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surprise, Amazon’s godawful surveillance grocery stores were just exploiting hidden labor and calling it innovation, and even that was too expensive
even worse, the few times I’ve seen one of these fucking things in the wild, it still had 1-2 employees hovering near the entrance to make sure nobody did the utterly obvious (fuck with the payment system and get free shit), a job that’s also known as a fucking cashier, but with much worse pay, much harder labor (physically stopping shoplifters), and no counter to lean on or opportunity to even sit down
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the only “self-check-out” system I have ever liked is:
- I have the store app on my phone.
- I scan the items with my phone app as I grab them off the shelves.
- I then tell the app, “ok, i’m ready to pay for these”
- it runs the charge digitally.
no waiting in a queue,
no ‘place the item back in the bagging area’,
no stuffing bills into slots,
no ‘follow the instructions on the pin pad’.
I’m already done!
Self-checkouts in the UK have a vital use case much in demand from the populace: they save the British from ever having to talk to another person. Probably for the best for everyone really.
I never had an issue with the one near me. Saw maybe 5 staff in the building. Is a bit more expensive than a traditional grocery store.
Honestly, grocery stores have turned to ass due to the fact they’re taking out the automated checker while only having 1-2 live cashier. Fuck ifi want to spend 20-30 minutes waiting in a line.
congratulations on most comprehensively missing the point. some people have to work at it, but you look to be a natural!
you’ve waited 20-30 minutes in line at a grocery store?
Yes. Lines going from the front check out to the back milk fridges. Some real bullshit.
I’m astonished, I’ve never seen that anywhere or heard of it happening before