RacingradarHard times
empireOfLoveTheir own damn fault for trying to cut corners by eliminating cashier jobs
hoodatninjaIt really should be 5% off if I have to scan my own crap. Especially the way CVS et al do it. Home Depot is the only one I don't care about because they just give you a wireless scanner and let you go to town, it's honestly faster that way and mutually beneficial.
Yeah I really hate it when they give you self checkout but make everything function way way worse than what the cashier uses. I’ve never even considered shoplifting before but I’ve come pretty close on machines that refuse to scan because they’re stuck on something 5 items ago when I’m moving quickly. Especially if it still beeps when I scan new items but refuses to actually scan it because it’s hung up on something that it was slow to get the weight of – really throws me off. It’s not my job to baby your machine for you. I’m not getting paid for it. Just let me scan my shit and go.
They are giving you a discount already by not increasing prices.
Bullshit lol
Oh yeah, let me just tell my next client that I’ve already given them a discount when I send them my quote because I didn’t raise it on them before sending it their way. I’m sure that will go over well.
I was a cashier. Cashier jobs suck.
The problem is society in general. We SHOULD be getting rid of every non-rewarding job we can. But we also need to support the people that would otherwise have these jobs.
Oh, oops! I fortgot
I got march of shamed once because I genuinely forgot, it somehow shortcircuits my brain when I need to wait for approval, thinking I've already paid and walk out :|
Not again, I’m so clumsy.
“I’m not good at learning new things and this is kind of like learning a new job just to shop here, haha”
bob_wileyIt makes you wonder when it will be cheaper to hire back cashiers to avoid so much loss to theft.
Oh no, they’d rather just raise prices to cover the shrinkage.
...Or just raise prices because they want to increase margins and lie and say its because a massive increase in theft or inflation or whatever they want to say and then laugh about it on a public earnings call that you can raise prices however you want because consumers still have to buy certain goods no matter what.
“We have not seen any material reaction from consumers,” P&G CFO Andre Schulten said. “So that makes us feel good about our relative position.”
There it is folks. Straight from the horse’s mouth. They won’t do what’s in the best interest of humanity without “material reaction” (ie; an arsonist or maybe even something more extreme.)
IverCoderNot an American, isn’t there a limit on how you can raise prices? At least in my country we have "SRP"s (suggested retail price) and whoever exceeds that will need a good reason to do so, and simply citing theft will not be an enough reason.
We have the MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price), but that’s not given for every product, but more importantly it’s exactly what it sounds like; a suggestion. There’s no governing body to make sure stores are in line with MSRP.
If they concluded that they could raise prices to increase profit, they’d do so regardless of theft rates. Those are separate issues.
Where I’m from you still have to go through someone who makes sure all of the shit in your cart is in your receipt, it adds like 30-60 seconds and it’s a single employee for six checkouts.
I know Costco and Walmart do that. The majority of normal grocery stores around me do not. That’s one reason I rarely go to Costco or Walmart. With Costco they have cashiers as well, so it seems like they don’t need to have the 2nd person. It feels like they assume customers are criminals until proven otherwise.
Criminal until proven otherwise for checking that you didn’t miss anything in your cart? That’s extreme, people do make mistakes, if you actually want to steal you can still pocket stuff, the employee likely won’t give two shits since that’s a job for a security guard like it’s always been.
If you’re paranoic about being perceived as a potential criminal that’s fine, you do you, but labeling any sort of basic control as an accusation is not cool, might as well label the presence of a security guard as such.
At Costco they have cashiers and they have your cart and verify it’s empty/everything was scanned. I’m not really sure what the 2nd check is for, other than wasting time.
What second check?
The cashier scans and checks everything at the register. Then the person near the exit goes over the receipt with their highlighter. 2 checks.
My bad, I thought self checkout was when you scan your items yourself
It is, but I’ve never been to a Costco that has that, though I’ve heard recently that some exist.
Receipts are checked regardless of how a person checks out.
I think I found the confusion, you keep talking about Costco when I’m talking about self checkouts in general, I don’t think that chain even exists in my country
If it’s all self-checkout it makes sense that they may check receipts. Where I’m at I’ve never seen the two linked. We self-checkout, then walk out, or go see a cashier, then get checked again. So when receipt checking came up I jumped to my experience there, which was alway separate from self-checkouts.
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It does what it’s told
I really confused the person monitoring the self checkout on one occasion several years ago.
I paid with cash, and was supposed to get something like $2.17 back in change. The machine gave me the seventeen cents just fine, but instead of two dollar bills, I got a one and a ten.
It took a couple tries to get the worker to understand that the machine gave me too much back.
If that was me I was trying to help you lol.
Next time just accept your Bank Error in your Favor card. Corpos ain’t hurting lol
☆Luma☆I’ve had people try to slip me deals when an error occurs but I’m so genuinely in the moment I can’t see it. Leads to awkward exchanges where they’re trying to push free food on me and I’m just like “nah just a mistake bruh here ya go!”
And then facepalm 10 minutes later when the situation catches up.
This and flirting lol
Relatable.
Solaris1789Fuck self checkout all my homies hate self checkout
PSA: remember, if you see someone stealing essentials like groceries or whatever: no, you didn’t.
Respectfully stfu and leave that on reddit
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Remember, if you see someone stealing groceries, they’re not poor, poor people don’t seal.
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stealing essentials
stealing only essentials, you mean.
Steal a bit of food for today, didn’t see anything and the food bank may just be too far. If I’m on the ball, I’ll try and pick up the tab. You touch the earbuds or lego, though, I’m finna report it.
I’m a grocery store worker and I’d rather just lower our stock count by 1 than have to go stand lookout at the exits of the store. Big chain supermarkets budget for theft and it doesn’t affect the workers.
I understand the whole “why should I pay for things when they don’t” dilemma but people stealing non-essentials likely suffer in other ways
The dilemma isn’t why should i pay when others don’t. It’s “do i want to live in a society where people steal?” Because if the answer is yes you have no right to complain when people steal from YOU. Sounds like people on here don’t want to be stolen from but are okay when people steal from others especially a faceless corporation. Grocery stores have thin margins though and have to raise prices for shrinkage, inflating an already inflated index. For what so someone can have some electronics they don’t need?
sapient [they/them]Private property is not the same as personal property lmao.
Also grocery stores are hiking prices to make more profits for execs, not “because of theft”. I actually think stealing from grocery stores is a bad idea for simple practical reasons (the cost of being caught is way higher than what you save by doing it), but I don’t think its unethical <.<
When is it ethical to steal then id love to hear your thoughts? Can i steal from you?
NuttemanYes i am absolutely okay if people steal from a faceless corporation because one of the parties is people and the other is, again, a faceless corporation
So what if i steal from the government because it’s faceless too? Cheat on my taxes etc.