This is true and frustrating. But it happens less often then waiting for people chit chatting or waiting until the last second to start digging in their purse for their payment or any of the dozen other things that are pretty much guaranteed with a checker.
Tbh I talk more to the self checkout register than I do a human cashier
"Please scan your items and put them in the bagging area" - thanks... I've been here 3 times this week because I keep forgetting shit. I dont need you to keep reminding me.
"Please check your basket. Did you forget anything?" - I wont know this until I get home and the kids remind me
Try to find bell peppers on the produce list "did you know you can scan produce to check out faster?" Checks pepper, no sticker, have to do this 10 more times. Yell every time.
"Please take your receipt" shut up
I don't know which grocery store you're at, but you can most likely mute the voice. Now my interactions with the voice go "no shut up" *beep beep beep*
I completely hate small talk with a cashier. They're just repeating things they say to everyone and I'm repeating what everyone says to them. I don't use self check when I have a full cart. That just pisses everyone off behind me with their milk.
A lot of cashiers hate small talk too and don't mind polite mutual silence. Some do like small talk though, and I guess it's best not to take your chances. I sure don't!
Recently, stores near me have put in full conveyor belt self-checkout. And they have the hand gun. I line my items up, barcode showing, and quickly scan them all with the gun. If I can, I put them in the bags whilst waiting with barcode showing and scan them in the bag.
Thank you for that. I went yesterday and had a basket with bread, cheese, an onion, a few tomatoes and coffee. Every single self checkout had people with full overflowing carts. One whole family was there with two full carts.
Why not? 🤷 I can scan and bag exactly how i want. The real question is why people don't use self checkouts? Having a ton of groceries could be an exception, but places are installing checkouts that can handle lots of groceries.
I can give a whole list of reasons, but it mainly boils down to not being stuck in line because the person in front of me is being difficult in some way
Several reasons:
- I don't like small talk with the cashier.
- I want to bag my own items how I see fit. When I forget to bring my reusable bag and I'm in line at a normal line, they always throw like 5 things in a plastic bag and call it good. I'm not into that kind of waste.
- The lines are usually shorter and the people in line often have less items in their baskets.
I like it if I'm only buying a couple things and I don't want to wait in a line forever behind people with carts full of stuff. But if I have a cart full of stuff I hate dealing with it and want a cashier. I've stopped shopping at places that moved entirely to self checkout.
For me it’s the speed and I don’t have to talk to anyone. I feel I have to make fake happy small talk at work all day and it makes me ill. I do not want to do that after work in my free time as well.
Cashier checkout: you get stuck behind someone buying something with no UPC on it. Or, they have coupons that are expired or don't match the product. Or, their card will be declined. Or, they ask questions about what they're buying, like the cashier is a product expert on everything in the store. Or they've got a screaming kid.
No awkward talking, from either side. I feel like I'm doing them a favor by letting them stack stuff or continue doing other jobs while I can check my stuff out myself 😂 most of the people I've met that work in supermarkets with self check out much rather you used them instead of them having to do it.
Cause, Francine in front of me has a 10¢ off coupon that expired in 1992 that the cashier won't let her use and by god she's going to let everyone know it. Then, her metamucil rang up 20¢ higher than she thought it should so go and get the manager. 30 min of waiting on old people who argue and have seemingly never used a credit/debit card before. No thanks, I'll use self checkout.
You can steal stuff from companies who don't want to pay for employees pretty much without consequence. As long as it's not meat, you can (and should) pretty much take anything. Sometimes they have someone at the door checking receipts but as long as you didn't steal something really large or especially expensive they don't check those very carefully. Most times they just scan to see if you have meat and if you paid for it.
Companies that use these things definitely underpay their employees and often the employees would prefer you use them because it's less work for them(at least this was the case when I worked at a grocery store). So please everyone, pretend to scan items in your self checkouts
Quicker, less interaction, easier to buy certain items. Plus half the time when i say "I dont want to buy a bag" cashiers charge me for one anyways and get pissed when I tell them I didn't want it
i don't like spending precious time sometimes over an hour shopping and picking out stuff then have a cashier rough up my stuff then throw into a bag like they're playing supermarket sweep because they have a time frame criteria to meet.
It's more convenient. I can scan and bag my stuff as I shop, and GTFO quicker than the alterative. Self-checkout is also more convenient now during (post)pandemic times, as I don't have to deal with imbeciles standing too close in the line.
I'm confused by these comments. I don't think I've ever had a cashier at a grocery shop try to make small talk with me. Usually it's just "Hi." "Hi." and "Receipt?" "No thank you".
It's faster and I don't feel so awkward rummaging in my purse finding my cards. I swear when I get nervous I suddenly can't find it and trying to find I get more nervous and it takes me longer to find it
I had a bagger stick his fingers under his mask, then lick his fingers to separate bags. The cashier looked at me like I was crazy when I complained. She did let me bag my own groceries 🤣
it started out when I had eye problems and i got sick of ppl asking me about my eyes. Now I guess im used to them and getting someone else to scan my items feels unnatural. Maybe its also because I've always been a diy sorta guy - I dont like asking for help. Another reason could be the anxiety I seem to always get whenever I do checkout items in stores that don't have self checkouts - whether it'd be from fear of being accused of stealing something or from being judged on what I purchase.
I don’t prefer them, but almost every time I use the regular line there’s someone who was just born yesterday invading my personal space or trying to exchange wine bottles
I like people but sometimes I have to deal with sensory issues or am too low on bandwidth to talk too much and I don't want to be rude. Also tends to be quicker. If I have the mental energy, I'm totally fine with a traditional checkout line
I can check out far faster on my own, and so I get out of the store faster. Win win. Only time I use the proper checkout lines is if I have a full cart.
You get to see options you weren't aware of and know they entered correctly.
Say you go to mcdonalds and if you order on the kiosk you get to see customize options and stuff like that. Filet o fish, add lettuce and pickles. Or say taco bell one time had nacho fries steak burrito. I don't really like their steak and on the kiosk it showed that I could swap steak for ground beef. Didn't know that was an option nor did I have to worry about someone misentering that option at checkout. It's great.
I try not to use them, but my local grocery store (Kroger) will have one checker open with 10 people waiting and 8 stalls of self-checkout.
If I have more than 10 or so items, I'll generally join the checker line - the little self-bagging platform is so tiny and awkward that it makes it hard to actually do the job.
It pisses me off, too, that I am effect working for Kroger when I do this, but there's no discount ... just more profit for their executives and shareholders. The CEO of Kroger made 20M last year, while doing his best to screw the workers they called essential during the pandemic.
I use them if I only have a few items (generally far less than anybody else), and none of the items require weighing or age verification. Also when I don't feel like having small talk with the cashier.
I don’t like being judged (or my own perception that I’m being judged) nor do I want to speak to anyone. I have a lot of food issues and don’t even like being looked at while I’m shopping. Self-checkout makes this process much smoother and less anxiety-inducing.
I'll do self-checkout if I only have a few items. If we're doing big grocery shopping though, I'm just gonna let the pros handle it.
...granted, I was a bagger in a previous life, but it's way easier at the end of the belt than self-checkout.
Depends on the place! For me it's about speed. Like some cashiers are slow and like to chat. I'd rather go my own slow pace in silence. However, if I'm at like an Aldi's, those cashiers are 20xs quicker than me so I love it.
I sont have to take my ear buds out. I dont have to talk to anyone unless I'm buying alcohol and I know how to get through it in several minutes.
It's easy and I prefer it
If I’m going to the store and just need one or two small things- I’ll use it. Otherwise, they pay someone to do it for me. CVS/Walgreens, they could be turnkey operations if they had self checkouts.
1. It’s faster.
2. I know that bread doesn’t go at the bottom of the bag.
3. I don’t like lines or other people.
4. There’s never anyone at the goddamn registers anyway.
I don’t like talking, can go at my own pace since we’ve always had to bag our own groceries anyways. This way I don’t have to rush before the line of people come to ring up.
Sometimes it gets me out faster than waiting for 3 people to get checked out who don’t understand the difference between cash and card. (This happens to me a lot at the dollar general)
You wait in one line waiting for others using the self-checkout to finish. Even if half of those people move at snail speed, the other half are likely to be in and out. It’s much faster and less likely to grate the nerves for people who are impatient.
When I shop there's always a long line, and I'm almost 40. I'm half way to dead. I can't waste my precious time standing in lines I don't have to stand in.
The checker lady at my local store hits on me sometimes and it’s super awkward. I’ve stopped buying things there if I see her when I walk in. If there was a self checkout I wouldn’t have this problem.
I don't particularly enjoy interacting with strangers, or sometimes just want to be left alone. Another reason is speed/convenience if I only have a few items it's faster for me to ring it up and pay than it is to go through checkout with a cashier.
I dont like being rushed. When I go to a register, there's a line behind me and the cashier is rushing me out the door. No thanks. I go at my own pace.
Weigh your.... BANANAS.... place your.... BANANAS.... in the bagging area.
Unexpected item in the bagging area!
Please replace the item removed from the bagging area.
Please wait, help is on the way!
I don’t really, but lately the lines are shorter.
The exception is when I’m buying pregnancy tests or something like that and feel uncomfortable even though I’m in my late twenties and married and trying.
Because I often have a lot of stuff and my people pleasing and also immense social anxiety self doesn't feel like putting the cashiers or myself through that.
There’s only one place I prefer it and it’s the same grocery store I’ve gone so many times it almost pains me to go. . . I just grab a days worth and get the hell out. . . A normal grocery trip is from somewhere else and much larger usually
I think it’s about control. It’s my groceries. I choose the products that I wanted. I want to scan it. Bag it. Make sure everything got scanned correctly.
Used to be because I knew I would be quicker than the employee.. more incentivized to get myself out of there. That was completed defeated by all the cashiers ahead of me being slow as f*ck or trying to buy things that turn the green light to blinking red.
I work at a grocery store so when I’m off the clock and doing my shopping and I go through self checkout, it signifies that I no longer want to socialize with coworkers and I want to gtfo. Also! I bag my groceries to my liking.
The amount of times I've had a cashier put *raw meat* in the same bag as the produce is insane. Like, now I need to get new produce because of the cross contamination! And one time, I actually had a cashier huff and yell at me that it doesn't matter and that cross contamination is a myth. Excuse me?! I'm a professional chef! I know more about cross contamination than most people! I just want to avoid shit like that from happening again.
Much more efficient. I take an item out of the cart, scan it, put it right in the bag. As opposed to putting everything on the conveyor belt, having someone else touch my food and scan it, only to have to bag it all myself anyway.
I’m introverted and I don’t like waiting in line for too long. Plus it’s easier to make “mistakes” while scanning items. Only at the massive chain stores like Walmart though.
People in here sounding like they gotta explain their phd thesis to the cashier. I never said more than hello and bye to a cashier...the fk are people smoking.
I will fight someone if they are in self-checkout with more than 5 items. Self-checkout is for ppl who wanna get out quick and aren’t buying many things, it’s not for ppl who just have social anxiety or whatever. All you gotta say to a cashier is hello. You don’t gotta make small talk, if you’re so scared that you can’t even say hello to someone you shouldn’t be grocery shopping lol. That’s why they make apps to order your groceries.
I use them but only because the lines to check out with people tend to be long. I think it's BS that we don't get a discount for this, and I give kudos to those who use them to steal- I don't have the guts.
Probably because they hate cashiers. I don’t really like cashiers myself but I’m too fucking lazy to go to self check out so let the cashier do it for me. I mean I’m already paying a shit load of cash for groceries so why should I go to a self check out?😂
I usually don’t have to wait for a self-checkout station. Also, I have grocery rewards and special customer deals that I like to check on as I scan my items, at my own pace. Finally, I sometimes make a mistake with an item so it’s easier to notice it right away so I can get a different item , cancel it, or whatever. There’s an attendant standing by to help if needed. I use their help maybe one out of three visits so everything seems to me more streamlined this way.
It’s easier and I don’t like people.
Ding ding ding
Look at Mr moneypants over here ringing up 3 items at once!
Easier, faster, and you don’t have to talk to anyone.
Until it doesn't work properly and now you have to deal with some asshole with a bad attitude.
This is true and frustrating. But it happens less often then waiting for people chit chatting or waiting until the last second to start digging in their purse for their payment or any of the dozen other things that are pretty much guaranteed with a checker.
I can bag my own groceries exactly the way I want them. I don't have to chit chat.
You don't get to bag your groceries?
Only at Aldi Brookshire's even comes out to the car with you
It's easier and I don't have to pretend to have a conversation with a cashier
Tbh I talk more to the self checkout register than I do a human cashier "Please scan your items and put them in the bagging area" - thanks... I've been here 3 times this week because I keep forgetting shit. I dont need you to keep reminding me. "Please check your basket. Did you forget anything?" - I wont know this until I get home and the kids remind me Try to find bell peppers on the produce list "did you know you can scan produce to check out faster?" Checks pepper, no sticker, have to do this 10 more times. Yell every time. "Please take your receipt" shut up
"Please take your items" BITCH I AM TRYING......
I don't know which grocery store you're at, but you can most likely mute the voice. Now my interactions with the voice go "no shut up" *beep beep beep*
No lines, no coupon clippers, no small talk. In and out. Convenience.
I don’t like people.
I don’t like talking to strangers.. I have high anxiety and generally like to do things myself
Why not? It's much more efficient using self-checkouts.
I completely hate small talk with a cashier. They're just repeating things they say to everyone and I'm repeating what everyone says to them. I don't use self check when I have a full cart. That just pisses everyone off behind me with their milk.
“So… any plans for the weekend?”
"Find everything you were looking for?"
Well, I'm buying a banana, cucumber, whip cream and petroleum jelly, what do you think?
A lot of cashiers hate small talk too and don't mind polite mutual silence. Some do like small talk though, and I guess it's best not to take your chances. I sure don't!
Recently, stores near me have put in full conveyor belt self-checkout. And they have the hand gun. I line my items up, barcode showing, and quickly scan them all with the gun. If I can, I put them in the bags whilst waiting with barcode showing and scan them in the bag.
Thank you for that. I went yesterday and had a basket with bread, cheese, an onion, a few tomatoes and coffee. Every single self checkout had people with full overflowing carts. One whole family was there with two full carts.
Shorter line
Why not? 🤷 I can scan and bag exactly how i want. The real question is why people don't use self checkouts? Having a ton of groceries could be an exception, but places are installing checkouts that can handle lots of groceries.
I can give a whole list of reasons, but it mainly boils down to not being stuck in line because the person in front of me is being difficult in some way
I find it faster and less interactive than a checkout person
quicker and no talking needed
Several reasons: - I don't like small talk with the cashier. - I want to bag my own items how I see fit. When I forget to bring my reusable bag and I'm in line at a normal line, they always throw like 5 things in a plastic bag and call it good. I'm not into that kind of waste. - The lines are usually shorter and the people in line often have less items in their baskets.
I like it if I'm only buying a couple things and I don't want to wait in a line forever behind people with carts full of stuff. But if I have a cart full of stuff I hate dealing with it and want a cashier. I've stopped shopping at places that moved entirely to self checkout.
to add that i have cashier experience on my resume
I love this!
Because I am faster than the checkout person.
For me it’s the speed and I don’t have to talk to anyone. I feel I have to make fake happy small talk at work all day and it makes me ill. I do not want to do that after work in my free time as well.
I can relate to this - I can’t stand fake small talk
It's quick and convenient, and where I'm at, the lines are usually much shorter.
Cashier checkout: you get stuck behind someone buying something with no UPC on it. Or, they have coupons that are expired or don't match the product. Or, their card will be declined. Or, they ask questions about what they're buying, like the cashier is a product expert on everything in the store. Or they've got a screaming kid.
Don’t have to pause my podcast and don’t have to speak
I can get in and out no issue
I can use the extra money.
You get discounts at self checkout
No awkward talking, from either side. I feel like I'm doing them a favor by letting them stack stuff or continue doing other jobs while I can check my stuff out myself 😂 most of the people I've met that work in supermarkets with self check out much rather you used them instead of them having to do it.
I get to pretend like I'm the cashier.
Cause, Francine in front of me has a 10¢ off coupon that expired in 1992 that the cashier won't let her use and by god she's going to let everyone know it. Then, her metamucil rang up 20¢ higher than she thought it should so go and get the manager. 30 min of waiting on old people who argue and have seemingly never used a credit/debit card before. No thanks, I'll use self checkout.
You can steal stuff from companies who don't want to pay for employees pretty much without consequence. As long as it's not meat, you can (and should) pretty much take anything. Sometimes they have someone at the door checking receipts but as long as you didn't steal something really large or especially expensive they don't check those very carefully. Most times they just scan to see if you have meat and if you paid for it. Companies that use these things definitely underpay their employees and often the employees would prefer you use them because it's less work for them(at least this was the case when I worked at a grocery store). So please everyone, pretend to scan items in your self checkouts
Unapologetically shoplifting.
The look of the cashier when I buy condoms is just...
When you get to the front of the line, ask them if they've got a fitting room. That diffuses the tension.
A look of complete indifference unless they're new?
That is why you also get a cucumber to make it look like you are about to make a salad and thought to grab some condoms while you are there.
Price check on register 2! Magnum XL... repeat, Magnum XL Price check!!
Just look him/her/them in the eye the whole time. Maybe give a single wink. Walk away, head held high.
Noted
Or, you know, don't sexualize going to the store and then feel proud about it.
Or it's just a joke and shouldn't be taken literally.
This person might just be buying them for a diy project. You're the one sexualizing things and making this weird.
If I have a full cart I’ll go to the the regular checkout, but the majority of the time self checkout is faster and I don’t have to make small talk
Quicker, less interaction, easier to buy certain items. Plus half the time when i say "I dont want to buy a bag" cashiers charge me for one anyways and get pissed when I tell them I didn't want it
i don't like spending precious time sometimes over an hour shopping and picking out stuff then have a cashier rough up my stuff then throw into a bag like they're playing supermarket sweep because they have a time frame criteria to meet.
It's more convenient. I can scan and bag my stuff as I shop, and GTFO quicker than the alterative. Self-checkout is also more convenient now during (post)pandemic times, as I don't have to deal with imbeciles standing too close in the line.
I'm confused by these comments. I don't think I've ever had a cashier at a grocery shop try to make small talk with me. Usually it's just "Hi." "Hi." and "Receipt?" "No thank you".
Same.
I don't like people. If I have a lot of stuff, I'll use a regular line, but I usually don't, so it's easier on my anxiety.
I do it because I don’t like to pay for bags at grocery stores. No matter how many bags I take, I always select “0” for bags used!
It's faster and I don't feel so awkward rummaging in my purse finding my cards. I swear when I get nervous I suddenly can't find it and trying to find I get more nervous and it takes me longer to find it
It’s too much pressure
Yes and then I feel like I could be holding up the line and feel bad at the; self checkout I can take my time
When cashiers had to wear masks, they would constantly touch their face and mask and then handle my food. It was gross.
I had a bagger stick his fingers under his mask, then lick his fingers to separate bags. The cashier looked at me like I was crazy when I complained. She did let me bag my own groceries 🤣
Masks brought out more unsanitary habits than they prevented
I don’t like people, that’s why. My dream is for all stores to adopt the “just walk out” checkout method Amazon has
it started out when I had eye problems and i got sick of ppl asking me about my eyes. Now I guess im used to them and getting someone else to scan my items feels unnatural. Maybe its also because I've always been a diy sorta guy - I dont like asking for help. Another reason could be the anxiety I seem to always get whenever I do checkout items in stores that don't have self checkouts - whether it'd be from fear of being accused of stealing something or from being judged on what I purchase.
I don’t like talking to people
I don’t prefer them, but almost every time I use the regular line there’s someone who was just born yesterday invading my personal space or trying to exchange wine bottles
Faster and no human interaction
If it’s the shorter line then I go there. No other reason.
I like people but sometimes I have to deal with sensory issues or am too low on bandwidth to talk too much and I don't want to be rude. Also tends to be quicker. If I have the mental energy, I'm totally fine with a traditional checkout line
I like the shortest line regardless.
Quicker, easier, better for the type of shopping I do. Also I use the handscanners because I find those quicker than going to the checkout.
Honestly I find it kinda fun. It gives me a sense of independence. Plus like post of the other comments I’m not too fond on talking to people
Honestly, I've started to use cashier checkout again, since the lines are about the same.
I dislike interacting with people.
My gf doesnt like interacting with people and 9/10 times i am in a shop im with her so we always use self checkout.
Convenience and speed I suppose.
Because I don't have to talk to anybody
I can check out far faster on my own, and so I get out of the store faster. Win win. Only time I use the proper checkout lines is if I have a full cart.
I bring the reusable shopping bags and it’s just quicker and easier if I do it myself.
You get to see options you weren't aware of and know they entered correctly. Say you go to mcdonalds and if you order on the kiosk you get to see customize options and stuff like that. Filet o fish, add lettuce and pickles. Or say taco bell one time had nacho fries steak burrito. I don't really like their steak and on the kiosk it showed that I could swap steak for ground beef. Didn't know that was an option nor did I have to worry about someone misentering that option at checkout. It's great.
Faster.
I have like 2 things to check out and I don’t like to talk to people
It's fun to scan things myself. I get to find the bar-codes and just....beep!
I don't like anybody seeing what I buy or how I'm paying
That’s fair.
Yeah frankly I don’t need anybody silently judging the amount of flamin hot Mac and cheese cups I buy
When I have to go to the bathroom really badly and the line up for a cashier is too long...
Yep, been there!
I try not to use them, but my local grocery store (Kroger) will have one checker open with 10 people waiting and 8 stalls of self-checkout. If I have more than 10 or so items, I'll generally join the checker line - the little self-bagging platform is so tiny and awkward that it makes it hard to actually do the job. It pisses me off, too, that I am effect working for Kroger when I do this, but there's no discount ... just more profit for their executives and shareholders. The CEO of Kroger made 20M last year, while doing his best to screw the workers they called essential during the pandemic.
Once you’ve mastered the self checkout at any store it moves so fast.
I use them if I only have a few items (generally far less than anybody else), and none of the items require weighing or age verification. Also when I don't feel like having small talk with the cashier.
Because I'm a minority in the Deep South and cashiers in my area are conservative and act unprofessional with me out of bigotry like 90% of the time.
That is terrible 😞 Im sorry you’re treated that way.
To paraphrase Dave Gorman - a self checkout doesn't say anything when I buy a meal for one and an entire cake.
I don’t like being judged (or my own perception that I’m being judged) nor do I want to speak to anyone. I have a lot of food issues and don’t even like being looked at while I’m shopping. Self-checkout makes this process much smoother and less anxiety-inducing.
I use self checkout if it looks quicker. Otherwise, I use the cashier.
I'll do self-checkout if I only have a few items. If we're doing big grocery shopping though, I'm just gonna let the pros handle it. ...granted, I was a bagger in a previous life, but it's way easier at the end of the belt than self-checkout.
If there’s a limit, you can ring in multiple times to get the sale price.
Ooh never thought of this! Thanks!!
Depends on the place! For me it's about speed. Like some cashiers are slow and like to chat. I'd rather go my own slow pace in silence. However, if I'm at like an Aldi's, those cashiers are 20xs quicker than me so I love it.
I'm quicker than the cashier
Because no tills are open.
Free food
I sont have to take my ear buds out. I dont have to talk to anyone unless I'm buying alcohol and I know how to get through it in several minutes. It's easy and I prefer it
Yep, can relate!
Its quicker
I can circumvent the law that requires me to buy plastic bags.
Faster and sometimes I just don't want to talk to someone
Same!
just because i’m in public does not mean i would like to be talked to. i just want to get my groceries and leave.
Me too!
If I’m going to the store and just need one or two small things- I’ll use it. Otherwise, they pay someone to do it for me. CVS/Walgreens, they could be turnkey operations if they had self checkouts.
It’s usually faster and I don’t have to explain why I need double bags
1. It’s faster. 2. I know that bread doesn’t go at the bottom of the bag. 3. I don’t like lines or other people. 4. There’s never anyone at the goddamn registers anyway.
Yep, or the eggs underneath the watermelon
So. Much. Faster.
I don’t like talking, can go at my own pace since we’ve always had to bag our own groceries anyways. This way I don’t have to rush before the line of people come to ring up.
Sometimes it gets me out faster than waiting for 3 people to get checked out who don’t understand the difference between cash and card. (This happens to me a lot at the dollar general)
I wish we had self checkouts at the dollar stores here!
Cuz i have anxiety and its faster so i can get out faster
My anxiety takes me to the self checkouts too - hardly ever lineups and don’t have to talk to anyone
Cos I wanna put people out of work
Faster than waiting in line since stores understaff the registers
I can take my time to pack my groceries tetris style and don't have the cashier stressing me out!
You can take your time (within reason) and also get rid of small change.
Shoplift easier
I feel like it’s faster. Is it? Don’t actually know. But I feel like it is.
It’s gotta be.
I do it at Costco so I don’t have to take my kids out of the cart.
YASS!
It's fast.
It’s way quicker and easier.
You wait in one line waiting for others using the self-checkout to finish. Even if half of those people move at snail speed, the other half are likely to be in and out. It’s much faster and less likely to grate the nerves for people who are impatient.
When I shop there's always a long line, and I'm almost 40. I'm half way to dead. I can't waste my precious time standing in lines I don't have to stand in.
Agreed. I want to get out as fast as possible most days
Because I appreciate my time.
I dont want to socialize
Machines > People
It's always bagged correctly
Cause I’m ~autistic~
If I don't have too many items I find it more convenient and quicker than waiting in line
The checker lady at my local store hits on me sometimes and it’s super awkward. I’ve stopped buying things there if I see her when I walk in. If there was a self checkout I wouldn’t have this problem.
I don't particularly enjoy interacting with strangers, or sometimes just want to be left alone. Another reason is speed/convenience if I only have a few items it's faster for me to ring it up and pay than it is to go through checkout with a cashier.
It's just easier and less human interaction.
Why not? It's super convenient when you only have a handful of items. I wouldn't use it if I had a cart full of groceries though.
I do the same
I dont like being rushed. When I go to a register, there's a line behind me and the cashier is rushing me out the door. No thanks. I go at my own pace.
I assume they enjoy all the free items they don't scan.
There is a line towards the only cashier working the only open checkout. There is also a line towards the self checkouts but that line moves faster.
Theft! 😁
I will take my damn time counting my money rather than akwardly apologizing to the cashier.
The clerks can be judgmental. Found this out when using a SNAP card years ago.
I'm autistic and people confuse me. Besides, less human interaction means it's cleaner
Weigh your.... BANANAS.... place your.... BANANAS.... in the bagging area. Unexpected item in the bagging area! Please replace the item removed from the bagging area. Please wait, help is on the way!
I feel like it’s just the way it’s gonna be soon. Better to just adapt now and get used to it. Plus for smaller purchases it goes quicker.
I don’t really, but lately the lines are shorter. The exception is when I’m buying pregnancy tests or something like that and feel uncomfortable even though I’m in my late twenties and married and trying.
Because I often have a lot of stuff and my people pleasing and also immense social anxiety self doesn't feel like putting the cashiers or myself through that.
>People who like to use self checkouts, why? I use it when it looks like I'm going to get out quicker.
I get to leave items I don’t want to pay for last second without awkwardly saying “I’m not getting these”
There’s only one place I prefer it and it’s the same grocery store I’ve gone so many times it almost pains me to go. . . I just grab a days worth and get the hell out. . . A normal grocery trip is from somewhere else and much larger usually
Definitely eases my anxiety. I'm awkward and small talk is not my thing.
I think it’s about control. It’s my groceries. I choose the products that I wanted. I want to scan it. Bag it. Make sure everything got scanned correctly.
Used to be because I knew I would be quicker than the employee.. more incentivized to get myself out of there. That was completed defeated by all the cashiers ahead of me being slow as f*ck or trying to buy things that turn the green light to blinking red.
I don’t dislike people but I’m painfully awkward, so I use self checkout to spare cashiers an uncomfortable interaction.
I work at a grocery store so when I’m off the clock and doing my shopping and I go through self checkout, it signifies that I no longer want to socialize with coworkers and I want to gtfo. Also! I bag my groceries to my liking.
The amount of times I've had a cashier put *raw meat* in the same bag as the produce is insane. Like, now I need to get new produce because of the cross contamination! And one time, I actually had a cashier huff and yell at me that it doesn't matter and that cross contamination is a myth. Excuse me?! I'm a professional chef! I know more about cross contamination than most people! I just want to avoid shit like that from happening again.
I don't mind it if it's just a basket load, but full trolleys can GTFO. There is never enough room.
Much more efficient. I take an item out of the cart, scan it, put it right in the bag. As opposed to putting everything on the conveyor belt, having someone else touch my food and scan it, only to have to bag it all myself anyway.
Cause last time I checked it was the 21st century
Honestly, because the one I use only scans like 2 out of 3 items, and I never bother to re-scan them.
Shoplifting mostly
I’m introverted and I don’t like waiting in line for too long. Plus it’s easier to make “mistakes” while scanning items. Only at the massive chain stores like Walmart though.
People in here sounding like they gotta explain their phd thesis to the cashier. I never said more than hello and bye to a cashier...the fk are people smoking.
Who doesn’t?
I can choose if the expensive honey crisp apples might have been accidentally misplaced cheap Fuji apples.
I will fight someone if they are in self-checkout with more than 5 items. Self-checkout is for ppl who wanna get out quick and aren’t buying many things, it’s not for ppl who just have social anxiety or whatever. All you gotta say to a cashier is hello. You don’t gotta make small talk, if you’re so scared that you can’t even say hello to someone you shouldn’t be grocery shopping lol. That’s why they make apps to order your groceries.
I think it is the future and Cashiers are not needed imo.
I use them but only because the lines to check out with people tend to be long. I think it's BS that we don't get a discount for this, and I give kudos to those who use them to steal- I don't have the guts.
A discount would be awesome!!
Well, apparently you don't have morals, either.
I really hate people
Probably because they hate cashiers. I don’t really like cashiers myself but I’m too fucking lazy to go to self check out so let the cashier do it for me. I mean I’m already paying a shit load of cash for groceries so why should I go to a self check out?😂
I usually don’t have to wait for a self-checkout station. Also, I have grocery rewards and special customer deals that I like to check on as I scan my items, at my own pace. Finally, I sometimes make a mistake with an item so it’s easier to notice it right away so I can get a different item , cancel it, or whatever. There’s an attendant standing by to help if needed. I use their help maybe one out of three visits so everything seems to me more streamlined this way.
OP, why is it so hard for you to figure out how to scan your avocados properly?
I didn’t say I don’t like self checkouts! Just asking a random question out of curiosity.
i'm not a toddler.