to wait behind old people or ignorant people either. It takes close to average intelligence to use the thing also so that rules out a lot of people who are usually in front of you or I when we are trying to get in and out.

[Goblin19]

I'll use them if no one else is there and I have a few items. Otherwise, I avoid them like the plague. They never seem to go smoothly when you're behind someone else.

[Bill]

I never have very good luck with those self checking things. I understand the concept, but between the scanner not registering or the bagging area not sensing the item weight or my items just being too big to use the bagging area, I always screw something up.

I remember when they finally put the self checking section into the supermarket I shopped in back in Baltimore, I was so happy. The cashiers were less than, well, I 'm not sure if they were even breathing at times. But the only thing slower than those cashiers were the people who chose to use the self checkout.

[johnnystorm]

They had them here, then took them out and replaced them with lanes that are never open. When is the technology coming that allows you to just push the cart thru a scanner and total up the bill. WM doesn't seem to want to have more than two cashiers on at any time anyway.

Some GIANT supermarket stores in our area have scanners in the cart handle that allow you to scan items as you put them into your cart, then pay the total at checkout. I haven't tried this yet, I'm of the "cashiers are here to ring me up school". I try to avoid self checkout unless I only have one or two things. Usually at Wal Mart the cashier has to come over anyway because the machines never register right.

Has anyone ever noticed what I call the "Holographic Cashier" phenomon? That's when you walk into WallyWorld past the register banks and there are cashiers at the entrance to the checkouts, waving customers into thier lines.
You go and shop, get your stuff, and when you go to checkout, there is only one line open and 75 people ahead of you in it. All those other cashiers are gone now. I don't believe they exist, I think they are holograms designed to fool you into believing you can get in and out of the store quickly. I believe that WalMart has partnered with Disney for this technology.

[MegoMark71]

Anderson you have been holding out on me. Tell your wife i want my discount

[thunderbolt]

They had them here, then took them out and replaced them with lanes that are never open. When is the technology coming that allows you to just push the cart thru a scanner and total up the bill. WM doesn't seem to want to have more than two cashiers on at any time anyway.

[vulcan2074]

I like the Self checkout if I'm in a hurry and the lines are getting long. I got the self checkout down. I'm pretty quick
Sammy

[Mikey]

Kroger, in Ohio does the same thing. I'm sure lots of grocery chains carry the policy. With Kroger, it is usually a sale item that doesn't ring up as a sale. I always catch this stuff after I'm home and my wife goes you paid THAT for this and I say, No, if it wasn't on sale I would not have bought it. I hate that.

I'm the opposite.
I'll stand there and add it all up 3 times in my head before i'm satisfied and walk out

Just the other day I got a free $6.00 box of steak sandwich meat

[bgrimm77]

My wife is the store manager for the Salem N.H. Walmart Supercenter and she told me that about 60% of their Shrink (theft) occurs at the self check-out aisles