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Sometimes the cashiers themselves are slow and scan items like they're regretting every life decision they ever made.
What I love about selfcheckout is I go at my pace, as fast or slow as I want to be.
Such a good description of my local cashiers'
@monobot @NathanielThomas
You could always switch jobs with them for 2 weeks just to show them how it should be done.
I was working in fast food for a long time, it was more than enough for me, thank you.
But looks like good job to automate, let people do something better.
You mean like those no employee convenience stores?
I like the principal of it, but wonder how much extra work is involved in making sure all the products are properly tracked.
I've never seen a cashier who's not a trainee who's not faster than self checkout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGw0ATZah1w
But that is the problem: when I go to a cashier I feel rushed to bag everything and pay in the time it takes a professional to scan everything. When I go to a self-checkout register, items are scanned exactly at the same rate that I bag them.
At the same time, there is hardly any waiting for self-checkout lines. In other words, for my taste they are better in almost every way.
As soon as groceries having dedicated baggers (or cashiers who bag stuff for you) ceased to be a thing, I felt that pressure too.