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self checkouts are peak neoliberalism
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Feb 24, 2024 21:22
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You wouldn't self checkout a car would you??
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Feb 24, 2024 21:25
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Instead people should be checking each other out.
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Feb 24, 2024 21:27
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thalweg posted:The fred meyer near my house has gone full surveillance cop mode. They put overhead cameras above each self checkout that are presumably always recording. I scanned one of those little plastic containers of rosemary and tossed it into my bag, and it was too light to set off the weight detection or whatever and the machine kept asking me to bag the item. The attendant came over and had to watch the video of me scanning and bagging before he could press the button to let me keep going. drat it's becoming more ethical every day to steal as much poo poo as you can from these fuckers
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Feb 24, 2024 21:42
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How many of you also have those flashing blue light towers in the parking lot of your local Walmart/Target/grocery that mimic a police car?
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Feb 24, 2024 21:47
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Whooping Crabs posted:How many of you also have those flashing blue light towers in the parking lot of your local Walmart/Target/grocery that mimic a police car? There's some of those at the local Lowes and they also emit recorded phrases periodically and have a very police-badge-looking logo and "THIS AREA SECURED BY PD" on them and if you look closely PD means the company name, which is Protection Devices or something like that, real cute
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Feb 24, 2024 21:56
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Whooping Crabs posted:How many of you also have those flashing blue light towers in the parking lot of your local Walmart/Target/grocery that mimic a police car? Ours sits there and periodically yells "THIS IS FOR YOUR SAFETY"
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Feb 24, 2024 22:02
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i attempted to sneak past Kroger Security a rotisserie and they rightfully took my hand as penance. i fought the law and the law won
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Feb 24, 2024 22:13
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Our Walmart has the blue light it's on the sign for the parking spot in front (it used to be the closest handicap spot) reserved for the cops When I worked at home depot everybody hated using self checkout because everything is big and heavy and sucks to scan. They expected the self checkout cashier to help everybody and basically check them out like a regular register, except there were four checkouts and only one attendant so you'd just end up with them helping one customer while the other three were waiting getting mad and waiting for help when they had a problem Also rats made a nest in one of the machines and ate all the wires and pissed all over everything so that was pretty great
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Feb 24, 2024 22:14
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Dog Case posted:Our Walmart has the blue light it's on the sign for the parking spot in front (it used to be the closest handicap spot) reserved for the cops More evidence that rats are comrades
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Feb 24, 2024 22:31
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thalweg posted:The fred meyer near my house has gone full surveillance cop mode. They put overhead cameras above each self checkout that are presumably always recording. I scanned one of those little plastic containers of rosemary and tossed it into my bag, and it was too light to set off the weight detection or whatever and the machine kept asking me to bag the item. The attendant came over and had to watch the video of me scanning and bagging before he could press the button to let me keep going. Fred Meyer is just becoming the most unpleasant place to shop at between this and the perimeter sensors on the shopping carts randomly going off while you’re in the store and making you take out your id so they can physically scan it to by some goddamn NyQuil and now they have armed security guards checking your receipt like it’s Costco but they’re armed The Kroger near my mom’s in the Atlanta suburbs doesn’t have any of this poo poo so it’s definitely regional and not corporate policy
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Feb 25, 2024 00:21
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Fred Meyer is just becoming the most unpleasant place to shop at between this and the perimeter sensors on the shopping carts randomly going off while you’re in the store and making you take out your id so they can physically scan it to by some goddamn NyQuil and now they have armed security guards checking your receipt like it’s Costco but they’re armed Gonna shoot you over a bulk package of poo poo tickets
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Feb 25, 2024 01:16
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HashtagGirlboss posted:It’s always fun when somebody shares an anecdote that they think is going to get them approval but then it turns out oh poo poo people don’t like this and they try to backtrack but are self aware enough to know what they’ve already said and they try to thread the needle when they could just stop posting for a while Just remembered the fucko who posted about not being allowed to wear an American flag pin at work and then everyone making GBS threads on him and his loving pin.
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Feb 25, 2024 01:38
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idk maybe it's just me but being surrounded by cops and cameras when i'm trying to buy a banana seems like a bad sign of the state of things
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Feb 25, 2024 01:50
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Andorra posted:idk maybe it's just me but being surrounded by cops and cameras when i'm trying to buy a banana seems like a bad sign of the state of things gotta pretend the reason service keeps worsening despite prices continually rising is because of shrinkage and "those" people
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Feb 25, 2024 02:51
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Fred Meyer is just becoming the most unpleasant place to shop at between this and the perimeter sensors on the shopping carts randomly going off while you’re in the store and making you take out your id so they can physically scan it to by some goddamn NyQuil and now they have armed security guards checking your receipt like it’s Costco but they’re armed Hey when did they tear down the murder kroger anyway
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Feb 25, 2024 03:35
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Whooping Crabs posted:How many of you also have those flashing blue light towers in the parking lot of your local Walmart/Target/grocery that mimic a police car? Kmart premised an entire company around this
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Feb 25, 2024 03:36
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Kitfox88 posted:gotta pretend the reason service keeps worsening despite prices continually rising is because of shrinkage and "those" people those people as in ceos and shrinkage as in wage theft?
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Feb 25, 2024 03:38
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In Training posted:Hands off the rosemary. Step away from the kiosk. Slowly with your hands behind your head.
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Feb 25, 2024 03:41
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I went to an outlet mall in Florida that had a sheriff’s lookout post on a scissor lift in the parking lot. Strange use of state resources.
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Feb 25, 2024 06:18
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ive only tried self checkout once & it called a cashier over to click a button 3 times for 4 items so i just said gently caress this and went to the regular checkout
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Feb 25, 2024 10:42
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Carthag Tuek posted:ive only tried self checkout once & it called a cashier over to click a button 3 times for 4 items so i just said gently caress this and went to the regular checkout I had a vegetarian meal once, it didn't taste right and I was hungry afterwards, so now I only eat meat based meals. Self checkouts should be great for reducing useless labour, it's just that capitalism doesn't let it work
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Feb 25, 2024 11:06
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Carthag Tuek posted:ive only tried self checkout once & it called a cashier over to click a button 3 times for 4 items so i just said gently caress this and went to the regular checkout this is some three olives alt?
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Feb 25, 2024 12:14
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other people posted:this is some three olives alt? you don't have to be rich to have hassle with self-checkouts
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Feb 25, 2024 12:26
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It was the only having tried it once bit that got me. In my experience there often isn't a choice not to.
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Feb 25, 2024 12:32
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other people posted:It was the only having tried it once bit that got me. In my experience there often isn't a choice not to. Weirdly enough my local Target seems to have a paranoid manager (DM?) because all of the self-checkouts are closed 24/7 and have been for two weeks now. Roped off.
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Feb 25, 2024 12:46
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other people posted:It was the only having tried it once bit that got me. In my experience there often isn't a choice not to. wait are you saying theres stores without human cashiers?? never seen one in denmark
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Feb 25, 2024 12:51
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Didn’t the retailer group come out with a report showing the shop lifting crisis was all bullshit and the lose in shrink was most likely a math error?
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Feb 25, 2024 13:02
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Carthag Tuek posted:wait are you saying theres stores without human cashiers?? never seen one in denmark Føtex often has a choice between gigantic queues or short queue for self checkout? Also self scan in Netto owns when there's a huge queue and you just go right past it.
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Feb 25, 2024 13:04
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BonHair posted:Føtex often has a choice between gigantic queues or short queue for self checkout? Also self scan in Netto owns when there's a huge queue and you just go right past it. it was a netto one i tried & i think the problem may have been that i was buying discounted cold cuts that were near the expiration date, so if that was why it needed a cashier to push a button, i might as well never use it cause i buy those 100% of the time to stick in my freezer
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Feb 25, 2024 13:24
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I live near a supermarket where the locals skew old and rich, and they make a specific point of not having self-service/automated checkouts. Everywhere else is almost all "self" service and it sure looks like it sucks rear end for the one harried clerk who has to babysit a dozen self-checkouts and constantly intervene/override them.
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Feb 25, 2024 14:04
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Epic High Five posted:As long as everything is being recorded, catching you at the time of checkout isn't terribly important. They can just go back months to find some people to prosecute and, true or not, you're left with the choice between somehow proving you didn't steal a banana last June and joining the criminal caste i don't think any municipality will go the lengths you're thinking of to prosecute shoplifting, especially after the fact.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:01
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Milo and POTUS posted:Hey when did they tear down the murder kroger anyway the concept of kroger nicknames has been one of the most confusing cultural adjusments i had to make moving to georgia
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Feb 25, 2024 15:05
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Carthag Tuek posted:it was a netto one i tried & i think the problem may have been that i was buying discounted cold cuts that were near the expiration date, so if that was why it needed a cashier to push a button, i might as well never use it cause i buy those 100% of the time to stick in my freezer The aldi nearest my house has self-checkouts but they have this exact problem. Can't use them (without assistance) if you're buying anything with a discount sticker on it. Real pain in the arse. Coles and woolworths have no issue setting it up so that discount stickers scan at the self-checkouts, aldi's just weird about checkouts; they also do this thing where they're constantly opening and closing them and an announcement will tell you to start lining up at checkout three or whatever but there's no one there - and they might be there in half a minute or you might be waiting five minutes while the announcement keeps telling people to start lining up at checkout three. But on the other hand, aldi's own brand products scan so amazingly easily at self-checkout. Barcodes on every side so you don't even need to look, just swipe them through and it works practically every time. Unlike the other supermarkets where you've got to locate the barcode and find the perfect angle where the machine deigns tor read it. Also aldi's self-checkouts don't get impatient with you and tell you to take your shopiing sixty times a second while you're busy putting it into your bags.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:10
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I used a self-checkout once and it swallowed my bottle deposit receipt.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:13
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i used self checkout and didnt appreciate how the machine leered at me
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Feb 25, 2024 15:17
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I want all machines to look at me like Atorox looks at women. On-topic: when I was considering the 2000s as a child, I never imagined how much of my income I'd have to spend on god drat toilet paper in 2024. No don't reply with what you want to reply with. 3D Megadoodoo has issued a correction as of 15:21 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Feb 25, 2024 15:18
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a few years ago I lived near a grocery store with a self-scan thing, and it was great. they just gave you a little handheld dealie and whenever you put something new in your cart you’d scan it right there. then at checkout you’d just have it send the whole list you’d built up to their system and be done in under a minute. but it was probably too easy to steal from for some pencil pusher’s liking, no scale for weight checks or anything, because I’ve never seen it since
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Feb 25, 2024 15:20
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World War Mammories posted:a few years ago I lived near a grocery store with a self-scan thing, and it was great. they just gave you a little handheld dealie and whenever you put something new in your cart you’d scan it right there. then at checkout you’d just have it send the whole list you’d built up to their system and be done in under a minute. but it was probably too easy to steal from for some pencil pusher’s liking, no scale for weight checks or anything, because I’ve never seen it since A lot of b2b shops work this way.
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Feb 25, 2024 15:23
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Kitfox88 posted:DROP THE AVOCADO. YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY. ED$2.99
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