In some places, they are making you subscribe to Walmart+ to use self checkout. Like, it wasn't just annoying enough, now if you don't have their subscription service, you have to stand in the extra long non-self checkout line. Can they make us hate it any more?

Most stores around me thankfully don't even use the weight station. I don't even think Walmart does anymore since they "upgraded" their checkouts recently. (The self checkouts have completely taken over and have a sort of open floor concept going on.)

Yeah. Give a cashier a wage, or give me a staff discount.

I once asked a cashier in Germany if she thought self-checkouts would take away her job. She said she liked them because there's enough to do anyway and they take away the boring task of cashier-ing.

Do you feel the same about self serve gas?

I like them because it makes my bagging more efficient. At the lanes, if I'm getting a decent amount of groceries, I usually end up bagging for a while after I've paid and feel like a dick because I'm in the way of the people getting rung up behind me.

At self checkouts, I take it out of the cart, scan, then stick it right in the bag. Even better if they don't have the stupid weighing thing that assumes I'm trying to steal shit if they don't micromanage every item going into my bag.

Also, in this case, management is telling workers to not make fun of people who don't want to use self checkouts.

With self checkout I can literally get in and out the grocery store in like 10-30 minutes where 98% of the time is me choosing products instead of waiting 5-15 minutes in the cashier lane waiting for old people to put their shit on the rolling thing

I'll be honest, going with the people that get paid to do it is way faster for bigger buys

Some people are too entitled and think everyone else exists to serve and fawn over them

I love self checkout. From my decades of cash register experience I can tell you, your soul begins to leave your body standing still for hours doing the same repetitive mindless task. It is not a job most want nor honestly should do. I really can't fathom the folks who prefer waiting in line for one bored af human to do a task they could easily do themselves. A good company would find other things for their employees to do or (this would never happen) pay them more per hour to work fewer hours totaling the same weekly check. I feel only the elderly, overburdened, and incapable should use a cashier. If you got 2 available, working hands and can twist at the waist - get to scanning!!

How is saying I" don't work here" in response to the employee approaching them to direct them to the self-checkout - how is that harassing them?

I like to have both. Self check out if I only have <10 items. But if I have a full cart I'd like to go to a cashier who has the scanning down to a T. I think this the best of both worlds.

I love it. Less social interaction after a long day of work, I can keep my headphones on. It's a bliss for me.

It IS weird how this cost saving measure hasn't saved us any money, isn't it?

here in Germany the self-checkouts mostly have a cash machine so you can pay cash without a person there

I'd just abandon my shopping at that point and go somewhere else.

Ok boomer