Self Checkout

stay out of that line so us competent people can get our **** and be on our way.
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As long as the machines are working and I don't have to look up the produce code for a Cambodian pineapple (or whatever exotic thing) I like them a lot.
 
All I can say is - if we are going to have to start doing everything ourselves, then we sure as hell better see a drop in prices, since there's no need for as many cashiers.


Of course, that'll be the day...

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Perham, I am going to assume you shop at HEB (which could be way wrong) but don't you label your fruit/veggies on the scales in the produce department? I really like that HEB has it set up that way so that the produce has a bar code to be scanned at checkout.
 
I finally figured out that our HEB has those bar code printers.

Of course, our HEB doesn't have self-checkout, but hey, it's a step in the right direction.
 
Perham, there are 2 HEBS close to me, and one has them and one doesn't. The closest one is the one that doesn't have them, but we usually go to the other one, it is a world of difference in general.
I hope they get those things installed for you.
 
I use it when there isn't a line for it. I have been behind some self checkers that made the slowest regular checkers looks amazingly fast.
 
The first few times I was strongly dissuaded by barcode issues, but now I love it.

Swip the item fast, bag it up, pay and go.

No interaction with a cashier, just you and an inanimate monochrome machine.
 
I love self check lanes.

I'm always finding money in the change slot.

And I don't mean coins..
 
I love it too. I bagged in high school. Watching some slow *** incompetent bagger drives me crazy.

What I hate is HEB's "would you like fries with that" **** that the cashiers have to do now.

Even worse I was in a Kroger the other day with a flat screen on every aisle pitching some product. It was so annoying I left.
 
I used to work at an Albertsons in Arlington and we got them installed while i was there...So i know everything about how they work and ill use them every chance i get...
 
I agree, yak. But I can see it pains the cashiers to have to ask you the extra stuff. So I play along with them. If they ask me if I want the Suave Shampoo, Conditioner and Lotion package I respond with, "No thanks, I don't like to bathe or have soft skin". I keep a straight face so when they look up I can then smile. They laugh and it breaks the humdrum.

I like self check if I only have a few items and by few I mean under ten.
 
I love them in conjunction with the produce/bar code printers. I use them almost every time I'm in the store.

With that said, they still seem to have too many "issues" than they should. It seems like 40% of the time, I still have to have the clerk come over to fix something or override that **** about "placing item in bag" when it doesn't work.

I was in an HEB in Laredo about 6 weeks ago that had no self check out and no bar code printers. I felt like it was the 1800's.
 
I'll use whatever checkout method is the quickest. Some people working the normal checkout counter are slow, but I've also seen people with full carts using the self-checkout.

A friend of mine told me all of those people doing that are just stealing, and I thought he was being cynical. But, I actually asked a checkout girl about that once, and she told me that stealing from the self-checkout happens quite a bit and that anyone going in there with a full cart (or two) is a red flag for security.
 
The only bad thing about self-checkout is some guy taking for ever to check out his 3 items.

Otherwise, it is great. The audio prompt gets no chance to even start as I am ahead of it.
 
I accidently stole a can of soup by using the self-checkout at Wal-Mart one time. So next time I'm in there I grab a can and went through the cashier line. I told clerky to ring me up twice on the can of soup because I accidently took one last time I was in. She looks at me like a crazy, but after telling her 2-3 more times, she finally rings me up. I guess I suck at checking.
 
What Ramathorn said is what I am talking about. I scan my 1 single serrano pepper and throw it in the bag and the **** jams up because it weighs so little that the thing doesn't know I put it there. Either that or the beer doesn't fit down there or it simply doesn't realize that I set the **** down. Then you have to wait for the clerk which almost negates the usage of it. I still use them and like them, but I just find them to be not up to snuff yet for the amount of time they've been in use.

I aways wondered at Central Market why a person wouldn't just grab the mushrooms that are like $85/pound and use the code of the $.99/pound mushrooms to ring it up. I had a buddy work there and he said people steal (just walk out with) stuff CONSTANTLY.
 
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