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roamer65

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50. Kroger has both self-checkout and cashier lines.

Thu May 17, 2018, 08:26 PM

May 2018

Last edited Thu May 17, 2018, 09:29 PM - Edit history (1)

If I have 2 or 3 items, it is often quicker to self checkout. Otherwise I usually use a cashier line.

It’s a judgement call, based on how busy the store is at that time.

Their self checkout works ok, except doing fresh produce on it sucks.

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Walmart Gives Up Replacing Store Cashiers With Machines [View all] Sherman A1 May 2018 OP

Our local supermarket chain has these too. I hate em. TeamPooka May 2018 #1

Albertsons stopped using them because too many people were stealing stuff. Initech May 2018 #20

My pruis key fob sets off when i go marlakay May 2018 #2

I'm not so sure about this. One local Wal-Mart recently increased the number of scan & go lanes. Arkansas Granny May 2018 #3

I think folks here are talking about apples and oranges GusBob May 2018 #19

This is what I found on using your phone to pay. You still have to scan your items at a register Arkansas Granny May 2018 #21

Good gravy that is confusing! GusBob May 2018 #24

Most of the times I've tried to use these sort of things mythology May 2018 #4

For me, the Walmart self-help is very user friendly compared to other stores i have used wishstar May 2018 #5

If you want customers to use something it needs to be easier, faster or cheaper. PoliticAverse May 2018 #6

I will stand on a line if it is twenty deep. Zoonart May 2018 #7

I do as well Bettie May 2018 #27

Right there with you. Zoonart May 2018 #29

Plus... Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #31

I agree easttexaslefty May 2018 #42

Do you use ATMs? former9thward May 2018 #33

I do not use ATMs Zoonart May 2018 #43

Banking online and by phone knocked out jobs. former9thward May 2018 #44

As. Non driver I do what I can do. Zoonart May 2018 #45

THIS is my attitude. This is how we help to keep people employed. NT jrthin May 2018 #51

I refuse to scan and bag my own purchases HAB911 May 2018 #8

ESPECIALLY Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #47

I REFUSE to use any of the "self-check out" options anywhere... Moostache May 2018 #9

I hate them. I always go to a cashier unless there is a huge line and I'm in smirkymonkey May 2018 #10

Those things are good only when you only have a few small items standingtall May 2018 #11

There's a Walmart grocery store on my way home I don't go into very often. tanyev May 2018 #12

The medical testing lab I use just installed marybourg May 2018 #13

self checkout is great if you just have a few items. Mosby May 2018 #14

Same here. With a full weeks shopping it madinmaryland May 2018 #34

No wonder. They only keep two fucking registers open at a time. Their policy-Minimum 3 deep per line TheBlackAdder May 2018 #15

I tried it once at Lowe's lpbk2713 May 2018 #16

I try to avoid Walmart at all costs, but when I go to Target, I never use their self-checkouts. Tommy_Carcetti May 2018 #17

I don't think "mobile scan and go" is the same thing as self check out guys GusBob May 2018 #18

You are correct; this is different JenniferJuniper May 2018 #22

Well it is confusing see post 21 GusBob May 2018 #25

Yes, Walmart's version doesn't sound very advanced JenniferJuniper May 2018 #28

I always chat up Sheila or Ed or someone who's there Le Gaucher May 2018 #23

the only time I use any self checkout is at Costco OriginalGeek May 2018 #26

Huh... shanti May 2018 #35

they added two lanes to ours within the last year or so OriginalGeek May 2018 #36

My experience is that the general population is too dumb to operate them BannonsLiver May 2018 #30

Just saw snowybirdie May 2018 #32

I no longer go to Walmart. nancy1942 May 2018 #37

Their salary demands were too high? brooklynite May 2018 #38

From what I have understood in the past Sherman A1 May 2018 #40

At Home Depot today buying a $50 refrigerator water filter XRubicon May 2018 #39

It's the best thing that ever happened to McDonalds oberliner May 2018 #41

Not too long ago, I asked a checkout clerk DeminPennswoods May 2018 #46

Short answer is of course the companies are not saving. Sherman A1 May 2018 #48

One attendent can monitor 8-10 self checkout lanes Mosby May 2018 #56

self-checkout for me - I prefer it DrDan May 2018 #49

Kroger has both self-checkout and cashier lines. roamer65 May 2018 #50

Had the self-check out fresh produce experience DeminPennswoods May 2018 #55

Sam's Club has self checkouts Ohiogal May 2018 #52

I prefer self checkouts too MichMan May 2018 #53

Every human-to-human transaction is disappearing. We now "interact" virtually and/or mechanically. VOX May 2018 #54

Yup. And people wonder why they feel lonely. roamer65 May 2018 #57