Am I the only one who gets to the self checkout and is compelled to finish as soon as humanly possible?

Imagine if there was a speedrun timer on them and a leaderboard

Would make boring everyday life a little more interesting

    • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
      12·
      7 个月前

      I don’t mind that, I really hate having to wait in queue for 25 minutes while someone checks out their family of 8’s monthly shop in the only open lane when I’ve got a packet of biscuits and a couple tins of soup

      Or wait for the cashier who’s fed up with their job to scan things 3x slower than I would, ask me if I’ve got a loyalty card, ask me if I want a receipt etc

      I am a rather impatient individual I realise but self checkouts solve those problem for me. I get why people like normal ones but self checkouts seem logical

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        7 个月前

        I’m with you about the cashier. I don’t see how having somebody working an extremely mechanical job is a good thing for them. It must be so depressing.

        I understand that people need to earn a living, but using people to be robots is a waste of their potential. At least with self checkout it’s a bit more dynamic for that one person monitoring several checkouts.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        7 个月前

        All of these issues are trivially solved by the supermarket being less of a dick. Pay your employees better, hire more people to shoulder the load - self checkout only seems logical because stores make the regular checkout process as shitty as possible.

        • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
          21·
          7 个月前

          They’re always going to be able to have more self checkouts than manned checkouts, the more of them there are the more throughput so the faster you get in

    • lud@lemm.ee
      7·
      7 个月前

      I like it a lot. It’s way quicker. Self check out greatly increase efficiency. One person can handle at least a few checkouts. Self checkouts also use way less space so there can be more checkouts than otherwise.

      Here we also often have the option of carrying around a portable scanner when shopping so when it comes to paying you just dock the scanner, pay, walk out with your prepackaged bags.

      Occasionally someone will check that you actually scanned everything but that’s pretty rare and self checkouts still saves a lot of time.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 个月前

        Cool.

        The ones here are clunky buggy pieces of shit and I’d rather deal with a human with a job instead.

        But I’m all for choices so I have nothing against other people using self-checkouts.

        • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
          5·
          7 个月前

          Over here they tend to work pretty well depending on which store you’re in

          In Lidl you have to slow yourself down a bit because the weight system gets confused if you do it too fast