You don’t to talk to the cashiers, no one is forcing you to do anything and they won’t even remember you, it’s fine. Why so mad about having the smallest interaction with another human being?
You don’t even have to speak to the checkout person. Yet lemmy treats anxiety as normal, memes abound! Yeah, that’s fucking weird and anyone that crippled is, well, crippled, needs serious help.
I have crippling anxiety - and i overwhelmingly prefer a manned checkout.
Manned checkout:
Hi, here are my bags, paying by card, thanks.
Robot:
Unexpected item in bagging area
Tryand flag a worker down
they are busy solving the above issue for4 other people
wait patiently for a minute or two
the worker doesn't realise i need their help
have to go ask them for help
continue scanning my items
above happens 2-5 more times
The robot tends to have significantly more human interaction, it’s slower than having a professional do it, and the human interaction is SO much worse.
You think that’s bad, did you know some stores make you pick the stuff up from the shelves instead of the worker doing it for you!
Yeah, I’m not sure why I would be bothered by having to scan my own stuff, especially since I get through self-checkouts much faster. I value my time more than saving that physical action.
really depends. If you are a busy buiseness person, sure. but if you just stand there and wait for rhe people infront of you, you might as well do the self-checkout if its faster
Do you think about the shoe shiners losing their job when you choose to wear sports shoes instead of dress shoes? Would that be a valid argument to stop you? It’s not my responsibility to go out of my way to make sure certain jobs stay relevant.
Minimum wage did this. If they have to pay more than the natural rate for that labor they are going to hire as little as they can. Eventually things will slow and they will get through the queue but you will have to wait. But the company had no downtime for expensive labor.
The alternative was hiring a lot of people at an extremely low rate, meaning you end up with more labor than you need by a lot when things are slow, but at least you aren’t paying much for that excess labor and your customers never wait so they are likely to return. The consumer really wins there but someone will have to be paid a low wage.
This has been Target and Walmart for the last 30 or 40 years. They build them with 30 lanes with the idea of Xmas rush but then only have one or two lanes open no matter how many customers are waiting.
This was a problem long before self checkout or higher minimum wages or any of that.
When you see this, you should be thinking “look what they fucking took from us.”
Once upon a time, those lanes all ran. The CEO’s megayacht is the reason you have to stand in line or check out yourself.
Thanks CEO’s megayacht. I’ll always pick self checkout over forced human interaction.
You don’t to talk to the cashiers, no one is forcing you to do anything and they won’t even remember you, it’s fine. Why so mad about having the smallest interaction with another human being?
Some of these people are fucking weird. Like the person you’re replying to? Yeah, I would not want to know someone that antisocial IRL.
Maybe you’re weird for making such a statement. Have you ever heard of social anxiety? It can be crippling.
You don’t even have to speak to the checkout person. Yet lemmy treats anxiety as normal, memes abound! Yeah, that’s fucking weird and anyone that crippled is, well, crippled, needs serious help.
I have crippling anxiety - and i overwhelmingly prefer a manned checkout.
Manned checkout:
Hi, here are my bags, paying by card, thanks.Robot:
Unexpected item in bagging area Try and flag a worker down they are busy solving the above issue for 4 other people wait patiently for a minute or two the worker doesn't realise i need their help have to go ask them for help continue scanning my items above happens 2-5 more timesThe robot tends to have significantly more human interaction, it’s slower than having a professional do it, and the human interaction is SO much worse.
The CEO’s megayacht thanks you for doing the cashier’s work for free
My labour ain’t free.
This is why I always use the cashier lanes. I can goof around and check my phone while I wait. The store can pay somebody to check my items out
You think that’s bad, did you know some stores make you pick the stuff up from the shelves instead of the worker doing it for you!
Yeah, I’m not sure why I would be bothered by having to scan my own stuff, especially since I get through self-checkouts much faster. I value my time more than saving that physical action.
I beg to differ. I don’t have pay attention in the normal checkout - that time is fully mine.
In the self checkout that’s time I can’t use on anything else.
Its specifically because I value my time I avoid the self checkout unless I am only picking up a couple things.
really depends. If you are a busy buiseness person, sure. but if you just stand there and wait for rhe people infront of you, you might as well do the self-checkout if its faster
Yeah fuck workers amirite
Do you think about the shoe shiners losing their job when you choose to wear sports shoes instead of dress shoes? Would that be a valid argument to stop you? It’s not my responsibility to go out of my way to make sure certain jobs stay relevant.
Hunter-gatherers must have been real mad when agriculture was invented
Should have become sex workers. That job is still relevant.
Agriculture is no longer relevant? Holy fucking shit, it’s really the end times.
Minimum wage did this. If they have to pay more than the natural rate for that labor they are going to hire as little as they can. Eventually things will slow and they will get through the queue but you will have to wait. But the company had no downtime for expensive labor.
The alternative was hiring a lot of people at an extremely low rate, meaning you end up with more labor than you need by a lot when things are slow, but at least you aren’t paying much for that excess labor and your customers never wait so they are likely to return. The consumer really wins there but someone will have to be paid a low wage.
This has been Target and Walmart for the last 30 or 40 years. They build them with 30 lanes with the idea of Xmas rush but then only have one or two lanes open no matter how many customers are waiting.
This was a problem long before self checkout or higher minimum wages or any of that.
They don’t even open the other lanes for xmas rush anymore…