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I prefer self checkout but I do feel you should be getting a discount for using it.
You can give yourself a discount, if you know what I mean
If I try scanning something 5 times and it doesn't register, I'm moving onto the next item. It's a discount for not teaching me how to use the machine properly.
Me ringing up my PS5: I think this is the right button
Scanner: Weigh your ONIONS... place your ONIONS in the bag
Now just gotta find a store that keeps consoles unattended on the shelves...
Weird how often my thumb lands atop the barcode...
They should also give me a discount for my travel to the store and taking the items off the shelf.
I feel like that's a bit different.
Grocery stores used to get your items off the shelf for you but now we do that. I think we're just used to a cashier scanning the items, so it will obviously take time for people to adjust.
At least the latter is a similar sort of change. Cashier/storekeep work is now something the customer does.
I dunno about this one, like what kind of a discount would apply here? How big?
I think in a vacuum a self checkout saves a buck or two per purchase for the store. But that is in a vacuum, you still have a cashier assisting the checkout, maintenance for scanners, probably security watching the scanners etc. I don’t doubt it saves cash, but like probably cents per purchase.
Eh, you have one cashier watching like 7 checkouts. Security would be a thing regardless, because they'd otherwise be watching to make sure nobody walks out with an item or steals from the register.
I'm not really convinced they do a lot of maintenance on those things, for how well they function, but I also wouldn't be surprised if that's the machine at its best.
Wouldn't know how much they really cost per machine in order to account for that, either, but the Walmart near me only ever has one person watching the self-checkout, doesn't even always have anyone on an available lane, and they've had those things forever.
That one, at least, didn't buy more tech for covid. They just fired some people and redirected the customers. They're saving more than enough in wages.
The fact that, from experience, my average customers per hour divided by pay (and thus, the rightful customer discount for doing my job) still adds up to a matter of cents probably says more about how much I was being paid.
I wonder, what was your average customers/h assuming non-stop traffic? I don't remember how fast it went, I was doing shelves and warehouse, subbed in register only a few times when work was basically done in the evening.
Gotta say tho, can't imagine why someone would go cashier in a supper market, it is the most brutal place for sure. Working shelves and warehouse was pretty chill all things considered, at least we could go pee and have smoke breaks, as well as eat on our own schedule.