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Shoppers upset over lack of cashiers as self-checkout use soars | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a huge self checkout fan, but I think we need more perspective on how shitty ours is sometimes. Loblaws and all of them are way behind on how it should work. Look at the Netherlands and how it's often done there, you walk around with a scanner so you can scan as you go and quickly pay at the end.

Or even better, look at how Uniqlo is doing it. It's all RFID, so you just drop your basket on the checkout, and it scans it all for you basically instantly.

The problem isn't self checkout, it's that the grocery stores are using it to purely cut costs and don't actually care if it's better for the consumer in any way. But hey, at least it's easy to "accidentally" not scan something right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at the Netherlands and how it's often done there, you walk around with a scanner so you can scan as you go and quickly pay at the end.

Walmart and Sam's Club have this with their Scan & Go app in the US. Scan the barcode with your phone, add it to your cart, pay from your phone, and someone at the door will scan a QR from your phone then scan a few random items in the cart and you're done.

I pretty much wouldn't shop at Sam's if it didn't exist. The checkout lines there have always been long and a pain. It cuts a ton of time standing around waiting in line out of a trip.

[–] Astroturfed 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I steal something or choose the cheaper option on everything every time. I don't work for free. Need to "make" a couple dollars if you force me to self checkout. Nothing is organic, every apple is a granny Smith. Anything super lightweight is free.

[–] lemmycolon 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you steal snacks at gas stations because you have to pump your own gas?

[–] Astroturfed -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency. Colloquially, a false equivalence is often called "comparing apples and oranges."

[–] lemmycolon 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Attendants used to pump the gas for gas station customers.
  • Associates used to scan and bag groceries for grocery store customers.
  • Gas stations no longer have attendants pumping customers' gas.
  • Grocery stores no longer have associates scanning and bagging customers' groceries.

Such a false equivalence πŸ™„

[–] Astroturfed -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They would check your fluids, clean your windshield and it was normal to tip them. Self service stations were at first an options and were cheaper. Sound the same? You only get a discount for self check if you steal, and I've never tipped a cashier at a grocery store.

Not to mention gas pumps got a lot simpler, and added auto-shutoff. The cash register at the grocery store is requiring you to do exactly the same job they used to pay someone to do, for free.