Self Scan at grocery stores

[Centurion1]

not all of them actually.

[Major Robert Dump]

The good ole days was when you could feed the things any coupons you had, regardless of whether you were actually buying those items. This was a nightmare when I was a supercenter manager

And fairly soon they will be able to just "Scan the cart." Chips are small enough to go into bar codes and cheap enough to produce en masse that there is no noticable difference in food costs if you can buy in bulk. Wal Mart is already testing them. Cashier is not a very good career choice at the moment if you are looking for longevity

[Hosakawa Tito]

Perhaps if they paid me for saving them labor costs I'd use them. I'm usually out of the store before 9am so lines aren't a problem for me. What's next, unloading the trucks & stocking their shelves. Besides, what are all you highschool & college grads going to do for jobs?

[Major Robert Dump]

High School kids don't work anymore, that is child abuse, didn't ya hear?

As far as the shelf stocking thing in exchange for a doscount, you are onto something.

[Reenk Roink]

When you buy ONE pack of Ben and Jerry's Mud Pie to pass through the hottest day of the heat wave, quickly before rush hour starts, during the freaking art fair which congests things more, and some lady has decided to finally take care of her personal hygiene and buy a bunch of toiletries (including one bottle of KY Jelly rofl), but although every item she has is of a similar size and shape, she cannot help but trying every wrong possible combination of scanning positions EVERY SINGLE TIME.

I swear, I rarely use them anyway because I usually shop once/twice a week and buy everything I need then, but whenever I go I always get stuck behind some real-life troll...

[gaelic cowboy]

there a brilliant invention especially if you only wanted say a loaf and two litre of milk, in and out nice and quick

[A Nerd]

I am one of those shoppers that shop not during peak hours. The express lane and even the lanes that one would enter with alot of groceries are usually unoccupied or have just one person in them. Besides, all the stores I have been to that supply self check out lines always have a store associate standing there to help you out if you should have a problem. I am afraid to use them though, old fashioned shopping is where it's at as far as I am concerned.

I worked in a supermarket deli once. I didn't like it. Lasted all of a week or so. Would have prefered the bakery.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Some of them are poorly designed anyhow but still, some people....

[Ice]

This thread amuses me. I couldn't scan the tiny barcode on ground meat tonight. I could tell the people in line were getting angry.