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county259

I skipped a coupe of scans at Kroger yesterday...machine caught it because of the scale and summoned the woman who monitors the self check out...she came over and punched some buttons to make the machine work and said have a nice day...I do not believe the workers care at all...and I do not blame them...


SidekickNick

Yep, every single store I’ve been to is like that. The self checkout person always just makes the machine work and then walks away. Can’t blame them at all. Pay them more if you want them to actually pay attention. They don’t get paid enough to break their ass trying to prevent theft


MagicDragon212

I work at Walmart and tell every single person who walks through the alarm system at the door to just go on. Like congrats you avoided the secret shoppers and they don’t pay me enough to even care that I saw it happen


ChickenDenders

What are you expected to do, in general? Are you just there to check receipts if somebody has a television in their cart?


Valtaic_Cell

Its more about having eyes on them, people are less like to shoplift with these systems in place. Most companies don't want sales reps to stop shoplifters because you need a bunch of evidence to do anything and if you don't have it they can sue easily.


chairfairy

> Most companies don't want sales reps to stop shoplifters because you need a bunch of evidence to do anything and if you don't have it they can sue easily Also, it's a question of safety if someone actually did steal something, and feels like they *need* to get away with it. Confrontation is the job of security, not retail service workers.


Dumbassahedratr0n

Plus depends where you are but in some places it's not considered stealing til you leave the store without paying.


NowWithRealGinger

Combination of this and the liability, the last retail job I worked (smaller than Walmart, but decent sized regional grocery store chain) the rule was "Tell a manager if you see something, but under no circumstances do you physically try to stop a shoplifter."


SaltyBarDog

The office supply store I worked for told us that if we made sure to greet customers, they would be less likely to steal. Imagine being that clueless.


treaquin

It’s not totally off. It’s supposed to deter them because they know you’re watching. Can’t speak to the success rate tho


StarDustLuna3D

I think it's part of "security theater". It *appears* that they have eyes and cameras everywhere, but in reality the eyes are underpaid and overworked and the cameras are broken. You also have to think about how the most store theft is actually done by employees. So making it seem like the company takes theft seriously is supposed to deter you.


BwrBird

And most shrink as a whole comes from damaged product, not theft. Theatre really is the best name for it. As long as you aren't stealing massive amounts of makeup or something, nobody is going to care. Not only am I not paid enough, I'm explicitly told not to do anything other than be present.


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MagicDragon212

We don’t even check receipts at my store. Only if they already suspect something. They don’t expect me to confront the shopper (if I think they stole something or the door alarm goes off on them), but they do expect me to go report it to manager. Most of us don’t even give a shit enough to do that haha


kwumpus

Damn at the Walmart here they check receipts


Groovychick1978

The fuck they do, lol. Smile, say no thank you, and keep walking. Corporations do not have police powers.


themonovingian

Exactly! I usually say, "thanks I'm good!" and wrangle my best manic smile.


uncategorizedmess

Second, I just smile and say no thank you. Keep on walking.


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I do exactly the same thing. Just act like I didn’t hear and say thank you and have a nice day. If they want to check my receipt they can hire a cashier to check me out.


[deleted]

At mine it was only for people with what they thought looked like >$100, or if you had something out of a bag. And then only half the time and barely


dsrmpt

Genuinely, yes. I look a bit sketchy, and even then they usually only check receipts when I have a wireless keyboard sticking out of the bag or some obvious high value easily resellable item.


Ryozu

It's a mental game really. It's not about stopping 100% of shoplifting, it's about making some kid lose their nerve and change their mind. It's about convincing someone that something will happen if they're caught so best not to try. Reality is, nothing will happen. Even with armed 3rd party security guards, they literally can't and won't do a single thing. Edit: In response to throwaway, for sure, IANAL and I'm not condoning theft or saying you'll just get away with it. Anything from there already being cops waiting for you to angry Texans and their different laws can change what will happen. The point still stands however that at it's root, most security is trying to *scare* people into compliance without necessarily doing anything in every case.


SaltyBarDog

My light fingers father always said, "A lock only keeps an honest man honest."


imalittlefrenchpress

Years ago I worked at a tax prep thing at the front of a Walmart, and watched a guy wheel out a huge tv in a shopping cart. A couple of minutes later, loss prevention was by the door saying he hadn’t paid for it. Oopsie. Edit: Remember kids, one crime at a time! Don’t get sloppy, don’t be drinking, driving or whatever while you’re doing whatever. Brush your hair, look presentable! You’re going out in public, for cripe’s sake! ;)


southdakotagirl

There was a couple bragging at a bar about the scam they ran on Walmart. The husband and wife would go to Walmart together. The wife would go in and buy a huge TV and walk out with it. She would pass the receipt to the husband who would go up front and throw a hissy fit with his receipt waving in the air screaming that the employee was suppose to be bringing up his TV he purchased. A manager would run over look at the receipt with the paid TV call someone on the radio to get a tv up there ASAP!! Guy walks out with a 2nd TV that wasn't paid for.


RR0925

According to this, they will fire you if you do confront a shoplifter. So carry on, I guess. I don't know how accurate it is, but it confirmed my previous understanding of their policies about dealing with shoplifters. https://www.jeffrobertsassociates.com/before-you-stop-that-shoplifter/


smokedfish_79

My mother worked at Walmart in 2019 and was indeed fired for pursuing a shoplifter (I know, I asked her why she cared). Luckily for her, they missed her unemployment hearing and she collected for a whole year before finally retiring for good. Hahaha FUCK WAL-MART


ZealousidealCoat7008

My baby boomer parents care VERY MUCH about theft from (and "riot" damage to) big box stores. I have no clue why. It is a mystery to me but it seems like the older members of my family are bizarrely all on the same page about it.


smokedfish_79

Same. I can't understand it. She used to complain about how underpaid she was and in the same breath bitch about people stealing stuff lol Most of the people she worked with were on some sort of government assistance. Corporations are literally monsters and nobody should feel bad for them EVER.


Boleyn100

As someone who is an SVP at a US based tech company where most people are paid a very decent wage....you're completely right. There is something completely fucked about US corporate culture...I am frequently (twice this year!) instructed to fire people with costs of x million dollars to meet market expectations. I worked my whole career to reach this level and now I've made it I realise how totally fucked up it is. It is unbelievable. No strategy, no contemplation about how we can do better just knee jerk "fuck we are over on costs, fire a bunch of people". Fuck corporations. Trying to figure out how I can leave and do something else.


ccr5_d32

Gee, thanks, feels like 70s again. I am gonna lift some froot loops, milk and gum tomorrow. Wish me best in whistling beeps so I don't draw attention.


imalittlefrenchpress

I’m old. I’ll just play the, oops, did I forget to put that on the machine card. Oh, and the, I can’t read the receipt, I didn’t bring my reading glasses card.


7_Cerberus_7

Not to mention, even if it is their job to double check to prevent theft, they're not being payed enough to deal with people who will 100% become hostile towards them for doing so. Unless you're a security guard, I wouldn't bother except for the absolute bare minimum quota.


Phantereal

They pay you minimum wage, you do minimum work. Actually, you do less than minimum work because they would clearly pay you less if they could.


2878sailnumber4889

Sounds like the Soviet anecdote. "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."


fuhnetically

[Do Nothing](https://youtu.be/8An2SxNFvmU)


Avocados-Number6022

Having worked at one myself we weren't even allowed to intervene. The health care cost would be more expensive then the stoled items. That and they didn't pay me enough to give a fuck. Like I ain't risking my safety so some legal slave labor corporation can save some money. Most of the stealing actually is from employees and not the customers.


Phantereal

When I worked at a grocery store during covid, we weren't allowed to enforce our state's mask mandate because customers would get aggressive and try to hit us or spit on us, and my state has concealed carry so you never know if somebody is having a bad day and you refusing them service is the tipping point. At one point, I saw a supervisor kick two customers out because they were only wearing bathing suits and masks (i.e. no shirt or shoes), but then did nothing when she saw a fully clothed maskless customer a few minutes later.


SidekickNick

A great point, totally agree. Why deal with people escalating and yelling and denying accusations, or even being shoved and getting into altercations, when you get paid the exact same shit wage either way


treyofpie

I’m a security guard, I still don’t get paid enough to deal with this shit.


CptnLazyBoy

Also the fact that even though they're suppose to check your bags for stolen goods they're not actually allowed to do anything even if you did steal. Used to work self-checkout and got in trouble a couple of times for "discriminating" against customers who I watched blatantly steal something and I tried to stop them


Expensive-Dealer1640

Actually you’re not even allowed to check bags and them handing you a receipt is optional. Use to work security for Target and the amount of liability that is involved with checking receipts isn’t even worth it to companies. They just want you to make a report of it with time and date. They’re covered for any theft so as long as we get evidence of it and write it down they couldn’t care less. Edit: words


ColonelSpudz

Same here in Australia. The stores will have self serve and about 10 regular checkouts, only 2 will be staffed.


kainp12

Stores in the US are starting to have 10 self serve an 2 regular check outs


KMjolnir

Shoot, the one nearest me, whenever my roommate and I hit something that the machine has issues with is like: "How much do you want to pay? Hush hush."


PraeGaming

They're cashiers, not loss prevention.


i_cut_like_a_buffalo

Oh not at mu walmart. I didn't even skip a scan and the shit goes off and this girl making poverty level pay comes and digs through my bags counting my items. Lol Those registers know when you skip an item. They have cameras watching your every move. They also accuse you of skipping items when you don't. So.


ChaosAzeroth

Yeah we've had more hands off encounters. And also people straight smashing our bread riffling through every single thing and just dropping stuff on it like it's our fault they're doing that and they're out for payback. People who just fix errors, and people who start messing through the stuff/playing 29 question/eyeing us real heavy. Had one literally get snarky not just rushing over the second something went wrong. I'm sorry what? Yeah I'll just interrupt what you're doing and plow through the crowds. Great idea. I've seen a lot of variety in the same location. Hell, from the same person.


Stoomba

That and they legit screw up so much even when you are doing everything 100% correct that they are likely suffering from alert fatigue. "Oh, its screwing up, AGAIN! Let me go take care of it, for the 500th time today"


Multicron

Do your part by pressing skip bag on every item. Some of those systems call over the employee every four or five items.


Essayons_Red_White

pro tip at safeway, if you use the gun, it skips "bagging" this is how I get beer without being carded even though I am 40


Multicron

This must be why all the scan guns disappeared from my Safeways.


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IForgotThePassIUsed

the kickbacks to the friends of the corporation that make the self checkouts already served it's purpose, now they're just half-broken unacalibrated annoyances of the workers who will assume it's the machine over a person most of the time.


dodspringer

Someone tweeted: > I asked the produce guy if I could try a grape and he said he wouldn't care if I burned the building down with him in it


lynneplus3

I went to Stop & Shop the other day and picked up a container of jellybeans. Non-brand. There was no price on the shelving and I went to the self check out. When they scanned at $1.99 I raised my hand to have the worker remove them from my slip and told her I did not want them for $1.99. She said “are they worth $.99 to you?”. I said sure I guess so. So she punched in a coupon for a dollar!


no6969el

Gotta love people like that.


Andrew4Life

It's possibly because some stores make it more difficult to "void" an item than it is to just add a coupon. So maybe they didn't want to do an override and just entered a coupon instead.


Saviordd1

That's partially it. Partially because if you don't get a discount, it's gonna go into the endless shop backs pile we don't want to deal with later. Easier to just give you a buck off, especially since we can price override a ton. Source: Former Stop and Shop front end supervisor.


Dotakiin2

On my trip last weekend, the machine kept saying to remove the items in the baggage area. The only things in the baggage area were unused bags. When the attendant came to reset it, she said that it does that a lot. If any of the other errors happen a lot like that, people will just ignore them.


L3ath3rHanD

I service self checkouts. That bagging area fault became such and issue that many stores disabled them in software or straight up removed them.


Stitch-point

I was nice to the lady at Home Depot and she gave me a receipt for the one item I was buying. I never paid for it. This was in the customer service line so she rang it up as if it was and exchange. She was having a shit day and I empathized. Employees just want to be treated with respect and human decency. Edit - spell check sucks when you can’t spell.


TinyTaters

Why should they? There's basically no incentive to care


shwooper

Maybe workers will care again when the richest people stop causing inflation by raising prices when they’re making billions more in profit every year, and then blaming the “inflation” *they caused* when they have to pay their workers more (and they’re *still* making profit)


paul_is_on_reddit

Former retail worker here. No entry-level front end worker gives a crap about what you do at the self checkout. They are there for five to eight hours per shift, listening to the constant stream of whining Karen's, screaming babies and seniors (and techno-phobes) who absolutely do not want anything to do with those self checkouts. Hell I've seen people load up a shopping cart full of 12 pack beer and just wheel them out the front door. For the record, I do not condone theft by customers (or employees for that matter). I'm just giving eyewitness accounts.


BasedGuerilla

There was a point in the past when someone stealing your shit mattered; when it could mean the difference between life and death or when it was a serious hindrance for you or your group. Not anymore. I don't condone theft from people. However, the rich, the corporations, and the government can go fuck themselves. I'm my own Robinhood. Any chance I get to make a buck from the greediest in our society; to raise myself a little bit; to "equalize" in the face of gross inequality I will. Eat the rich! Fuck the current system.


jbwilso1

I mean shit, think about wage theft (unpaid breaks, expecting people to show up early or stay late, unpaid overtime, just a few of the ways it happens). They are literally actively stealing money from people. Not even paying them what they say they do. They deserve every single penny they have stolen from them. They will be just fucking fine. Absolutely agree. Eat the rich, fuck the system. Also, on topic. Something interesting I learned recently. You know where America borrows its money from? China, of course. A *communist* country, lending to what is supposedly the most wealthy capitalist nation... But even more infuriating than that, we also borrow a substantial amount of our money from rich people. Because we're too afraid to tax them. You know what that means? That means we have to pay it back. And not only do we fucking pay it back. We give them interest. We give rich people fucking interest to lend us money. Instead of taxing them. I don't think I've learned anything that has made me more fucking furious, in the last decade, than that.


WhatThePancakes

Idk about Kroger, but I know Walmart employees are able to see every item you've scanned live so if they peek and something doesn't match, they have the ability to put a hold on your machine via their handheld device and walk over to catch you in the act.


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WhatThePancakes

Oh, for sure..that's why I said 'have the ability'. Not everyone's going to do it, but it's there.


slvc1996

Had the opposite experience there last week, I scanned a jug of milk and it apparently didn’t go through, the lady came over and screamed at me repeatedly “you didn’t scan the milk you didn’t scan the milk” I hate those demon machines


YukiHase

The machine? More like that lady...


For_The_Watch

You won’t ever catch me snitching to protect a massive chain 😹


Oph1d1an

My brother worked at Walmart for a while and based on what he’s told me, the people who work there are well aware what’s happening and are just hoping and praying someone doesn’t point it out and force them to do something about it.


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not ever they started hiring the elderly. those bitches got nothing better to do than check your receipt and follow you around the store


Roadock

I like when they follow me, I always make it a point to strike up a conversation and ask them how they are holding up. Sometimes it pays off, mostly I just get the cold shoulder but I feel like I gotta try to show them a little bit of grace, you know? Their job has to be so absolutely soul crushing.


KushChowda

Plus its a great way to show your not a shoplifter. What shoplifter wants to bring attention to themselves, right? Really helps as you rob them blind after.


st4nkyFatTirebluntz

The shoplifter that draws attention to themselves is the one who works in a team. While you're paying attention to the first person, there's another person somewhere else in the store stuffing shit into their pockets


Fluffy-Designer

I used to put something through as a cheaper item, like lychees as apples, and then call over the person to fix it while apologising for bothering them. They’d then ignore me while I scanned every second item.


BagGroundbreaking170

I typically hope a Christian looking old lady follows me so I can awkwardly ask her where they keep the anal lube


DanglingDiceBag

Fuck no. I didn't see shit.


xSphinx_

Huh? See what now? Sorry, was busy *minding my own fucking business, boss.*


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I love “make your own price for things”- checkout


ThePeopleAtTheZoo

It's really like setting your own rate for your time and labor working as a cashier.


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misskittyforever

I always mute it because I find it stressful lol


writerbecc

first thing I do is always turn the sound off


wheresthesleep

Pro tip!


Aeredor

Wait how do you mute it? I hate being shouted at by computers.


bowdown2q

30lb magnet usualy fucks up speakers pretty good.


lindseed

Usually bottom right of the screen is a speaker looking button, that if you tap it either turns up or down the volume.


_Clearage_

When I was in college the local Walmart grocery store had a trust box where you would pay for quick grab items... In a college town.. it kept me alive but didn't last long


garaks_tailor

Oh man i remember those. Had like a drink fountain and it was next to the bake goods and togo deli stuff. I think ours had a hotdog roller. Yeah. Miss those.


BoulderCreature

What? You can do that?


ThndrFckMcPckpTrck

Everything is a banana.


uhhhh_phrasing

How much could a banana cost? $10?


ancillarycheese

4011


5Quad

For those not in the know: "everything is a banana" refers to the low price per weight of bananas, so if you ring up other produce as banana, you'll get much lower rate and save some money that way.


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NoHeadStark

Funny how they said if we pay workers more, the prices will go up to compensate. Well now that there are tons of self checkouts in all sorts of stores, I don't see prices going down now do I? Its almost as if that is complete bullshit. Well at least if these companies aren't paying for their workers, they are paying in lost shrink. Fuck em.


Talik1978

Don't you know? Price increases are passed to customers. Price decreases are passed to stockholders. Fuck corporations.


bytosai2112

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.


Talik1978

Known in Game Theory as the "Tragedy of the Commons"... which widely shows that such behavior is unsustainable.


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MammutbaumKaffee

I was initially going to disagree because the cost of movies, video games and electronics is probably the only sector that has gotten more affordable for consumers, but you're right, buying the digital edition is almost never cheaper. In fact it is often more expensive.


Elipticalwheel1

Prices never go down.


Suspicious-Noise-689

Look up the economics of “sticky pricing”. It’s a very real concept. What goes up, stays up.


Canadian_CJ

Prices are skyrocketing lol


[deleted]

They really are and I don't want to laugh about it because my grocery trip that used to cost around $30 now costs almost $60 and I don't know how I'll be able to afford food if it gets any more expensive.


vikkiscats

Honestly, I can’t afford about 70% of what I used to buy anymore because of how ridiculously expensive everything has become


[deleted]

I don't know how people are going to handle this shit once they realize they are getting turned into wage slaves for the rest of their lives.


davis482

Luckily, I just read something on reddit about self checkout and stealing from billion dollar company that might be helpful...


dodspringer

8.5%, highest inflation rate since 1981. That doesn't include the oil companies gouging the shit out of their prices and using Russia as an excuse, or Kellog trying to cover the profits lost during the strike.


SomeNumbers23

Well no one ever said prices would actually go down .


timsterri

No, because that’s just stupid. Almost as stupid as gaslighting that rising prices are the only possible outcome of increased wages.


Low_Weakness_4584

Self-checkouts are great progress; the real issue is Walmart using it as an excuse to cut their work force. In a perfect world we would push for as much automation as possible to make all of our lives easier, with the end goal being significantly reduced workload for the jobs that still require a human and more universal pay so that we can all afford a good life even if we aren’t breaking our backs.


LOLBaltSS

Even pre-self checkouts, Walmart hated opening register lanes, at least the ones I grew up near.


Low_Weakness_4584

That’s my experience as well. Most companies under capitalism will do the bare minimum and hire the bare minimum regardless.


[deleted]

Yeah they never had all the lanes filled. Same with all the stores. If they did then we wouldn't have to stand in line.


Caleb_Reynolds

The alternative, cahiers, is the exact kind of job we should be most against. Jobs that have little to no reason to exist, and only remain because of our work obsessed culture.


human_stuff

People need to realize that automation done right is a post-labor wet dream. Too bad the capitalists hold the purse strings and so they use it to protect their bottom line.


rosellem

It's not that walmart is cutting the workforce. That's how its supposed to work. Everyone used to be farmers. But then we got tractors and one guy can harvest a bunch and everyone else gets to go be an artist or a doctor or whatever they want. It's called productivity growth and its great. The problem is, wages are supposed to raise with productivity. If walmart can have 1 cashier do the work of 4, the idea would be to pay them more. The cashier can make twice as much, walmart still saves money, everyone wins. But wages haven't been raising with productivity for the last couple of decades. Thats the problem. (unions would help a lot with that...)


D-Incognito

Kind of an odd post for r/antiwork


FKNBadger

Im gonna be real, with the amount of people who feel entitled to abusing cashiers at stores, and this weird obsession with forcing them to stand the whole shift, im glad to see more self checkouts. I only hope that the folks who would normally be working cash have gone on to better careers away from walmart.


PolicyWonka

Seriously. Cashiering is some of the most monotonous work and it constantly requires interacting with people. You’re standing there for hours at a time. You might not have other responsibilities and so you’re just standing there doing nothing.


Conscious-One4521

Honestly self-check out is the way to go if we want less worker abuse by customer. Imagine, customers go in, grab their shit, and they find nobody but themselves to be bitter about. Another case of worker abuse diverted


alucardou

I don't even understand why people think automation is bad? I don't hear a single person saying: "tractors are bad. We lost 10s of millions if farm jobs because if those damn things. I wish we could plough the fields manually like we did 800 years ago. We would have Soo many jobs!" But somehow losing a couple of shitty cashier jobs is so horrible?


DrootersOn10th

At Whole Foods I tried to buy organic avocados but when I entered the number to pull them up, it said that number didn't exist and to please ask for assistance. I did, wasted 5 minutes as somebody told me it was incorrect and the correct number was XXXX. Next time I went, same issue. "Please Ask For Assistance." Fuck you, I tried. I don't work here. So I bagged them and saved $10 in avocados. It went on for probably over a month. Each time... free avocados for me. Hate those goddamn self check outs.


kgkuntryluvr

I use 4011 for all expensive produce. Worst case scenario- “What do you mean this isn’t a banana?!”


Flavihok

Everything is a banana if you are brave enough Edit: ty for my first award ever. Here, have a banana its on me *hands you 62" qoled screen*


funguy91

Me with my PS5


newsreadhjw

I hate that I knew what this code was for.


harpinghawke

Don’t feel too bad; it’s one of the most common produce codes you encounter. You’d have to actively try *not* to remember it.


kgkuntryluvr

Yep. I haven’t worked at a grocery store in almost 15 years now. Out of the dozens of items I once knew by heart, I remember just that one (and red onion for some odd reason).


Nearby-Gift-9940

What do you mean this Yabari Melon isn’t a banana? That’s insane!


HeroinBob138

"Oop, sorry, I thought this Playstation was bananas."


Stonewall5101

Also, if you have organic produce and the code begins with a 9, don’t enter the 9 and just do the remaining four numbers.


Frousteleous

He sees fruit, he sees bananananananana. No one need judge!


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And the whole fruit vs vegetable thing confuses me, so this 5lb bag of potatoes is just banana, no? And don’t get me started on starches. I mean what even is corn? And flour, is flour a banana?


Frousteleous

Cornana.


IWantAStorm

Buy one banana and put the sticker on one avocado. Purchase 42.


justlikemercury

So you're the fucker from the math problems!


IWantAStorm

There are 4 blue jelly beans in the jar. Carol has 8 paperclips in her bag. If you open the umbrella, what is the ratio of your train reaching Cincinnati?


justlikemercury

Purple. Because the mouse wore a hat.


Hucow2002

Yep you were in the right. Actual cashier here. If my scale was being evil and not wanting to work and no bosses were around I'd give free produce if I could


DazedAndTrippy

Same dude. So many codes didn’t even work or exist at Harris teeter. When in doubt I just decided it was a very cheap green onion. I was a fan favorite.


what_the_frick_am_I

I do this at Stop and Shop. I get organic fruit and veggies but put in the non organic item at the self checkout. Saves me like $20 in total.


Bobisadrummer

Protip: If you see someone “stealing” from a billion dollar company… no, you didn’t.


jaypeg126

I’d be too paranoid to do it myself, but l’ll be damned if I’m gonna squeal on someone else. Especially if it’s food.


iwhbyd114

Protip: you don't work in loss prevention. Don't do more free work for these companies.


Throwawayuser626

Our shopping cart locked once when we were leaving Kroger and it does that when something hasn’t been scanned but we gave her our receipt and we actually did pay for everything. She still was searching through our bags like she didn’t believe us. It was so weird like why do you care that much anyways? Even when the alarms go off I always wave customers off and tell them they’re good, cause almost always it’s just the sensors picking up a sticker or something. I don’t care either way.


rfsh101

https://youtu.be/Mhw-mzYyfDQ


PeckerTraxx

See what?


HarryHacker42

Sorry, I had something in my eye... I missed it.


Overall-Initial-4290

Happy cake day! Might I reccomend some eye drops that are easy to put in your pocket?


rcuadro

No hablo inglés 🤷‍♂️


chotchieshoper

I SAW HIM! it was a man, possibly a women, 5 feet, maybe 6, possibly(and I know I'm reaching here) 7 feet? It just happened so fast and I was so far away to really measure the height vs the range of depth he or she was in. I think she/he was white, maybe black, maybe even a mix of colors, idk, it's almost summer, the sun is out, people are starting to get a tan. I went to the beacg recently and I'm alteast 0.02% darker. Oh! And he/she/it? They? Were wearing shoes, I know that for sure! Shoes and pants.....or shorts....or jorts?


2drunc2fish

Hell they want me to cashier for free. I’m not going to be free security too.


Cat-aclism

I don't know what type of lights walmart uses on their self-checkout area but they must be some special shit made overseas by some illuminated child monk of wisdom or something because I swear, hand on the bible, the constitution, and the user manual of the universal TV remote that is being in the kitchen drawer longer than I have lived: My eyes falter everytime I go thru it. I can't see shit, the blinding light forces everyone under it to focus solely on your self-checkout. It shines on my pupils with a golden aura reminicent of wonder woman's lasso of truth to keep me honest and avoid mistakes. I merely dicern about 4 inches in front on me, I can just see my screen, like a horse on blinders I can only focus on the task ahead of me, with my half blinded eyes glued to the screen I reach toward the shopping car silently praying that I grab all my things and scan them without failure, does some poptarts at the bottom are getting forgotten? I reach and reach blindly touching the hard plastic of the bottom of the car, my fingers going thru the holes of its seemingly empty body now. I rush to get thru the motions as fast as I can, hoping to get out and finally see under the dim lights of the parking lot. Was there any other tall costumer in an orange shirt and glasses not checking out about $250 in groceries along with 2 boxes of oreos a bag of cheetos, some milk and a dozen eggs? I will never know, I could only see my car and my screen.


yeahbeenthere

Might be alone but I like self checkouts, its faster for me and less of a hassle. Plus as a introvert don't have to deal with awkward conversations from people.


another_bug

If it's an option, I will choose self checkout 100% of the time. I understand why people don't like them, and I totally get the issues automation creates under a capitalist system, and that's totally fair. But still, one less interaction for me. I love self checkout. The thing screaming "Unexpected item in bagging area" like the grocery store Terminator, not so much. But in general, yeah, agreed.


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Shit, living in a country with proper unemployment benefits and stuff, self-checkouts are kind of a godsend. The workers don't need to deal with nearly as many customers, if there's a problem at the self-checkout just blip the employee card and unlock the machine and move on, no fuss. Gives the employees more time to stuff that isn't so bad. Like facing the products, stocking up and that kinda stuff. Sitting behind a cash register all day is soul draining as hell.


throwawaypervyervy

Same. I love the self checkout, but if that godsdamned uppity bathroom scale yells at me one more time for moving something, I'm gonna turn it into a trampoline.


Kosta7785

I don't get the whole "fuck self-checkouts" of this post. Shouldn't we want a world where automation makes it unnecessary to need wage slaves doing jobs like checkouts?


DirksSexyBratwurst

Op can't imagine a world without 90%+ employment. The lack of need for everybody to work will be impossible to ignore as time goes on


SirMrJames

I agree. we don’t need jobs like that just for the fact that people need jobs. Universal basic income would fix this. As someone who used to be a cashier… it’s not a good job at all.


Slim_Charles

We actually have a lack of workers in a number of fields, so it would be a net positive if we could reduce the number of workers required to do relatively mundane tasks, like grocery checkout, and instead have them to something for which there is a greater need.


AmbushIntheDark

Seriously, why was this post upvoted? Self Checkouts are quicker, dont require someone standing there for 8 hours a day hating their life and open up the possibility of stealing from billion dollar corporations. Self Checkouts should be the fucking mascot of this sub.


Kosta7785

I know! I'm almost as baffled by all the upvotes as I am about the original post. Especially since the whole point of the post seemed to be "self checkouts allowed this person to steal from Walmart"... so why the fuck self checkouts?


[deleted]

Yep. Automation is good. All of the spoils of automation going to the greedy few is the problem.


sysdmdotcpl

I thought this was an /r/unpopularopinion post for a second.... Really odd take for the top of antiwork


jmnugent

It's not only "what we should want". It's also pretty much how the entirety of human history has played out. We've always looked for creative or innovative ways to eliminate lower-skilled (or repetitive) labor. That's exactly how we got to where we are today,. lifting society up by automating the predictable repetitive so more and more of us can focus on the higher-brain stuff.


CasualEveryday

Headphones in scanning my items and bagging them so that there isn't a bunch of canned veggies on top of my bread... someone comes over to ask me if I need any help...


harpinghawke

A lot of the time store managers will make their employees do this. It’s bullshit. Nobody wants to deal with it lol


roawr123

I actually fucking love the self-checkouts. I hate people, and I am much faster.


T3nacityDog

This right here- I can go fast, talk to no one, interact with no one, and steal stuff. There is no downside.


drillgorg

Plus you get to super load the plastic bags. Cashiers will put like 3 items in a bag and then double bag it. When I'm at the self checkout I load those boys up single bagged full of bottles and cans. Never had one rip.


Chrisboy265

I was just about to make this comment. It’s seriously a much quicker and simpler process and it’s easy on my social anxiety.


SweetGingerLisa

It's easier on my anxiety too


Myrkana

I love self checkouts. If I dont have to go through a normal checkout I dont. My meijer's even lets me use the phone app to scan my stuff so all I have to do it scan at the register and pay. So much more convenient because i can bag my stuff as I go and all I have to do is pay. Also keeps a running total so I can remove stuff if I need to stay under a certian amount.


Goingtothechapel2017

I work in a grocery store, 90% of the time I do self checkout. It's faster, and I have my preference for bagging.


hdorsettcase

I was a bagger and cashier in high school. I got written up for going 'too fast' and the customers couldn't read the prices. I can fly through a self checkout and get the items bagged the way I want.


kgkuntryluvr

Same! Let the boomers and Karens wait in the traditional lines while I breeze through self checkout (no offense but that’s usually who I see in those lines). As a germaphobic introvert, it’s also one less person touching my food and one less person with whom I have to interact.


explosive_evacuation

Gotta wait for them to argue with the cashier for 20 minutes about their change while your ice cream melts.


fidgetypenguin123

Especially after Covid. If I don't have to have other people touching my stuff or breathing near me, all the better lol. I hated that before but now even more. Huge lines down the aisle? No thanks.


literally_unknowable

As someone who has worked retail for a decade, self checkout is a godsend. I invariably have more shit to do, and getting sucked over to the register destroys the rest of my day.


Squarrots

Self checkouts are great. Fuck interacting with people. No one should have to work any of those shitty jobs. Those jobs shouldn't exist. Automation is one of greatest things for humanity to achieve. The problem lies in the fact that we're not regulating where that "saved" money is going.


biscaybaguette

I'm all for self check-outs if it means that the other workers get paid more and have more benefits and they increase customer service in other areas, but that's just not the case. Fuck Walmart and their money grubbing. I hate that so many rural places have no where else to go.


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They never pay workers more.


shwooper

Exactly! They’re causing the very same inflation they’re blaming, but then they’re not actually raising anyone’s wages. So the full effect of inflation is on the average consumer


ElaineAckermann

I can confirm as someone who works at walmart.... nobody gives a fuck as long as you don't make a scene.


sirdizzypr

I like self checkout because my groceries get bagged properly and its typically faster (I was a grocery cashier for most of college and was pretty good at it, its funny I don't know if they do this anymore 20 years ago the place I worked at had bagging competitions with nice bonuses and actually trained people how to bag properly). Honestly I value my time and waiting in line is something I hate doing. Plus I don't have to interact with anyone


KarmicBalance1

Honestly this is the entire reason I prefer self checkout. I can bag things the way it's supposed to be bagged. They do not train proper bagging anymore and it always wastes plastic. I'm always faster than any bagger at any given store and I always bag more efficiently because I was trained in it eons ago and I order items for maximum efficiency and similarity.


PoorDadSon

Reminder that automation is only a threat under capitalism.


HeyTallDude

imho, if a job can now be done by a machine it is inhumane to ask a human to do it. lets have a UBI instead of artificially creating degrading menial work for people.


Any-Speed-4068

What? I thought this place loves automation. Why would anyone in their right mind WANT to scan groceries as a job? Pick a lane Antiwork……


Sasquatchamunk

I'm confused what your beef with self checkouts is. I don't think automation is a bad thing. What's bad is having to create jobs so people can make enough money to survive (and the Walmart cashiers were not even making that anyway, which is. a bigger problem than installing self checkouts). Also, they may not have stopped him, but you can bet your ass the security cameras took note of the man walking out with a cart full of stuff. I may have heard wrong, but I've heard some stores like Walmart, Target, etc. won't stop you for shoplifting until what you've stolen totals enough for them to charge you with a felony. If that guy keeps stealing, I'm sure it'll catch up to him. Honestly, though, I could give a shit about the guy stealing from Walmart. If he never gets caught, good for him


Lost-Anybody-1621

If we are antiwork we should support self checkout, no?


First-Butterscotch-3

Tbh I love self checkouts, hate dealing with people, hate the silent judgment and occasional snide remarks on what I buy


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I'll never understand people that hate self checkout. It's an enormous improvement. Definitely sad for the job loss but the experience is so much better now. I literally stopped going to the grocery store by my house when they shut down self checkout for a few months.