Self check-outs at a fast food place (or boba tea etc.) are great because you can ensure that everything is correct and to your liking before making payment.
But they’re absolutely atrocious for any transaction where you’ve already picked out a half-dozen items or more.
My experience is from Norwegian shops, so it might differ from the standards in elsewhere.
item won’t scan: very rarely an issue. We can put in the bar code numbers manually if needed.
you have alcohol: a nearby staff will take a quick glimpse at me and will approve the age from their unit. Only people close to the age limit will have to wait for the staff.
discount stickers in shops here have the updated price on a barcode on that sticker.
I don’t understand the “2 upcs”-issue.
accidental scans can be corrected by the user without staff involvement.
Having lived in both the US and Denmark, I’d say the listed problems are much more prevalent in the US. The ID check being a pain, the double bar code, discounts not being applied.
It’s just a better experience here than the US lol I’m guessing it’s similar in Norway
We can manually enter the bar codes in the usa. It’s just that my fellow Americans are stupid.
Alcohol needs an ID scan.
Discount stickers work the same here, but again, Americans.
I think if I buy boxes the 2 upc thing becomes an issue.
Accidental scans need a person to confirm you didn’t steal. Although I know the people where I go and they’ll just approve it remotely when it pops up.
Wow yeah I bought a six pack of Coke or something and the scanner picked up the UPC on the cardboard carrier AND one bottle, like fuck off you’re charging me an extra bottle! Took a while for the attendant to stroll over and lackadaisically fix it at his leisure.
Advantage: when somebody is taking so long it seems like they’re figuring out their taxes, you’re not stuck behind them because the one line goes to multiple stations. At least where I shop.
Wild guess, you’re American? Because every story I hear about self checkouts in the US is this. Meanwhile in actual first world countries where they are modern systems you very rarely have any of these issues. Even my experiences in Croatia and Spain from 20 years ago had solved most of this (and please, I’m not dissing them. I’m a Swede and my experience is just that Scandinavia is on the forefront of stuff like this.)
I haven’t had to grab the attention of a worker for so many years, and from what I see with other shoppers it’s the same for them. The workers seem bored if anything because they so rarely have to help someone even with one person minding twenty of them at the larger stores.
I don’t.
Every single thing involves me getting the attention of the 1 guy who is responsible for minding like 10 of them.
You can avoid this by just ringing up all produce as bananas.
What is the cheapest tomato? That’s the tomato you ring up. Oops, silly old me, making a mistake anyone could make.
I actually would like to do that but I live in Canada and in February there cheapest tomato choosing is hard.
Red tomato might be a green house tomato and cost more than you might think.
This combined with the shit interface that truncates the names and is slow as hell makes it annoying.
In my experience (L.A.) the tomatoes each have stickers on them, with either a scan code or a number code. But you’re right the whole thing is a PITA
Loose romas
So, ten dollars?
Carrots are cheaper.
If you can find them sold by weight. Most stores in my area sell them in big, pre-weighed bags.
Self check-outs at a fast food place (or boba tea etc.) are great because you can ensure that everything is correct and to your liking before making payment.
But they’re absolutely atrocious for any transaction where you’ve already picked out a half-dozen items or more.
My experience is from Norwegian shops, so it might differ from the standards in elsewhere.
Having lived in both the US and Denmark, I’d say the listed problems are much more prevalent in the US. The ID check being a pain, the double bar code, discounts not being applied.
It’s just a better experience here than the US lol I’m guessing it’s similar in Norway
We can manually enter the bar codes in the usa. It’s just that my fellow Americans are stupid.
Alcohol needs an ID scan.
Discount stickers work the same here, but again, Americans.
I think if I buy boxes the 2 upc thing becomes an issue.
Accidental scans need a person to confirm you didn’t steal. Although I know the people where I go and they’ll just approve it remotely when it pops up.
Wow yeah I bought a six pack of Coke or something and the scanner picked up the UPC on the cardboard carrier AND one bottle, like fuck off you’re charging me an extra bottle! Took a while for the attendant to stroll over and lackadaisically fix it at his leisure.
Advantage: when somebody is taking so long it seems like they’re figuring out their taxes, you’re not stuck behind them because the one line goes to multiple stations. At least where I shop.
I prefer self checkout since they have to hire at least 2 person that I have scanned everything instead of 1 person to do the scanning.
Or I get something for free.
Wild guess, you’re American? Because every story I hear about self checkouts in the US is this. Meanwhile in actual first world countries where they are modern systems you very rarely have any of these issues. Even my experiences in Croatia and Spain from 20 years ago had solved most of this (and please, I’m not dissing them. I’m a Swede and my experience is just that Scandinavia is on the forefront of stuff like this.) I haven’t had to grab the attention of a worker for so many years, and from what I see with other shoppers it’s the same for them. The workers seem bored if anything because they so rarely have to help someone even with one person minding twenty of them at the larger stores.