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Yep, and my stuff was protected. Been doing it since at least 1995.
You have been financing crime.
Every tax dollar you pay finances one human crime or another.
How do we pay for parking?
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Re: How do we pay for parking?
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This is common all over the developing world. I always give them a little something, despite the feel of extortion it has to it. It’s marginally better than begging, and they will really watch the car, and often help with parking and leaving. Fair enough.
In the one of the Third world countries I lived in, the more attentive ones would also put a piece of cardboard on your windshield. A nice touch. Not so much the guys that insist on spraying your windshield with soap at every traffic light.
“Soap”
Re: How do we pay for parking?
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a great observation. Corporations just keeping pushing costs, infrastructure, features, quality assurance, and even testing onto regular people and customers. We're everybody's little compute engine.
Self-checkout groceries: wow, what an insult that I should have to train myself as a cashier at every store I shop, and further insult that you can't employ deserving humans for it. Interestingly, the move to place the POS in front of the customer rather than handing our cards to the cashier, is a valiant effort to make things more secure and efficient, I suppose, so I kind of approve of this change, although it some…
If done right, self check-out is awesome. When I shop at BJs I arrange everything in my cart with its barcode visible as I shop. Then I go use one of the “10 item or less” checkouts that had a handheld scanner and count my items, then scan them all. Their kiosk supports contactless payments, and I can get through with a full load of groceries way faster than the “trained” cashier this way. And I don’t have to let someone else touch my stuff or put it on a conveyor that everyone else’s stuff has ridden on. Contrast this with the local Publix where there are tons of workers flying around but you end up held hostage by “friendly” aka overly-conversational cashiers half the time, and all your groceries hit the conveyor, the cashier’s hands (which also handle money) and the bagger’s hands (which also touch every cart left in the parking lot). When I shop at there I feel like I need to sanitize my groceries when I get home.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
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A 6 minute video weighting at about 150MiB for "explaining" what can be summarized in a couple sentences of text is another particular version of hell.
No, that's just every single youtube ever made. It's what x2 playback exist for.
You still have to download all of 150MiB for absolutely nothing.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
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Self-checkout groceries: wow, what an insult that I should have to train myself as a cashier at every store I shop, and further insult that you can't employ deserving humans for it. Interestingly, the move to place the POS in front of the customer rather than handing our cards to the cashier, is a valiant effort to make things more secure and efficient, I suppose, so I kind of approve of this change, although it some…
If done right, self check-out is awesome. When I shop at BJs I arrange everything in my cart with its barcode visible as I shop. Then I go use one of the “10 item or less” checkouts that had a handheld scanner and count my items, then scan them all. Their kiosk supports contactless payments, and I can get through with a full load of groceries way faster than the “trained” cashier this way. And I don’t have to let som…
Tell me about it; quarantine and sanitizing groceries became a minor thing in the pandemic. And I still feel like quarantine and inspection is a good idea to prevent introducing pests, although I was shouted down the last time I suggested it.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
Self-checkout groceries: wow, what an insult that I should have to train myself as a cashier at every store I shop, and further insult that you can't employ deserving humans for it. Interestingly, the move to place the POS in front of the customer rather than handing our cards to the cashier, is a valiant effort to make things more secure and efficient, I suppose, so I kind of approve of this change, although it some…
If done right, self check-out is awesome. When I shop at BJs I arrange everything in my cart with its barcode visible as I shop. Then I go use one of the “10 item or less” checkouts that had a handheld scanner and count my items, then scan them all. Their kiosk supports contactless payments, and I can get through with a full load of groceries way faster than the “trained” cashier this way. And I don’t have to let som…
You still have to put it in the bagging area though. Every machine self checkout I have used waits until the expected weight is added before allowing the next item to be scanned.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
If done right, self check-out is awesome. When I shop at BJs I arrange everything in my cart with its barcode visible as I shop. Then I go use one of the “10 item or less” checkouts that had a handheld scanner and count my items, then scan them all. Their kiosk supports contactless payments, and I can get through with a full load of groceries way faster than the “trained” cashier this way. And I don’t have to let som…
You still have to put it in the bagging area though. Every machine self checkout I have used waits until the expected weight is added before allowing the next item to be scanned.
Not at BJs. I can scan them in the cart without ever moving them.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
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Oh, have you seen the number of self checkout at grocery stores? I need to do the work of a checkout counter person to pay? Wtf!
Actually as a consumer I prefer self check out. I am much quicker and it is more efficient because now you can have many of these tills in the same area that only a few would have fit, resulting in much faster experience than waiting in queues. That experience aside, I don't believe there should be jobs where you simply don't think. Manual labour jobs are unfair because they don't reward the brain whatsoever, no crea…
You are much faster than a professional cashier? Congrats I guess.
Also the space argument doesn't hold up. The cash register belts are not need on staffed registers if they are not needed on customer slaving ones. So they are approximately the same size minus the chair for one helpful human.