Not to mention it takes twice as long because you’re unloading an entire trolley onto a space that holds maybe 4 items, you’re scanning, and you’re bagging. There’s no area to actually work and put all your shit, this doesn’t even include the 4-12 times you need the person to come fix the broken machine, but that 1 person is busy fixing 4 other people’s broken machines.
Something that would take you and a professional working together 5 minutes ends up taking 10+ minutes
Wait, you guys have to unload everything at the register and scan it there?! No wonder you hate that shit. In Sweden we have a portable scanner that we bring with us through the store, and you can remove stuff yourself. Removes most of the hassle. There might still be items that need checking or an ID check, but the former usually doesn’t take long, and the latter they can do remotely if you look way above the required age. Saves a shit ton of time, since there’s very often a queue at the regular registers.
They look like this and if you can something and don’t put it on the platform to the left it it complains. Sometimes it decides the weight doesn’t add up for some reason and then you “UNEXPECTED ITEMS IN THE BAGGING AREA” … Often once it has decided this it requires… You guessed it, me getting the attention of the clerk who is busy trying to keep 10 - 15 other kiosks moving and each kiosk is doing the same bullshit to everyone.
I have absolutely never had that experience, it’s always the opposite. I’m in, I’m out. The good thing is, if you don’t like self-check you can go through the clerk line and vice versa.
There is a severe lack of space if you’re getting a lot of items and no good way to remove full bags without the thing yelling at you.
I used to scan and bag groceries in high school and the scanners on the self checkout slow me down significantly as well. Constantly flagging items as not bagged if I scan the next item too fast (even when bagged) or for not scanning items if I dare have something in my right hand while bagging with my left.
And yeah, I’ll avoid the one line with a human where they’re 4 deep with 50 items each wanting to pay with checks still.
Years ago they used to do that here. If they did that now though, with only one register with a person, you’d easily be waiting 20 - 30 minutes to check out.
If you have an entire trolley that takes five minutes to process at a regular checkout, please don’t use the self-checkout. It’s not intended for large volumes. I put my basket that holds six, seven items on the space that holds a basket, put my bag in the other side and move it smoothly from basket over scanner to bag. Very rarely, I’ll need help or make a mistake.
Most of the time, I’m hardly slower than the cashier, except for the part where they ask me about whatever club membership and app and how I wanna pay and then activate the terminal, where I’m much faster. I just click “done”, “no, thanks” and swipe my card.
If you have more than like three things get the hell out of the self-checkout lane. I’m so sick of being behind a person getting fifteen different kinds of produce that all need to be entered manually while I wait with my single gallon of milk.
Supermarkets in my area have had separate basket and trolley self-checkout areas for a good while. Basket ones are what you describe, trolley ones have enough space for a trolley on one side and about three or four times as much packing area on the other
Not to mention it takes twice as long because you’re unloading an entire trolley onto a space that holds maybe 4 items, you’re scanning, and you’re bagging. There’s no area to actually work and put all your shit, this doesn’t even include the 4-12 times you need the person to come fix the broken machine, but that 1 person is busy fixing 4 other people’s broken machines.
Something that would take you and a professional working together 5 minutes ends up taking 10+ minutes
Wait, you guys have to unload everything at the register and scan it there?! No wonder you hate that shit. In Sweden we have a portable scanner that we bring with us through the store, and you can remove stuff yourself. Removes most of the hassle. There might still be items that need checking or an ID check, but the former usually doesn’t take long, and the latter they can do remotely if you look way above the required age. Saves a shit ton of time, since there’s very often a queue at the regular registers.
https://theshelbyreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Cardenas-Self-Checkout.jpg
They look like this and if you can something and don’t put it on the platform to the left it it complains. Sometimes it decides the weight doesn’t add up for some reason and then you “UNEXPECTED ITEMS IN THE BAGGING AREA” … Often once it has decided this it requires… You guessed it, me getting the attention of the clerk who is busy trying to keep 10 - 15 other kiosks moving and each kiosk is doing the same bullshit to everyone.
I have absolutely never had that experience, it’s always the opposite. I’m in, I’m out. The good thing is, if you don’t like self-check you can go through the clerk line and vice versa.
Haha that’s the thing though. Fewer and fewer stores have a normal checkout line anymore. It’s self checkout or go fuck yourself
There is a severe lack of space if you’re getting a lot of items and no good way to remove full bags without the thing yelling at you.
I used to scan and bag groceries in high school and the scanners on the self checkout slow me down significantly as well. Constantly flagging items as not bagged if I scan the next item too fast (even when bagged) or for not scanning items if I dare have something in my right hand while bagging with my left.
And yeah, I’ll avoid the one line with a human where they’re 4 deep with 50 items each wanting to pay with checks still.
Stores vary. In mine there’s ample bagging space and the self-check limit is 15 items anyway.
Years ago they used to do that here. If they did that now though, with only one register with a person, you’d easily be waiting 20 - 30 minutes to check out.
Go to Publix.
If you have an entire trolley that takes five minutes to process at a regular checkout, please don’t use the self-checkout. It’s not intended for large volumes. I put my basket that holds six, seven items on the space that holds a basket, put my bag in the other side and move it smoothly from basket over scanner to bag. Very rarely, I’ll need help or make a mistake.
Most of the time, I’m hardly slower than the cashier, except for the part where they ask me about whatever club membership and app and how I wanna pay and then activate the terminal, where I’m much faster. I just click “done”, “no, thanks” and swipe my card.
If you have more than like three things get the hell out of the self-checkout lane. I’m so sick of being behind a person getting fifteen different kinds of produce that all need to be entered manually while I wait with my single gallon of milk.
Supermarkets in my area have had separate basket and trolley self-checkout areas for a good while. Basket ones are what you describe, trolley ones have enough space for a trolley on one side and about three or four times as much packing area on the other