Well after this I don't wanna heat anyone say they can't figure out self check out .
At the Piggly wiggly getting some gumbo ingredients and the line for regular check out is pretty long. No big deal Theirs a self check out well it's moving buy pretty quick. The lady I from of me though is one if those who is just super against self check out. She was yammering the whole time about how she shouldn't have to scan her own stuff that their job, how kids are so lazy that's why they made these how they just need more regular checkouts
yadda yadda yadda. I got ear buds in but I can still here her ranting and raving Well she gets to the scanner and you could see it. She's scoffs fumbles around with her cans of soup , saying how she can't figure it out and how somone should scan it for her she's makin a real show of it. Well she's holding up the line the associate keeps trying to help explain but it's obvious she just wants it to be done for her. She finally just asks for it to be stopped and starts trying to give lecture on the evils of self check out. Again real bit of work. Well now it's open I go to move up and there's a tap on my shoulder. Turn around is one of the Amish types we have around here. Forgot their technical term . Their the ones who can drive and have limited tech but it was obviously one of them. He's looking pretty irritated says " Son may I skip line ? I wanna make a point " I say sure I don't have much neither does he. We walks up looks at the lady and says " Please stop and watch it's really not that hard" scans his few items with her glaring pays and says " See ? So easy even I can do it, you just want to be difficult and make these workers have a harder day. " He takes his bags and walks out leaving this lady looking like she just got slapped with an ugly stick She ended up going to the back of the regular check out line all sulled up
I swear y'all never a dull day

Great story! It would be nice to think the lady learned something from the experience, but I'm betting not.

Ya, I got a buddy that screams about the scanners whenever we go to a store with them. He goes and waits in line forever and I walk over, scan mine real quick and I'm out in the parking lot waiting on him every time.
Amish driving????!?!?
In my neck of the woods they drive horse and buggy/buckboard. Heck they just took the buckle off their hat. Heard of the ones in PA rollerblading and wearing colored clothes but not the ones around here

Cool story , Wolfie.

Maybe the religious term you were looking for was Mennonite ?

Got a story of my own about those things, Wolfy! I'm deaf as a post, see? So, on this extremely rare occasion I encounter one, I genuinely haven't a clue. I try. I try everything I can think of. It's just not happening. And, all the while I'm dimly aware of this mild buzzing.

Finally. I give it best and wander off with my basket, to find a proper cashier to check my stuff out for me, like usual. And there's this young lady in a queue nearby. I have Never forgotten the way she was looking at me. A kind of mixture of pity and wonderment that Anybody could be so thick!

I dimly realised, at that moment, that the 'buzzing' I was hearing would have been an automated 'voice' telling me what to do. I don't look deaf, so this young lady obviously thought I was just ignoring the instructions and was somehow hades bent on trying to do it my own way Really must have thought I was some stubborn old fool.

I try to avoid the self check out, figure it gives someone a job. I will use it if i inly have 2 or 3 things and nothing that needs id like beer or Copenhagen because i feel like i should not hold up the fast lines like that.
Great story too bad i cant see the look on her face.

Self checkout is not difficult but it is not there to help the folks who work in the store. And it will cost folks their jobs because there will be fewer regular checkouts as the self checkouts become more accepted. And there will be no reduction in the price of goods due to the lower labor cost either.

I do not create a scene like the woman did though. I just refuse to use the self checkout.

There are self checkouts in Europe now?

Bingo!

x2

You should see them in Walmart. Never seen Horses so skinny. They sure don't know how to feed their Horses enough .

The first time I saw these self check outs and personal scaners, my wife and I could see the socialist movement behind it. Its part of preparing for a crisis,say for example medical marshal law? Peaple out of work. Send everyone a stimulus check . Don't need to work now, papa guv will take care of me. What no one wants to work. Glad we put in those self check outs, awe shut up rich you sound like a conspiracy theorist.

Decade or more that I know of?

That's Awesome!!!

It's not just grocery and big box stores, Some Gas stations after hours have them, the local airport has a self checkout to get out of the parking lot, and fast food places on the interstates have a kiosk that you order from and pay.I don't care for using a credit card for a couple bucks worth of whatever. I guessing they'll become prevalent seeing how no one wants to work anymore.

The ones in Wolfies story were probably Mennonite. They go by different rules than "true" Amish.

I won't use self checkout, I would if say 5% or 10% discount was given. I will however wait in a line about 5 to 8 minutes, after that I leave my cart in line, or if carrying my goods place them neatly on the floor where I stood in line and walk out. That employee they saved with a self checkout can restock the goods I left.

Just think of all that money that could have been saved if they only put in 6 check outs instead of 26 of them. It's not like more than 6 are ever open at a time anyway.

I have left stuff and walked out too. Self checkout all backed up and only one register open. I rarely shop at walmart now. Only if what I need isnt available someplace else close. I park back at the auto shop. Enter there. Then I get my item or three and check out at the auto desk.

I don't get most people who don't like them. Can bag your stuff the way you want don't have to deal with rude cashiers usually quicker if you have just a few items. I get it if you use cash or need a discount but if it's a card..... Idk I've had a line of 20+ people at work most with only a few items refusing to use the self checkout then complain about the long wait and lack of cashiers. People need to call corporate or something instead of trying to make a point by backing up the lines when there's a convenient option (like seriously not much we can do in the store as far as adding more registers) To get you through quicker. It's honestly no different then pumping your own gas imo. Like if you have a full cart and paying with cash yeah ok but if you have a card please just take your bottle of water and house plant to self check out.

Reminds me of an old guy at work. Was looking confused and asked what the self checkout was I explained he could check him self out here instead of waiting in line and bag his stuff the way he prefered. Showed him how to work the scanner and key pad real quick and he though it was the best thing ever.