Am I the only one who gets to the self checkout and is compelled to finish as soon as humanly possible?

Imagine if there was a speedrun timer on them and a leaderboard

Would make boring everyday life a little more interesting

    • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
      12·
      2 年前

      I don’t mind that, I really hate having to wait in queue for 25 minutes while someone checks out their family of 8’s monthly shop in the only open lane when I’ve got a packet of biscuits and a couple tins of soup

      Or wait for the cashier who’s fed up with their job to scan things 3x slower than I would, ask me if I’ve got a loyalty card, ask me if I want a receipt etc

      I am a rather impatient individual I realise but self checkouts solve those problem for me. I get why people like normal ones but self checkouts seem logical

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        2 年前

        I’m with you about the cashier. I don’t see how having somebody working an extremely mechanical job is a good thing for them. It must be so depressing.

        I understand that people need to earn a living, but using people to be robots is a waste of their potential. At least with self checkout it’s a bit more dynamic for that one person monitoring several checkouts.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        2 年前

        All of these issues are trivially solved by the supermarket being less of a dick. Pay your employees better, hire more people to shoulder the load - self checkout only seems logical because stores make the regular checkout process as shitty as possible.

        • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
          21·
          2 年前

          They’re always going to be able to have more self checkouts than manned checkouts, the more of them there are the more throughput so the faster you get in

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 年前

        Cool.

        The ones here are clunky buggy pieces of shit and I’d rather deal with a human with a job instead.

        But I’m all for choices so I have nothing against other people using self-checkouts.

        • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
          5·
          2 年前

          Over here they tend to work pretty well depending on which store you’re in

          In Lidl you have to slow yourself down a bit because the weight system gets confused if you do it too fast