Remember before self checkout when you had to wait in line while 1 or 2 people on duty checked you out? Hope we aren't going back to that.
I feel like I'm going crazy when I read comments online about the people who love self check out. Unless you're going into an unpopular CVS to buy a single soda on a hot day, it nearly always takes the same time with more work or longer to check out.
A grocery store with non barcoded produce in self check out is basically the worst a shopping experience can be. Especially now that stores realize many of the biggest lovers of self check out were people who used it to steal so everything requires a double check if anything is off by more then a gram.
Completely disagree. Self checkout is much faster 90% of the time in my experience. Even when there is literally zero line for the cashier self checkout tends to be faster for me.
Grow some patience and empathy. Someone who is penny pinching deserves your respect. Someone who is unable (or perhaps unwilling) to use technology also does.
If you go into a grocery store and aren't patient for those around you... well maybe you should be paying the premium to purchase your groceries online and have them delivered to you. Then you don't have to worry about the extra five minutes it takes for granny-not-yours to write out a check whose sum total is a significantly large chunk of their social security for the month.
It is not penny pinching, it is simply keeping the coinage in their purse light.
It is not from frugality that some people wait until the cashier is giving them the total that they start writing out their check including date, recipient, and purpose.
It is why I prefer the self checkout line, and I do my best not to slow down the people behind me so that they do not have to wait an extra 5 minutes for me.
Still, rising theft — part of what retailers call "shrink" — is the primary reason self-checkout is being ditched in some stores and restricted in others, according to Saunders.