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[SutterBrother]

Self checkouts that are at an ear splitting volume. There used to be an option to mute them (which was always step 1 for me), but it's been removed.

It's like being yelled at by a kindergarten teacher. PUT YOUR ITEM IN THE BAG!

[Ped]

Shoppers is the worst for that. You can hear it throughout the whole store.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

Self checkouts that are at an ear splitting volume. There used to be an option to mute them (which was always step 1 for me), but it's been removed.

It's like being yelled at by a kindergarten teacher. PUT YOUR ITEM IN THE BAG!

I think you should have the option to customize them.

Like...a stern German woman..."ACHTUNG! PLACE ZE ITEM IN ZE BAG SCHNELL!!"

Or perhaps something more soothing like Samuel L. Jackson?

"Place your motherfataing items in the goddamned bag! Bagging motherfata! Do you dig it??"

Darth Vader would be cool too.

"I find your lack of bagging disturbing..."

Oh the possibilities are endless.

[PaperBagger'14]

I’m surprised they haven’t started putting unskippable ads in the self checkout. “Thanks for shopping at Safeway, now a word from our sponsors”.

[ResAlien]

Just steal. You’re making me work and that’s my employee discount. Don’t want me to steal? Hire someone to check me out then. There are ten unused registers and a line at self checkout.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

These multi tab people probably also have unread notifications on their phone and as such cannot be trusted.

Max 300 at any given time.

[calgarygeologist]

Air travel is infuriating, or maybe it is just Westjet. I decided to pay extra for this family trip and fly Premium. It has generally been a nice experience in the past but this time our plane got Swooped. No premium seats despite paying a premium price. What the hell!

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Just steal. You’re making me work and that’s my employee discount. Don’t want me to steal? Hire someone to check me out then. There are ten unused registers and a line at self checkout.

It doesn't seem to matter to retailers.

What really gets me is that retailers know theft spikes when they switch to self-checkouts. This isn’t some quiet issue - it’s the headline every week. But the focus of the story should be how the industry finds billions in shrinkage losses every quarter more tolerable than paying someone $13 an hour to check people out and ask them if they found everything today.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Air travel is infuriating, or maybe it is just Westjet. I decided to pay extra for this family trip and fly Premium. It has generally been a nice experience in the past but this time our plane got Swooped. No premium seats despite paying a premium price. What the hell!

You can get a refund if you submit it to WestJet.

What was the flight?

[OutOfTheCube]

I know my local Walmart might wonder why they have so many sales of crappy Mcintosh and Gala apples while the Honeycrisp seem to just vanish...

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Weitz

You can get a refund if you submit it to WestJet.

What was the flight?

1514 to LAX. They didn't even have water bottles at the seats when we boarded. I wish I booked row 1 for the extra leg room because row 2 sucks. It is just regular economy, actually worse because it is Swoop economy.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

It doesn't seem to matter to retailers.

What really gets me is that retailers know theft spikes when they switch to self-checkouts. This isn’t some quiet issue - it’s the headline every week. But the focus of the story should be how the industry finds billions in shrinkage losses every quarter more tolerable than paying someone $13 an hour to check people out and ask them if they found everything today.

Customers prefer self-checkouts. That's why.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

Self checkouts that are at an ear splitting volume. There used to be an option to mute them (which was always step 1 for me), but it's been removed.

It's like being yelled at by a kindergarten teacher. PUT YOUR ITEM IN THE BAG!

Please place the item in the bag.

Please wait for an attendant.

Do you have any coupons?

[keratosis]

Don't forget, Unexpected item in the bagging area, please wait for assistance.

Don't forget your receipt

Thank you for shopping at Costco.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by keratosis

Don't forget, Unexpected item in the bagging area, please wait for assistance.

Don't forget your receipt

Thank you for shopping at Costco.

Here is an entire roll of receipt paper!

[Monahammer]

Cashier is the exact type of job that should be automated out of society, though. Instead our AI is automating away lawyers and comedy writers and journalists and now those people have to find cashier jobs.

[Whynotnow]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

1514 to LAX. They didn't even have water bottles at the seats when we boarded. I wish I booked row 1 for the extra leg room because row 2 sucks. It is just regular economy, actually worse because it is Swoop economy.

That sucks, those swoop planes are awful and are showing up way too much.

[Monahammer]

I was a cashier at the IGA, and then Sobeys in Tuscany eons past. No one wants to do that as a career. It isn't fulfilling at all. Its subsistence. That is what automation is supposed to reduce in our lives in an ideal scenario. Corporations should be taxed for robots though so that we can provide better conditions for everyone else. All of the benefit can't be concentrated to the shareholers.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Cashier is the exact type of job that should be automated out of society, though. Instead our AI is automating away lawyers and comedy writers and journalists and now those people have to find cashier jobs.

Absolutely disagree.

Why?

Human interaction.

We as people have to keep interacting with one another rather than simple technological interaction.

Yeah, as a job it sucks, but learning that life sucks sometimes is still part of life. Its a great job for young people, its a great job for disabled people and its important for people to keep talking to other people.

Yeah. Its not hard. Yeah. You can automate it. But...should you? I dont think so.

If you're in a hurry and have a handful of items? Hit the auto checkout, otherwise? I think 'Cashier' is a good life-lesson on both sides.

One side is how to survive being degraded by jerks and on the other side...learning how to treat others with respect.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

1514 to LAX. They didn't even have water bottles at the seats when we boarded. I wish I booked row 1 for the extra leg room because row 2 sucks. It is just regular economy, actually worse because it is Swoop economy.

I’ve ditched out if buddies trips and flights because I hate flying so much.
Last time my toothpaste was a touch too big, the guy suggested I squeeze out some into the garbage? There is no scale, what? Who cares so I John Elwayed it over the scanner and across the way, as hard as I could to a garbage can where another ctsa worker was standing. 5% chance of getting it in. Would have exploded if I missed and I’d get arrested. I got it in. My kid was so angry at me and wouldn’t talk to me the rest of the flight.

I just avoid getting arrested.

I just get amped up in the airport and the whole process, unreasonably so.

No other place can a business just totally lie to you face and steal from you but by an airport employee. But furthermore there is a police officer right there backing it. It’s mind blowing.