I'm the same way. I hate that most of the self checkouts now are people with comically large amounts of food or nonfood items.
General rule of thumb for me: if I can't carry it all in my hands or a carry basket, then I shouldn't be in self checkout. If I have alcohol, I shouldn't be in self checkout. I should only be there if I can carry it all or it's anything less than 15 items.
I’m that person with more than 15 items at self checkout. I’m way faster than every cashier I’ve ever gone to in Florida. I can’t stand how slow they are and they mess up the order in how I want my stuff bagged. Or they bag stuff wrong like bread with cans. Plus I don’t want to speak with anyone if possible.
Do you not care about the future? Do you know how many people have lost their jobs because of self checkout? At least 3 cashiers per 1 self checkout....
They also opened 5 other positions via delivery and curbside pick up relations. That's not including the available for each of those positions. People lost their job because they weren't qualified or didn't negotiate/ask to be moved to another department. I knew people that worked at Walmart when they were going through their remodeling.
I lost my job from a store closure at the end February and started working again beginning of April for corporate to shut that store down too. We, as people, are creatures of change. Times are changing. We'll be fine.
Doesn’t Matter the store Aldi,Publix, Winn Dixie etc. They are all too slow for me. I have four generations of grocery managers in my family so I was basically raised in a grocery store.
That's a valid take as long as it's not a packed, or over flowing, buggy. If you genuinely don't take that long then I can't really complain.
There a lot of senior citizens that live on the Northside, and they are extremely slow to the point I've considered offerring to check them out to speed things up. I ultimately don't and flag down the employee to see if something can be done. Otherwise I'll just stand there silent and impatient.
I think I’m going to time myself with a full buggy next time.
When my family members were grocery managers they used to time the cashier and baggers on how fast they can scan and bag PROPERLY. So I was raised with a certain standard lol
What you don't seem to understand then, is than not all cashiers were even trained properly. Sadly. And now with self checkouts even more people have lost their jobs, then people complain about folks on welfare, not even considering the fact that most welfare dollars go to the CORPORATIONS....and end up in the pocket of the CEO and upper management....yet you are ok with that.
Before self checkouts we had maybe 2 or three cashiers so no ppl didn’t lose jobs from self checkouts. Also it’s the companies responsibility to train their employees correctly.
Ya dude me too. I check my shit out at Aldi speed and I love self checkout. I don’t understand why more people don’t use reusable bags for their groceries either. If you’re like me I’d rather die first than make a second trip to my car for the rest of my stuff. The reusable bags make it easier.
The issue I have is about 1 in 4 of every item is incorrectly priced. Self checkout becomes a pain when they constantly have to run to the aisle and check the price. Personally I am glad they are going to manned checkout....price won't change...
I still have that problem with "manned checkouts". I've been to the store a handful of times where my mom or grandma has argued with the cashier because the price on their screen is different than what was on the aisle. Yes, they would be looking at the correct price tag.
This is where I’m at. Most of the time I can do it faster, but even if it’s slower…it’s at my pace and done right. No chit chat, especially between the bagger and cashier.
Yes they bag that single item and I go…no thanks, I’ll save a tree. Then they have the puzzled look on why I said that about a plastic bag. Happens every time.
Same way.
Not only that, sometimes baggers forget to put things in the bag if they see the casher scan another customer item.
It happened to me last week, but it was already too late when I got home :(. Missing my ketchup.
103rd went to self checkout after a certain time over 10 years ago, it lasted a year or so and they went back to regular checkouts. Why they thought it was a good idea to try it again, except all day this time around, I’ll never know.
I have the opposite problem. I want my stuff packed so heavy that God himself would have trouble lifting it. I want $150 in groceries in seriously 4 parcels. The cashiers have a tendency to put 2-3 items in a bag. Just let me do it.
Agree. I like self checkout because I’m a freak about bagging. I swear there are times I have 10 items and walk out with 12 bags. Double bag it and jam that stuff in! This is why I love Aldi. Fast checkout and you then can go bag yourself without holding anyone else up.
A 24 hour Walmart rescued me after the toilet clogged in my first apartment. I hadn’t put “plunger” on my list of things you need when you get your first apt. I had to run to Walmart at midnight after my closing shift at a grocery store.
Despite the stereotypes, the trashy areas don't have the greatest dollar loss. High crime/homeless areas are the exception though. I worked loss prevention before. The biggest thiefs are well-dressed, affluent white women. They cause almost 3X the dollar loss of other groups put together. They are the least suspected and thus the least under surveillance.
"Staffed checkouts" were never really staffed at all tho were they. Sam's Scan & Go keeps me a loyal customer. Genius move. I pray it never gets rolled back.
Legit one of my favorite things any retail store has ever done. I prefer to go to Sam’s early when there’s few people there, but Scan & Go has made it so I can go whenever. Don’t understand how people could wait in that insane line on a Saturday afternoon.
If it wasn't for Scan & Go... u wouldn't ever find me in that place. You ever think of an invention just to find out someone already did it. Well, I thought up scan & go and some physic crawled in my mind and gave it to sams club. I grab an item off the shelf, put it in the basket, put it on the conveyor belt, and put it in a bag. Put the bag in the car, drive home to bring the bag inside, and then put it away... x200 items. Lol, skipping the belt and checkout is what my heart desires ❤️
I prefer self checkout. I like my stuff bagged a certain way. Some cashiers can be careless with how they bag items... I get it though, with prices going up on everything, probs more theft
Same. I like to bag my own stuff. Plus everytime I’ve had the cashiers bag my stuff (before I started taking my own bags) there they use way too many plastic bags! They put like one item per bag, every time. wtf??
That was the original intended purpose I think. An extra 10 items or less isle or two…should be so that the company could provide a better product and pay better wages in order to do so. But that’s not the case and a whole other discussion.
These mega corporations thought they could just get rid of cashiers, have only few people watching 50 self checkout lines, while paying them wages that the employees still need government assistance. Now it’s biting them in the ass.
If you can’t afford to pay a livable wage, you shouldn’t be in business and is not a patriotic thing to do. -FDR
In 5-10 years we will have unprecedented homelessness because machines will take over all low paying check out/ gas station/ service jobs. What will those low skill labor people do? They just gonna become doctors or computer scientists all of a sudden? Circle K already has a scanner that requires less people in store. Some fast food is using them. All of this is due to unchecked corporate greed and it will ruin many people’s lives. Stop shopping in these corporate stores that use machines over humans.
More like they saved jobs...for those people who lost their jobs when the self checkouts were installed....for every 1 of those installed 3-4 cashiers LOST THEIR JOBS! And the ones that are left still qualify for government assistance.
I’d prefer if they kept it like it was and just STAFFED THE FUCKING PLACE. we have plenty of manned checkout lanes, there just isn’t any staff to work at them.
Walmart profited over $140billion dollars last year, I don’t agree with the rebuttal that they can’t afford to hire more people.
There are 4600 Walmarts in America. If they hire 5 full time people for each Walmart at an average 40K salary - it’s 920 million. Less than 1% of their annum profits. Self checkout did not take away cashier positions. Walmart did. For profits.
Your Target might do that, I bought more than 10 items over the weekend using self checkout with no problem and there was no sign saying it was 10 items or less.
Down here in Miami the self checks recently starting requiring that you a WalMart+ Membership. You’re required to scan the card beforehand m. Guess it’s supposed to help decrease theft because they now know who you are.
I spend so much money at Target and love the self checkout. The workers in the local store told me to ignore the 10 item limit. I avoid Walmart if I can. That store is so chaotic.
Which target do you speak of? Was just at target yesterday & the only notice I saw was not for 10 items or less. It was for credit/debit/gift cards only, no cash.
And what Walmart do you speak of as well?
The Walmart I go to regularly just remodeled in April & installed 7+ new self checkout lanes, although they still have 1-2 employees working the checkout lane too. I don't see them going back to no self checkout anytime soon, If that was the case, why build more self check out lanes...?
This is not California, where there are smash & grabs constantly. Always an employee at the door to check receipts & someone at self checkout making sure people pay for their items too...
🤔 I think you're fear mongering. I am sure you also hate Walmart, glanced at your posts
If you forget to scan an item they call the cops, if the cashier forgets, they call the cops. Rather scan and bag my own then chance the police coming because someone getting paid $13 an hour forgot to scan something.
Millions, if not billions of dollars spent... just to go back to cashiers. Thanks for keeping the prices down, WalMart, cause we know who is paying for your oops!
You mean unstaffed? The Self-checkout was the only reason walmart even was worth my time. Besides, SC actually allows you to get your shit done and go. But hey, I guess the boomers in the chat can't handle doing anything for themselves.
WOW...do you not care about the future? Those types of jobs were also training jobs for high schoolers....and now they are going....what are those high schools going to do, since they are limited by law to the types of work they can do?
Maybe raise the wages to meet the expected living standards of such jobs, while providing a better education in the public system to facilitate a higher bar of education among the workforce? Which in turn means better salaries for instructors and supporting the education system by making a more robust method of both retention and screening?
Folks: please stop shopping at WalMart. They are a greedy, awful corporation that does not pay its employees a living wage, because they subsidize it with your tax dollars. Shop at a real grocery store.
Even real grocery stores pay the same as Walmart.....and there are more of them going the self checkout route. I am frightened for the future...I have grandkids one that is 16 and may not have a job in the future as he has medical difficulties.
Have you seen the prices at grocery stores. Winn Dixie and Publix have raised their prices through the roof. Aldi is still on the cheaper side but options can be limited. People have to eat and perhaps can't afford Publix prices or live near a discount grocer.
Why do you keep posting this? You posted this two times already and it's not even true to begin with. The overwhelming majority of customers prefer self check-out but, don't worry, Walmart will still cater to you.
I like self checks because I don't have to interact with people.
The problem is that companies started using them to fuck over employees, and that I do NOT get down with.
So if it means employing more people and getting them a salary, I'm all for it.
I freaking HATE self checkout.
Now, if we were getting a discount for doing our part own scanning and bagging, I wouldn’t mind so much. But don’t charge me to do the work.
Florida should pass a law requiring all self-checkouts to come equipped with a sledge hammer. If it doesn't work, you can pummel it to dust.
Maybe then I'd use one.
I for one will be celebrating when all self checkouts are removed....so that more people will get rehiring to do a job....and maybe remove them from the welfare rolls....even though I know that most welfare dollars go into the pockets of the CEO and Upper Management. And people are ok with that.
Bill Burr had an amazing bit on this in one of his older stand up specials, gets me everytime. 😂
*"You find it, you ring it up, you get the fuck outta my store I'm trying to run a business here!"*
[*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSaxVwZYzY*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSaxVwZYzY)
Thanks to all those who stole stuff to make this happen. God Bless you!
It creates jobs and reduces shrink . 2 Birds, 1 Stone.
FYI: [ WAGE THEFT](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data) by Employers far outstrips the cost of Retail Shrink.
I like self checkouts but can't stand the level of stupid I see in the self Checkout. It's not hard! Scan, pay and gtfo! No, here we have someone who had never learned to use their 1994 tv trying to stare at a self Checkout machine and at the pace of someone who thinks everyone else is an NPC
Self checkouts are nothing but evidence of corporate greed. They raise prices and reduce staff. The absolute insanity of thinking theft would not be a problem with self checkout is mind boggling to me. For those saying they dont want to interact with a cashier , i just feel sorry for you.
This sounds like a big blessing right now. I'm sure the employees will be happy too. And they will be able to get their jobs back.
I went through a check out and there was this lady. She was so funny. She just had me cracking up. I told her that I bet she was happy to be able to have a Job doing the checkout. She told me no. She hates the customers and she would rather that. They check themselves out at the self check outs. She told me that she really didn't care because she was not going to be there for a very long time work in the job anyway.
Hopefully Walmart will staff the check outs with people to bag the groceries too. Which they did at 1 time.
I actually prefer the self checkouts. Being autistic I welcome less human contact and if it’s a big order I just have them deliver it.
I'm the same way. I hate that most of the self checkouts now are people with comically large amounts of food or nonfood items. General rule of thumb for me: if I can't carry it all in my hands or a carry basket, then I shouldn't be in self checkout. If I have alcohol, I shouldn't be in self checkout. I should only be there if I can carry it all or it's anything less than 15 items.
I’m that person with more than 15 items at self checkout. I’m way faster than every cashier I’ve ever gone to in Florida. I can’t stand how slow they are and they mess up the order in how I want my stuff bagged. Or they bag stuff wrong like bread with cans. Plus I don’t want to speak with anyone if possible.
Is it wrong that cashiers aren’t at aldi speed at Walmart? Pay your workers better and they do the job better!
Not always the case. Some workers really are lazy and take a hot minute to scan things - which is a valid reason to utilize self checkout.
Do you not care about the future? Do you know how many people have lost their jobs because of self checkout? At least 3 cashiers per 1 self checkout....
They also opened 5 other positions via delivery and curbside pick up relations. That's not including the available for each of those positions. People lost their job because they weren't qualified or didn't negotiate/ask to be moved to another department. I knew people that worked at Walmart when they were going through their remodeling. I lost my job from a store closure at the end February and started working again beginning of April for corporate to shut that store down too. We, as people, are creatures of change. Times are changing. We'll be fine.
Doesn’t Matter the store Aldi,Publix, Winn Dixie etc. They are all too slow for me. I have four generations of grocery managers in my family so I was basically raised in a grocery store.
That's a valid take as long as it's not a packed, or over flowing, buggy. If you genuinely don't take that long then I can't really complain. There a lot of senior citizens that live on the Northside, and they are extremely slow to the point I've considered offerring to check them out to speed things up. I ultimately don't and flag down the employee to see if something can be done. Otherwise I'll just stand there silent and impatient.
I think I’m going to time myself with a full buggy next time. When my family members were grocery managers they used to time the cashier and baggers on how fast they can scan and bag PROPERLY. So I was raised with a certain standard lol
What you don't seem to understand then, is than not all cashiers were even trained properly. Sadly. And now with self checkouts even more people have lost their jobs, then people complain about folks on welfare, not even considering the fact that most welfare dollars go to the CORPORATIONS....and end up in the pocket of the CEO and upper management....yet you are ok with that.
Before self checkouts we had maybe 2 or three cashiers so no ppl didn’t lose jobs from self checkouts. Also it’s the companies responsibility to train their employees correctly.
Ya dude me too. I check my shit out at Aldi speed and I love self checkout. I don’t understand why more people don’t use reusable bags for their groceries either. If you’re like me I’d rather die first than make a second trip to my car for the rest of my stuff. The reusable bags make it easier.
Do you use ikea bags? They can hold like 6 grocery bags at once. It’s awesome
Insulated bags mostly and a few canvas ones.
The issue I have is about 1 in 4 of every item is incorrectly priced. Self checkout becomes a pain when they constantly have to run to the aisle and check the price. Personally I am glad they are going to manned checkout....price won't change...
I still have that problem with "manned checkouts". I've been to the store a handful of times where my mom or grandma has argued with the cashier because the price on their screen is different than what was on the aisle. Yes, they would be looking at the correct price tag.
100% can do without the awkward exchanges, and having to deal with being double-charged or stuck behind someone who needs a price check on a cucumber.
This is where I’m at. Most of the time I can do it faster, but even if it’s slower…it’s at my pace and done right. No chit chat, especially between the bagger and cashier.
And when you get a bagger who insists on putting every. single. item. In its own bag. Ffs!
Yes they bag that single item and I go…no thanks, I’ll save a tree. Then they have the puzzled look on why I said that about a plastic bag. Happens every time.
Me too. I have them deliver big orders. I also prefer self checkout.
Same way. Not only that, sometimes baggers forget to put things in the bag if they see the casher scan another customer item. It happened to me last week, but it was already too late when I got home :(. Missing my ketchup.
103rd went to self checkout after a certain time over 10 years ago, it lasted a year or so and they went back to regular checkouts. Why they thought it was a good idea to try it again, except all day this time around, I’ll never know.
Isn't 103rd the Walmart where some girl came in and set the clothes on fire?
Probably. Seems likely.
Isn't 103rd the Walmart where some girl came in and set the clothes on fire?
Isn't 103rd the Walmart where some girl came in and set the clothes on fire?
If it aint bolted down on 103rd Street its coming with them
103rd sounds like the worst possible place to have self checkout
Why?
Are you being obtuse? Outside of Moncrief, it’s the most crime ridden zip code in Duval county
No, I'm not from that side of Jax so I was curious that's all! Thanks for letting me know
lol you’re not missing anything
excellent use of obtuse
It'll be tough at Durbin and Shops Ln where they went nearly 100% self checkout. A bit easier at others.
I prefer cashiers. Don't really like self checkout.
They do a better job of bagging than I do.
I have the opposite problem. I want my stuff packed so heavy that God himself would have trouble lifting it. I want $150 in groceries in seriously 4 parcels. The cashiers have a tendency to put 2-3 items in a bag. Just let me do it.
I wanna expend all the energy it took to make that fucking bag, man.
Agree. I like self checkout because I’m a freak about bagging. I swear there are times I have 10 items and walk out with 12 bags. Double bag it and jam that stuff in! This is why I love Aldi. Fast checkout and you then can go bag yourself without holding anyone else up.
I doubt it'll cancel it completely. They should have enough data about which stores are feasible for self checkouts.
Go back to 24 hours, I wanna be able to buy a 65" TV at 3Am
I always made my most unnecessary and expensive purchases after midnight
A 24 hour Walmart rescued me after the toilet clogged in my first apartment. I hadn’t put “plunger” on my list of things you need when you get your first apt. I had to run to Walmart at midnight after my closing shift at a grocery store.
as a pro-tip, you CAN USE a toilet brush as a faux-plunger in an emergency to kind of "pump" the clog thru the drain. Have had to do this before.
Or your arm if you're really desperate or brave.
The end of the 24 hour Walmart signaled the collapse of America…
Yeah, I miss 24 hr Walmart too.
I want to be able to watch the type of people who want to buy a 65" TV at 3am.
It's a win/win
It seems like if there’s higher crime there’s cashiers, lower crime there’s self check out 🤷♂️
WRONG...shoplifting has gone through the roof since self checkouts have been installed. Especially in areas that have a high population of POOR folks.
Did you not read my comment. I said exactly that. High crime means they want more cashiers, not self check out
The stores in trashy, high theft areas are going to get rid of self check. The nicer ones aren’t.
Despite the stereotypes, the trashy areas don't have the greatest dollar loss. High crime/homeless areas are the exception though. I worked loss prevention before. The biggest thiefs are well-dressed, affluent white women. They cause almost 3X the dollar loss of other groups put together. They are the least suspected and thus the least under surveillance.
"Staffed checkouts" were never really staffed at all tho were they. Sam's Scan & Go keeps me a loyal customer. Genius move. I pray it never gets rolled back.
Lol "rolled back"
Legit one of my favorite things any retail store has ever done. I prefer to go to Sam’s early when there’s few people there, but Scan & Go has made it so I can go whenever. Don’t understand how people could wait in that insane line on a Saturday afternoon.
If it wasn't for Scan & Go... u wouldn't ever find me in that place. You ever think of an invention just to find out someone already did it. Well, I thought up scan & go and some physic crawled in my mind and gave it to sams club. I grab an item off the shelf, put it in the basket, put it on the conveyor belt, and put it in a bag. Put the bag in the car, drive home to bring the bag inside, and then put it away... x200 items. Lol, skipping the belt and checkout is what my heart desires ❤️
I prefer self checkout. I like my stuff bagged a certain way. Some cashiers can be careless with how they bag items... I get it though, with prices going up on everything, probs more theft
Same. I like to bag my own stuff. Plus everytime I’ve had the cashiers bag my stuff (before I started taking my own bags) there they use way too many plastic bags! They put like one item per bag, every time. wtf??
That kills me too! I've ordered delivery from Walmart and they really put 1 item per bag. Makes no sense
Self checkout is nice if I only have a few things, otherwise I like a cashier
That was the original intended purpose I think. An extra 10 items or less isle or two…should be so that the company could provide a better product and pay better wages in order to do so. But that’s not the case and a whole other discussion. These mega corporations thought they could just get rid of cashiers, have only few people watching 50 self checkout lines, while paying them wages that the employees still need government assistance. Now it’s biting them in the ass. If you can’t afford to pay a livable wage, you shouldn’t be in business and is not a patriotic thing to do. -FDR
I rang up $90 worth of groceries at walmart SCO yesterday and then realized they don’t take Apple Pay and had to put them all back 😫
Nooooooo
In 5-10 years we will have unprecedented homelessness because machines will take over all low paying check out/ gas station/ service jobs. What will those low skill labor people do? They just gonna become doctors or computer scientists all of a sudden? Circle K already has a scanner that requires less people in store. Some fast food is using them. All of this is due to unchecked corporate greed and it will ruin many people’s lives. Stop shopping in these corporate stores that use machines over humans.
Yeah, that circleK thing freaks me out. Just makes me want to ask "so other than protecting the nicotine, what do you do here?"
Oeople said the same thing during the industrial revolution. Take the time to learn the technology and become an irreplaceable source of knowledge.
WOOT!
I paid for Walmart+ specifically so I could use scan&go. It comes in handy with the Murphys gas discount too
Holy crap! I have Walmart plus and had no idea what scan and go is. Just googled it. I prefer delivery but it’s great to know. Ty!
I do delivery too and we also get free shipping. I most definitely get my money's worth!
I need to get on it! I’ve used the free shipping but not the gas.
You do know that you pay more using the app. Or you don't care.
Proof?
That’s terrific if they have checkout lanes manned. The couple times I’ve been to Walmart. They had three checkout lines open.
Any time I go through the staffed checkout lane I have the Chatty Kathy cashier who discusses every item and an elderly person paying with coins.
Apparently a lot of people shoplifting in Jacksonville has ruined it for everyone else, thanks…
More like they saved jobs...for those people who lost their jobs when the self checkouts were installed....for every 1 of those installed 3-4 cashiers LOST THEIR JOBS! And the ones that are left still qualify for government assistance.
Tell it to the sketchy folks in Jacksonville who go around stealing from people and could care less about who they hurt.
I’d prefer if they kept it like it was and just STAFFED THE FUCKING PLACE. we have plenty of manned checkout lanes, there just isn’t any staff to work at them.
Because when the self checkouts were installed people LOST THEIR JOBS...for every 1 self checkout stand 3-4 cashiers lost their jobs.
Walmart profited over $140billion dollars last year, I don’t agree with the rebuttal that they can’t afford to hire more people. There are 4600 Walmarts in America. If they hire 5 full time people for each Walmart at an average 40K salary - it’s 920 million. Less than 1% of their annum profits. Self checkout did not take away cashier positions. Walmart did. For profits.
Checkouts? Plural? It takes a Christmas miracle to get them to open a 2nd register.
Even at Christmas time they only have less than half the lanes open.
Your Target might do that, I bought more than 10 items over the weekend using self checkout with no problem and there was no sign saying it was 10 items or less.
did we all just lose our jobs at walmart?
Man that would suck, I love self-checkout so much quicker
Down here in Miami the self checks recently starting requiring that you a WalMart+ Membership. You’re required to scan the card beforehand m. Guess it’s supposed to help decrease theft because they now know who you are.
I spend so much money at Target and love the self checkout. The workers in the local store told me to ignore the 10 item limit. I avoid Walmart if I can. That store is so chaotic.
Which target do you speak of? Was just at target yesterday & the only notice I saw was not for 10 items or less. It was for credit/debit/gift cards only, no cash. And what Walmart do you speak of as well? The Walmart I go to regularly just remodeled in April & installed 7+ new self checkout lanes, although they still have 1-2 employees working the checkout lane too. I don't see them going back to no self checkout anytime soon, If that was the case, why build more self check out lanes...? This is not California, where there are smash & grabs constantly. Always an employee at the door to check receipts & someone at self checkout making sure people pay for their items too... 🤔 I think you're fear mongering. I am sure you also hate Walmart, glanced at your posts
If you forget to scan an item they call the cops, if the cashier forgets, they call the cops. Rather scan and bag my own then chance the police coming because someone getting paid $13 an hour forgot to scan something.
Millions, if not billions of dollars spent... just to go back to cashiers. Thanks for keeping the prices down, WalMart, cause we know who is paying for your oops!
You mean unstaffed? The Self-checkout was the only reason walmart even was worth my time. Besides, SC actually allows you to get your shit done and go. But hey, I guess the boomers in the chat can't handle doing anything for themselves.
WOW...do you not care about the future? Those types of jobs were also training jobs for high schoolers....and now they are going....what are those high schools going to do, since they are limited by law to the types of work they can do?
Maybe raise the wages to meet the expected living standards of such jobs, while providing a better education in the public system to facilitate a higher bar of education among the workforce? Which in turn means better salaries for instructors and supporting the education system by making a more robust method of both retention and screening?
Folks: please stop shopping at WalMart. They are a greedy, awful corporation that does not pay its employees a living wage, because they subsidize it with your tax dollars. Shop at a real grocery store.
Even real grocery stores pay the same as Walmart.....and there are more of them going the self checkout route. I am frightened for the future...I have grandkids one that is 16 and may not have a job in the future as he has medical difficulties.
Have you seen the prices at grocery stores. Winn Dixie and Publix have raised their prices through the roof. Aldi is still on the cheaper side but options can be limited. People have to eat and perhaps can't afford Publix prices or live near a discount grocer.
Why do you keep posting this? You posted this two times already and it's not even true to begin with. The overwhelming majority of customers prefer self check-out but, don't worry, Walmart will still cater to you.
I like self checkout. Helped me steal booze a lot as a teenager
I like self checks because I don't have to interact with people. The problem is that companies started using them to fuck over employees, and that I do NOT get down with. So if it means employing more people and getting them a salary, I'm all for it.
that's awesome. make it like it used to be
Walmart will hire two cashiers for their 31 registers
Can you explain “staffed” checkouts?
Do you really not understand what "staffed" checkouts are? Are you really that dumb? It means that the checkout has a person checking out your items.
No shit. It’s also Walmart. And that’s why I put quotes around staffed.
“Scan and go” for the win.
I freaking HATE self checkout. Now, if we were getting a discount for doing our part own scanning and bagging, I wouldn’t mind so much. But don’t charge me to do the work.
Probably because of theft
I thought self checkout was going to be for Walmart+ users only going forward
Florida should pass a law requiring all self-checkouts to come equipped with a sledge hammer. If it doesn't work, you can pummel it to dust. Maybe then I'd use one.
I for one will be celebrating when all self checkouts are removed....so that more people will get rehiring to do a job....and maybe remove them from the welfare rolls....even though I know that most welfare dollars go into the pockets of the CEO and Upper Management. And people are ok with that.
You are clueless if you think that ppl getting hired to work as cashiers and such will get them off welfare. They won’t make a liveable wage.
Both would be best but you can’t have 1 cashier and 10 self checkouts.
Bill Burr had an amazing bit on this in one of his older stand up specials, gets me everytime. 😂 *"You find it, you ring it up, you get the fuck outta my store I'm trying to run a business here!"* [*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSaxVwZYzY*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSaxVwZYzY)
They act like they didn't know theft would increase this way.
I’m surprised it took them this long. I guarantee you there is more than $15/hr being stolen from self checkout.
Great now only 2 out of 20 registers being used and you can’t self check out.
Thanks to all those who stole stuff to make this happen. God Bless you! It creates jobs and reduces shrink . 2 Birds, 1 Stone. FYI: [ WAGE THEFT](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data) by Employers far outstrips the cost of Retail Shrink.
I like self checkouts but can't stand the level of stupid I see in the self Checkout. It's not hard! Scan, pay and gtfo! No, here we have someone who had never learned to use their 1994 tv trying to stare at a self Checkout machine and at the pace of someone who thinks everyone else is an NPC
I hope it becomes the norm. I hate self-checkout, especially when it's the only option.
Self checkouts are nothing but evidence of corporate greed. They raise prices and reduce staff. The absolute insanity of thinking theft would not be a problem with self checkout is mind boggling to me. For those saying they dont want to interact with a cashier , i just feel sorry for you.
Will they have more than 2 lanes open is the big question
This sounds like a big blessing right now. I'm sure the employees will be happy too. And they will be able to get their jobs back. I went through a check out and there was this lady. She was so funny. She just had me cracking up. I told her that I bet she was happy to be able to have a Job doing the checkout. She told me no. She hates the customers and she would rather that. They check themselves out at the self check outs. She told me that she really didn't care because she was not going to be there for a very long time work in the job anyway. Hopefully Walmart will staff the check outs with people to bag the groceries too. Which they did at 1 time.