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While I often prefer self checkout for small purchases, the counter-shrink measures at make the entire experience worse -- locked up products, weird checkpoints after you finish purchasing, etc.
(Only used it because I bought an electronic with a security hockey puck that had to be unlocked.)
Their TV ad made was so cool, so well done and so "I want to live in this world" that became one of my favorites even today:
I love self-checkout, honestly. Machines need to improve, but still. There's a store here where u simply DROP all items in the self-checkout basket, and it automatically computes everything! I suspect it uses NFC or similar, but it works, and its wonderful, simply drop everything in! And wait, there's more: did I say drop everything in? I meant, the bag you are using to hold everything? just put it in that basket, in…
But groceries are one of the best examples of where this would be a big time-saver.
I will say that I really do prefer self-check in convenience stores, where a big purchase is three or four items. But for groceries... it's too much if you're actually doing a big shopping day.
> The biggest problem is theft. Not only is it easy to steal from self-checkout machines, it can be hard not to steal from them. This is me. At a Walmart this weekend the machine booped instead of beeped, and I didn't get that meant it didn't scan, and dropped the item into a bag. An employee was watching and swooped right in and fixed it. But paying that much attention meant that she might as well have checked me ou…
> The biggest problem is theft. Not only is it easy to steal from self-checkout machines, it can be hard not to steal from them. This is me. At a Walmart this weekend the machine booped instead of beeped, and I didn't get that meant it didn't scan, and dropped the item into a bag. An employee was watching and swooped right in and fixed it. But paying that much attention meant that she might as well have checked me ou…
Around here, whenever there's any sort of problem with self checkout, the employees don't even try to diagnose the problem. They're not paid enough to bother. Recently, a self checkout machine started beeping because I had used an e-coupon that exceeded the total price of all the items by a couple of pennies. It appeared to generate a receipt, but still wanted me to wait. Cashier comes over, looks at the receipt, ent…