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Should get a discount or something (lemmy.world)
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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

Reminds me of this Bill Burr clip.

"You know what I hate about these corporate chains? You go in there you're paying for a business, they make you like do half the job now. I don't get it. Like I walk in there,

- Hey, lemme get a turkey sandwich. Lettuce, tomato, on rye, with mayonnaise.

The guy behind the counter's like,

- All right, turkey sandwich, lettuce, tomato, on rye.

- And mayonnaise.

- Oh, the mayonnaise is, uuh, right over there.

- Really? Why don't you, UUH, fucking GO OVER THERE and, UUH, put it on my sandwich?"

(Yeah I just wrote that out. Why? Fuck you I don't have to explain myself to you.)

[–] admin2025@lemmy.world -4 points 27 minutes ago

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[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

But where are the mirrors?

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I have witnessed far to many people with full carts que into the self check out, and than they get frustrated when every other thing they scan throws a flag.

Bitch, SCO is for 10 items or less!

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

Here in NZ, the self checkout is the preferred option for any amount of shopping. It's so much quicker and you don't have to engage in pointless small talk. I just got home from doing some grocery shopping and they had about 10 self checkouts and maybe 2 or 3 human ones that nobody was using.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 2 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

With a cashier, I can start packing while they scan, which is way faster

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 29 minutes ago

Yes but you often have to wait to get to the cashier

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 28 minutes ago

Australia also.

At the larger chains they're pretty good now.

Its rare you need assistance and there's always someone hovering around.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

I don't enter a store without coming out with beer, an item that needs to be age verified by a cashier. I always have to stand around waiting for one of them to leave the cash register and come over and clear it.

Pisses me off.

Give me my god damned beer so nobody gets hurt.

[–] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 0 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

Yo, recommend me a beer! I don't like hazy stuff but everything else is on the menu.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world -1 points 20 minutes ago

Look, I don't know where you live, your standards, or your money situation, so it's a tricky ask. For me I drink the cheapest shit because I drink a lot of it, but I recently went to Laos, and they had a beer, like basically the only beer they have, called Beerlao, which is partly made with rice, and it's fucking FANTASTIC.

If you can find that shit on the shelves, try it out. Though tariffs just hit Laos exports with 50% so, my advice stands- buy the cheapest shit possible and drink a lot of it because what is about to unfold in the world will require you to be drunk or dead to endure it.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I suppose you might also leave trash at your seat in a movie theater or restaurant. After all, cleaning up is someone else's job and you don't even work there. Plus, you can pat yourself on the back for contributing to that person's job security with your added burden like some of the people here.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 17 minutes ago

That's not the same, in OP's case it's about the store outsourcing the work onto the customer while cutting labor costs so some rich fuck can get slightly richer, while not littering is a matter of basic social responsibility, not a labor situation.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

That's not the same, in OP's case you're doing the business’s job for free so some rich fuck can get richer by fucking over both the workers and the customers, while in the other case not littering is basic social responsibility, not labor substitution.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 0 points 57 minutes ago

Bro, are you really getting this fucking serious for a meme, chill the fuck out

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

[…] Me: "I don't work here"

This gives me big "ok boomer" vibes. Instead of this, imo, snarky response, could you not simply politely say that you prefer a human cashier?

Remember the human.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

The point is that we are being asked as paying customers to perform work which previously employed people to do it for us, strictly out of a profit motive for the store.

They are destroying jobs by shifting the workload onto the customer, so that some chain cunt can marginally increase their already immense wealth while fucking over the workers and the customers.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 0 points 3 hours ago

I AM the human cashier when I do self-checkout. People don't care WHO or what does it, they themselves just don't want to.

[–] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And I always prefer machines over humans

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Well then I have some very good news to you about your future.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Self check out is faster especially since I can scan the items when I’m picking them off the shelves. The faster I can be outside and spend less time in those kind of commercial spaces the better. And no I don’t have agoraphobia. I just fucking hate the vibes of most stores.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

But we love it when you visit... (Camera cranes in for an unrequited hug.)

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 hours ago

Just accidentally drop and break a gallon of milk on the self checkout machine. Then a human who isn't paid enough to live will take its place.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

fun fact: you can get a discount at a self-checkout! grocery stores hate this one trick!

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Uhh yeah there's a camera there now, and literally my local grocery store of choice, Food Lion, fucking shows you your ass on its display screen. Which is basically saying "Fucking do it mother fucker, we dare you, we double dog dare you."

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, better pay cash n wear a mask tho. They are starting to bust people for that.

https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/self-checkout-machine-retail-theft-shopping/64244074

[–] BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA! 😡

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago

This is what I tell my boyfriend anytime there's a line at the cash register but not self-check out

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The self checkout person always thinks I'm cute and gives me good deals

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Hate to break this to you, but you are on the QTEE list and everyone is looking at your picture while they get coffee in the morning in the break room.

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Genx here

Ok boomer

Some of us prefer non-human interaction

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Just do like me and replay a Homestarrunner cartoon while waiting in line. Then reference it like the 18 year old at check out knows what the crap you are talking about.

'I'm sorry, Mergetrude, can you halp an old master gather his particles....?'

[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Still ought to be discounted since it's eliminating jobs.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 9 hours ago

there's a five finger discount

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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago

This thread has made me feel so incredibly millennial.

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