Rules for using the Self Checkout!

[Jiggy_12]

I always use a self-checkout whenever the option is available. I hate when a store has the self-checkout, but its closed...always mind boggeling why they need to close those down.

Self-checkouts and drive-thru's...two things that work smoothly most of the time, but when they get messed up...boy is it frustrating.

[Suzles]

Originally Posted by rubecube

No, it's generally true. The biggest strugglers are the older folks who yell and cry when the machine isn't able to guess which produce item they've just put on the scale. Then they get mad and ask for a manager to complain about the poor customer service and how these new machines are "ripping them off." It never once occurs to them that they still have the option to go to a cashier. Old people suck.

I would just like to clarify that 50 is NOT old (so, yes, I am in my 50's). I think old starts at about 87.

[pylon]

One of the funniest things I ever saw was at Walmart and some guy was using one of those things.

He was at the point where the thing was asking him to select his form of payment.

So he pushes the touch screen and waits. "Please select your form of payment".......

touches it again "Please select your form of payment"

pushes the screen a little harder "Please select your form of payment"

Sort of hits the thing with the tips of his fingers......same thing.

On about the 8th time, this normal looking middle aged guy, probably 50ish, wearing Khakis and a golf shirt, winds up and frikkin Falcon Punches the LCD screen. Like he annahilated it. Bent the thing back, and totally gibbled the display left his stuff on the scale and just walked out.

It was one of those, "did I just frikkin witness that?!!" kind of moments, and I started laughing along with every other guy in the line, while all the women just glared at all of us.

[Rerun]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Ok it was my fault. I decided to goto Superstore at 7pm tonite.

I cannot believe some of the people using the self check out at the busiest time of day.

Follow these rules idiots!!!

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- Don't use the self checkout if you are over 50!
.....
So if you can't follow these simple rules go stand in line at a regular cashier with your check book handy.

HEY!!! I take offense to that. Just because you turn 50 doesn't mean you turn stupid too. There are plenty of young people who are so dumb they can barely tie their own shoe laces.

[Rerun]

Originally Posted by rubecube

No, it's generally true. The biggest strugglers are the older folks who yell and cry when the machine isn't able to guess which produce item they've just put on the scale. Then they get mad and ask for a manager to complain about the poor customer service and how these new machines are "ripping them off." It never once occurs to them that they still have the option to go to a cashier. Old people suck.

Yeah... like just because you're under the age of 50 you automatically understand how everything works. I guess when you turn 50 the "understand switch" must automatically turn off eh?

I guess you've never met anyone young who is dumber than a post eh?

Stupid kids.... they think they know it all.


Edit: Btw, did you know that the median age of Physics Nobel prize recipients is 51?

[pylon]

Originally Posted by rubecube

No, it's generally true. The biggest strugglers are the older folks who yell and cry when the machine isn't able to guess which produce item they've just put on the scale. Then they get mad and ask for a manager to complain about the poor customer service and how these new machines are "ripping them off." It never once occurs to them that they still have the option to go to a cashier. Old people suck.

I always get a kick out of people who make comments like that. They seem to figure they are immune from aging, and will never get old. Once you hit 30, the years start going by real fast... and all of a sudden you are the guy struggling with how to operate the "virtual holo-replicator grocery tron 5000 cashier" and taking offence to statements like that.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Ikea has self checkout? Really? hahaha. i haven't been there in a while. Maybe i'll zoom over there today and park right in front of the store with my non-prius hybrid which uses NO gas.

It's very frustrating there. It's not like you have to assemble the self-checkout first.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Sample00

Wow, its probably a good thing I'm not old then. I'd really hate to be generalized like that.

Originally Posted by Suzles

I would just like to clarify that 50 is NOT old (so, yes, I am in my 50's). I think old starts at about 87.

Originally Posted by Rerun

Yeah... like just because you're under the age of 50 you automatically understand how everything works. I guess when you turn 50 the "understand switch" must automatically turn off eh?

I guess you've never met anyone young who is dumber than a post eh?

Stupid kids.... they think they know it all.


Edit: Btw, did you know that the median age of Physics Nobel prize recipients is 51?

Originally Posted by pylon

I always get a kick out of people who make comments like that. They seem to figure they are immune from aging, and will never get old. Once you hit 30, the years start going by real fast... and all of a sudden you are the guy struggling with how to operate the "virtual holo-replicator grocery tron 5000 cashier" and taking offence to statements like that.

And the seniors take the bait....



Thank-you, thank-you!

[Doctordestiny]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

- Don't use the self checkout if you have more than 50 items in your cart!
- Don't use the self checkout if you have more than 5 produce items!
- Don't use the self checkout if you have more than 5 bakery items!
- Don't use the self checkout if you are over 50!
- Don't use the self checkout if you cannot read English!
- Don't use the self checkout if you are going to let your kids play with the scanner like a toy!
- Don't use the self checkout if you don't write down your stupid bulk bin numbers!
- Don't use the self checkout if there is some hot chick cashier in the regular aisles. hehe

Are these really rules or just Bert ranting? Serious question. I have rarely used self checkout so don't know if rules exist.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Doctordestiny

Are these really rules or just Bert ranting? Serious question. I have rarely used self checkout so don't know if rules exist.

Yup, these rules are written on top of every self-checkout machine.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Doctordestiny

Are these really rules or just Bert ranting? Serious question. I have rarely used self checkout so don't know if rules exist.

hmmm yes. that last rule has a sign posted right above every monitor on the self checkout... except for in Edmonton for some odd reason.

If those rules really were rules we wouldn't have this thread.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

hmmm yes. that last rule has a sign posted right above every monitor on the self checkout... except for in Edmonton for some odd reason.

Yeah, but the bonus is you can pay the female cashiers up there with Old Dutch chips.

[Sample00]

Originally Posted by rubecube

And the seniors take the bait....



Thank-you, thank-you!

apparently, I'm old, can you explain that to me?

[jolinar of malkshor]

Maybe this has been said already but note to Walmart.

Turn off the Fing "Please put item in bag" announcement. WTF do you care if I put the item in the bag or not? Even when I do put it in the bag the stupid machine doesn't recognize it in the bag. After three times telling me to put it in the bag it locks out and calls over the cashier who is to busy dealing with everyone else's terminal that is locked out because of the damn bag thing.

TURN IT OFF.

[COGENT]

It's funny to hear peoples rants about having problems with the self checkout. I personally have never had a problem with them... probably because I'm young and hip to new technology.

[Rerun]

Originally Posted by rubecube

And the seniors take the bait....



Thank-you, thank-you!

Damn! Out smarted again! Damn those young whipper snappers! <grumble, grumble>

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Damn! Out smarted again! Damn those young whipper snappers! <grumble, grumble>

Now get off my lawn!

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by COGENT

It's funny to hear peoples rants about having problems with the self checkout. I personally have never had a problem with them... probably because I'm young and hip to new technology.

ummm new technology? the scanner was invented over 20 years ago. hahahaha

and we aren't ranting about the self checkout. it's the idiots who don't know how to use it.

[Rerun]

Originally Posted by COGENT

It's funny to hear peoples rants about having problems with the self checkout. I personally have never had a problem with them... probably because I'm young and hip to new technology.

Ah to be young and hip again.... <sigh>

It so difficult being an old, feeble minded pentagenarian. I'm surprised I can still manage to start my automobile and find my way to work every day.... what with all that new fangled technology they've got now in those horseless carriages these days.


Will someone just take me out to the back forty and shoot me?.... you know.... just to put me out of my misery?

[COGENT]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

Maybe this has been said already but note to Walmart.

Turn off the Fing "Please put item in bag" announcement. WTF do you care if I put the item in the bag or not? ...
TURN IT OFF.

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

How about a rule for the store: Don't make it impossible to use re-usable bags! Co-op's systems get utterly confused if you drop a fabric bag down. Pisses me off.

seems like rants to me... certainly worth ranting about of course, I've seen both of these problems happen on many occasions.

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

ummm new technology? the scanner was invented over 20 years ago. hahahaha

and we aren't ranting about the self checkout. it's the idiots who don't know how to use it.

LOL good point... a new idea using old technology. I guess being young doesn't make a person so smart after all