• HalfSalesman@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    They aren’t nearly as motivated to go as fast as I am, and they can only bag one person at a time and have lines, while usually there are 4-6 machines wide open for me to jump onto immediately.

    I fucking hate going to the grocery store though.

    EDIT: also lonely old people will stop and chit chat sometimes slowing shit even more.

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      3 days ago

      Probably just different grocery stores with different patterns and workflows.

      My experience is a normal checkout line is usually a reasonable wait so unless someone bought three carts of groceries they’ll get through before too long.

      In contrast the self checkout is a clusterfuck of idiots who don’t know how to use it, people not sure where to stand while they wait because there aren’t really lines, and 1 frazzled attendant trying to cover 6-8 people simultaneously screwing up their self-checkout.

      I fucking hate going to the grocery store though.

      On this we agree!

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      3 days ago

      Ugh, yeah, i hate customers that take their damn time. if there’s no line, i may go to a traditional register, but i highly prefer waitig for self check out rather than waiting for a cashier

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      3 days ago

      I didn’t realize this was such a contentious subject.

      When this first became a big thing like 15 years ago, I feel like most people hated them. Then it becomes normalized, society shifts.

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        3 days ago

        My experience has been the opposite, I feel like they were treated as marvelous futuristic wonders at first, and now the more time passes the more I see people opposed to them. I suppose it just depends who you spend your time with.