Self-Checkouts

[mugs]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
The self checkouts are usually *decent* if you only have an item or two, but anything else is a pain in the arse. They have an estimated weight of each item and requires you to do stupid things. Some of them have a bagging area at the end. You have to place each item on there **AFTER** you have already scanned it. Now, it you have a bunch of bulky items (such as TP), this can require you to make a large mound.

That's how it typically works at stores like Home Depot, but at the grocery stores around here that have them (Weis in particular) there's a belt with a sensor that checks each item as it passes under. When the bagging area gets too full, it tells you to bag some of your items. I didn't have to screw it up more than once to realize that if you scan an item before the previous item passes under the sensor, it makes you rescan both items.

Edit: (The ones at the Giant I used to go to on the way home from work had it the way you describe)

I use self checkout lanes all the time, rarely have a problem.

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
sometimes a joke can turn into a mess...hope you got some poon from her anyways

:roll:

:roll:

No, really, if you're concerned about whether or not you're going to be getting any after any given event, you need to re-check your priorities.

I'm just messing with you since you said you were messing with her

 

[cavemanmoron]

I refuse to use them.

I want a HUMAN thats getting paid to work to check my groceries, merchandise.

I dislike the highway scanners, that are taking away peoples jobs too.
[ i agree the Easy pass EZ pass? saves time, but dislike them]

{Toll road, bridges, tunnels, Easy pass, etc...}

I don't like having to punch the numbers on a touch tone phone, when I call
a bank/ business for information,
I want to talk to a Human.

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
I refuse to use them.

I want a HUMAN thats getting paid to work to check my groceries, merchandise.

I dislike the highway scanners, that are taking away peoples jobs too.
[ i agree the Easy pass EZ pass? saves time, but dislike them]

{Toll road, bridges, tunnels, Easy pass, etc...}

I don't like having to punch the numbers on a touch tone phone, when I call
a bank/ business for information,
I want to talk to a Human.

we don't always get what we want now do we?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
Multi-part post:
1)I've had no trouble at all with self-checkout machines.

2)YOU'RE BACK!!!!!!1!!!!!!!111!!!!:heart::lips:

I figure I should spend a little time around here, so my LAN party thread has a little legitimacy to it.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Eli
LOL!

Finally read the post. That's awesome. So did you hit it?

Not that night. It was like 1AM and we had a 10:30AM test. We studied.

 

[DVK916]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
The self checkouts are usually *decent* if you only have an item or two, but anything else is a pain in the arse. They have an estimated weight of each item and requires you to do stupid things. Some of them have a bagging area at the end. You have to place each item on there **AFTER** you have already scanned it. Now, it you have a bunch of bulky items (such as TP), this can require you to make a large mound.

That's how it typically works at stores like Home Depot, but at the grocery stores around here that have them (Weis in particular) there's a belt with a sensor that checks each item as it passes under. When the bagging area gets too full, it tells you to bag some of your items. I didn't have to screw it up more than once to realize that if you scan an item before the previous item passes under the sensor, it makes you rescan both items.

Edit: (The ones at the Giant I used to go to on the way home from work had it the way you describe)

I use self checkout lanes all the time, rarely have a problem.

Strange, Albertsons is very different. You scan each item, bag it and when the bag is full you place the bag into your cart. There is no belt.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
I refuse to use them.

I want a HUMAN thats getting paid to work to check my groceries, merchandise.

I dislike the highway scanners, that are taking away peoples jobs too.
[ i agree the Easy pass EZ pass? saves time, but dislike them]

{Toll road, bridges, tunnels, Easy pass, etc...}

I don't like having to punch the numbers on a touch tone phone, when I call
a bank/ business for information,
I want to talk to a Human.

Thanks for bringing some grammar to the argument.

 

[TheSource]

I'm a loser. I like talking to machines...

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
The self checkouts are usually *decent* if you only have an item or two, but anything else is a pain in the arse. They have an estimated weight of each item and requires you to do stupid things. Some of them have a bagging area at the end. You have to place each item on there **AFTER** you have already scanned it. Now, it you have a bunch of bulky items (such as TP), this can require you to make a large mound.

That's how it typically works at stores like Home Depot, but at the grocery stores around here that have them (Weis in particular) there's a belt with a sensor that checks each item as it passes under. When the bagging area gets too full, it tells you to bag some of your items. I didn't have to screw it up more than once to realize that if you scan an item before the previous item passes under the sensor, it makes you rescan both items.

Edit: (The ones at the Giant I used to go to on the way home from work had it the way you describe)

I use self checkout lanes all the time, rarely have a problem.

Strange, Albertsons is very different. You scan each item, bag it and when the bag is full you place the bag into your cart. There is no belt.

yeah, kroger does not have a belt either

 

[clickynext]

I just skip them and go to a cashier. Easier.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
I refuse to use them.

I want a HUMAN thats getting paid to work to check my groceries, merchandise.

I dislike the highway scanners, that are taking away peoples jobs too.
[ i agree the Easy pass EZ pass? saves time, but dislike them]

{Toll road, bridges, tunnels, Easy pass, etc...}

I don't like having to punch the numbers on a touch tone phone, when I call
a bank/ business for information,
I want to talk to a Human.

Damn that assembly line, it's taking away human workers!

 

[ironk]

Like it or not, machines/computers will take over sooner or later. Its not much we can do about it....cashiers will be a thing of the past once the UPC is replaced and the self check machines become better and better. Whats the point of having a cashier that doesn't need to scan the barcode?

I am giving cashiering 10 more years...afterwards, there will be no one to take your money except a machine (if that, maybe you just walk out the store with merchandise and on your way out everything is scanned+you. Then the money is deducted from your account).

 

[tfinch2]

It sounds like a sh!tty machine at that store. I always use the one's at Walmart and they are flawless.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: ironk
Like it or not, machines/computers will take over sooner or later. Its not much we can do about it....cashiers will be a thing of the past once the UPC is replaced and the self check machines become better and better. Whats the point of having a cashier that doesn't need to scan the barcode?

I am giving cashiering 10 more years...afterwards, there will be no one to take your money except a machine (if that, maybe you just walk out the store with merchandise and on your way out everything is scanned+you. Then the money is deducted from your account).

Seriously, I don't see it happening. All this fancy-pants RFID crap can be abused and hacked and jammed by just about anyone who can solder. The technology is great as it is for lots of things, but consider that credit cards only JUST reached their full potential. These technologies have a lot of growing left to do before any adoption of them for purchasing will be anything other than ill-advised, dangerous, and stupid.

And before you tell me I don't know what I'm talking about... I did some evaluation work on an RFID inventory system, and determined that even for our relatively minimal security concerns, it was way too damned iffy.