Self Checkout or Cashier?

[bigmerle1966]

You know, speaking of self checkout, anyone been to IKEA lately. I just went a couple weeks ago and they had mainly self-checkout. There were two cashiers helping out but everyone had to do it themselves.

 

[My2Cinderellas]

Hate self checkout on so many levels. If they want me to do their job for them, I need a hefty financial incentive.

The few times I've tried to do self checkout it was always a fiasco. I'd find the one item in the store where the barcode didn't register, or have some kind of machine error.

The best use of self scan checkout was around the holidays when my local store put a checker at each one and used them as a regular checkout!

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I love the self checkouts. Most of the time when I go grocery shopping I'm only getting no more than 10 items, which seems to be the optimal item count for those things. More than that and I use the cashier line.

The only thing I hate is how the self checkouts at Kroger differ from the ones at Ukrops (local chain here in Richmond). At Ukrops if I put a paper bag on the platform for the checked items, it will prompt a touch button to let the machine know the extra weight is a bag. Kroger doesn't have that option; heck, they don't even have paper bags at the self checkouts. I prefer the paper bags since we use them as trash bags.

And I wish Target would get with the program and put some in their stores.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

I usually do self checkout. I can move faster than many of the cashiers I've seen. It's just the idiots that have no idea what they're doing that go to the self checkout that sometimes ticks me off.

 

[MM27]

I love self checkouts. I prefer doing my own scanning and bagging than having someone else touch my stuff.

 

[bigmerle1966]

See those weighted kind of checkouts are stupid. The one we have at the Superfresh up the road has a belt, just like a regular checkout, that you put the stuff on and it rolls under a detector.

 

[Cindy B]

My Shoprite has self checkouts but I usually have more than the allotted items.

One BJ's has self checkout but my "usual" one does not -- (and it could use a few self checkouts)

Walmart has them and I can't use coupons with it so it's really not worth it.

 

[Camicar]

I refuse to use those self check outs. I have never had one single experience where they saved me one second of time and they usually use MORE time.

Moreover it's just one more way for businesses to cut services while not cutting prices. Finally, I am very concerned about the continuing loss of low-skill jobs. Not everyone is cut out to have a profesional or technical job.It used to be those people could get GOOD factory jobs. Not any more and here we are decreasing the number of even minimum wage jobs available for them. It's impossilbe to support yourself on a minimum wage job and every year there are fewer and fewer of them, contributing to the rise of a permanent underclass. Not gonna be a part of that exacerbating that problem.

 

[dizzy203]

I don't mind using the self checkout. I usually get out faster when I do it myself.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Walmart has them and I can't use coupons with it so it's really not worth it.

You can use them at my Wal-Mart. I do quite often.

 

[Carly_Roach]

Another self-checkout person here. I'll use it for big orders or little orders (our Meijer's here has both the 10 item ones and the belt ones). I'm typically much faster than the cashier and can bag the way I want. Get in, get my groceries, get out.

I did use a cashier the other day - but that's because the line for self-checkouts were abysmally long. In that case, I got out faster using the cashier.

Whatever gets me out the door the fastest, that's the way I'm going.

 

[SeaSpray]

I will never use a self-checkout, as a matter of principle. As long as there are teenagers (or anyone, for that matter) who need a job, I'll stand in line for a cashier as long as it takes.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Cashier.....especially now, wouldn't want to think anyone else may be let go.

Exactly! When the economy was better, I used them b/c it's kind of fun to do it myself, but now that it's so hard for people to find jobs, I always go cashier, b/c I don't want anyone to be let go to make room for MORE self-checkout. (Except at one store that used to always have 2 lanes open and long, long lines. Now they have 1 cashier lane and 1 cashier working 4 self-checkouts. And NO lines. )

 

[Kathi OD]

I don't like self checkouts.

If I am doing someone else's job I should get a discount.

 

[PollyannaMom]

The first time we ever used one, it wouldn't work, a manager had to come and put a code in, and it took us 3 times longer than a regular line! Since then I have avoided them.

I was starting to feel kind of chicken for not trying again, but the comments about helping people keep their jobs make me feel better.

 

[Pigeon]

Cashier all the way. When the store starts sending me a paycheck, I'll scan my own groceries.

 

[scrapquitler]

Not only do I use the self checkout (no need to interact with people that way!) but I also use the little self-scan gun to scan and bag my groceries as I stick them in my cart! Now nobody can see what kinds of junk I am buying! LOL>

 

[georgina]

I love the self-checkouts. I feel a little guilty walking by an empty line to do my own, but I prefer it. It is much easier for me to see errors when I scan it myself, and there are often errors in the price. Someone usually comes to bag my stuff while I am checking out, I would prefer to bag my own too.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I hate self-checkouts. Unless I'm only buying one or two things, I go to a cashier.

 

[Kycha]

Cashier mainly. When I am shopping, I invariably have a ton of coupons. The self checkout scanners around here usually limit the number of coupons you can scan(usually 4). Any more than that, and you need customer assistance.