Self Checkout (1 Viewer)

[itztime]

The Sam's club I shop at has that, but my buggy is usually filled with heavy items, so I need 2 hands on the buggy to push, so the phone is impractical.

How does one load items into buggy without stopping and placing items into buggy without hands ? I feel you though, I use the Scan and go app and it does get a little cumbersome with those large items and trying not to drop the phone. I life hacked it though, I scan the item before picking it up, if practical, shove phone in back pocket, grab item and place in the buggy. Wifey pooh hates Sams, the large crowds aggrivate her, so I am on my own to load and scan.

 

[Madmarsha]

The voice in the one at Harris Teeter has an attitude. I’m like “birch don’t tell me what to do.”

Heee, your store is named Teet. (Yes, I am familiar with the chain. Been in one ... once. But I am 12)

 

[Madmarsha]

Trader Joe’s doesn’t have them but their employees are more than content to let customers bag their own ish.

I do not work there. Not doing your job for you!

Watching your groceries getting bagged at Trader Joe's is like stepping back in time. They were TRAINED how to bag groceries.

Aldi's doesn't bag, they just place everything back in the buggy. But nicely.

 

[Madmarsha]

I hate how when you do cash back at the self-checkout there's no way to tell the machine what denomination to give you.

Also, when the bags are clumped together and you stand there fiddling with them to get it open.

I hate the built-in camera. I don't like seeing my face from that angle.

I always look worried. Like a person wary of being kidnapped.

It also makes me uneasy to feel the attendant's eyes on my back to make sure I don't steal anything.

It makes me want to fight them.

I love you and think I've gotten to know you fairly well enough to know that exactly NONE of this surprises me. In a good way.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Trader Joe’s doesn’t have them but their employees are more than content to let customers bag their own ish.

I do not work there. Not doing your job for you!

the one in NO/Metairie makes that impractical - the checkout lanes are too narrow so they almost have to have baggers )most lanes have both a clerk and a bagger)

 

[CoolBrees]

Yeah I have been to the Amazon Fresh -

You scan when you get a cart and that is it. You just put stuff in the cart and it adds it. Then charges your Prime on the way out the door.

No cashier or registers even

 

[ThibodauxSaint]

I like self checkout. The least amount of human interaction, especially with strangers, the better. My only complaint is that if a store is going to go self checkout they need to go all in. Nothing irritates me more than having to wait in long lines because only the self checkouts are open and there are 30 regular registers not even being used. Just as soon make everything self checkout instead wasting space with unused registers.

 

[ChrisinNOLA]

Circle K has em now. At least the one in Denham Springs does.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

I don't mind bagging my own, in fact I'm particular about how my groceries get bagged. Not a fan of the bored 17yr old slinging my stuff without thought into the bag. Esp if I'm 45min away from home and I want my cold items to stay cold.

Have you been to Trader Joe’s? Their cashiers are all late 20’s - early 30’s pretentious hipsters who act like they make loads more money than me & im just some peasant.

 

[kizzy821]

The bags clumping together is 100 percent accurate. Someone needs to invent a more user-friendly way to have the plastic bags loaded/unloaded. First, it is wasteful when you grab a bunch and toss them to the side. Second, it can be time consuming to sit there and try to pry a bag open.

Whoever fixes this should also address the produce baggies sticking together. I'm not licking my fingers to open a bag, lol. Maybe place a container of that stuff folks used to use instead of licking stamps.

A trick I learned for the produce bags is to first touch another piece of cold produce (doesn't have to be wet, just cold), then you're able to immediately open the bag.

I never thought to try it at the self-checkout, but I'm sure it works on those bags too. You just have to remember to leave something cold in the basket and not ring it up till the end.

 

[Optimus Prime]

A trick I learned for the produce bags is to first touch another piece of cold produce (doesn't have to be wet, just cold), then you're able to immediately open the bag.

I never thought to try it at the self-checkout, but I'm sure it works on those bags too. You just have to remember to leave something cold in the basket and not ring it up till the end.

I learned that trick during the pandemic and I was masked up and couldn’t lick my fingers

 

[gboudx]

For produce bags, I learned to buy reusable, washable bags.

 

[buzd]

For produce bags, I learned to buy reusable, washable bags.

I just put the produce in the cart, sans bag.

 

[gboudx]

I do that for some things too. I won’t do that for stuff you could basically eat without pealing off a “skin”. Even though I still wash it, its just a mental thing. Stuff like broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, celery, apples, nope. Bananas, avocados, garlic, onion, sure.

 

[buzd]

I do that for some things too. I won’t do that for stuff you could basically eat without pealing off a “skin”. Even though I still wash it, its just a mental thing. Stuff like broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, celery, apples, nope. Bananas, avocados, garlic, onion, sure.

Don't care. I loathe plastic bags.