Community Chat

[judianne]

Walmart checkers spend a lot of time visiting with customers and move things slowly over the scanner . Need to watch Aldi some time ! 

[bonnielu]

I only use cashier check outs.

1.  I am not all that wonderful at self check outs.  A reall hassle for me

2.  I am not getting paid to do it.  LOL

3   It takes jobs away from people

I hope they all go away.  I know THEY will eliminate many of them because of theft.  Some theft is just an honest mistake and some theft is on purpose.  

[goldensrbest]

GLAD.

[PansyBoo]

At Walmart I will believe it when I see it. They have invested heavily in self-checkout. 

And to those retailers who have seen increased theft due to self-checkout....well, duh!!!  

[gardenman]

Here in NJ, we have to use our own bags to pack stuff, so you might as well use the self-checkout. It's just easier. You take something from the cart, swipe it over the scanner, hear the beep, and bag it. 

If you use a "normal" aisle, you take the stuff from your cart, put it on the conveyor belt, wait until your cart is empty, then race to the other end and start bagging everything. The "Bring your own bag" rule has slowed things down to a crawl in many of the "normal" checkout lines. You often end up with several people with piles of groceries bagging things up as everyone else waits for them to get done.

We have lots of people with a surplus of "reusable" bags now as every online delivery order requires you to purchase bags. I think Walmart charges $0.45 per bag when you order stuff from them, even if you don't want or need any more reusable bags. And now the "reusable" bags are filling up the landfills. You only really need so many reusable bags and if you order stuff for delivery regularly, you end up with way, way too many "reusable' bags and people are just throwing them away instead of the "one-use" bags. They've become "one-use" bags. Just really expensive ones.

[depglass]

I think our Walmart used to have a system where the item was weighed on the spot where you put the bag.  They knew when you hadn't loaded it.  But it certainly wouldn't help with thieves, because the items were not run through in the first place.  Now ours is just like every other one.  I'm thinking this policy may be tailored to different rates of shoplifting.  A little might be tolerable.  We'll see.

[Spurt]

@gardenman 

Some of the self check outs work better than others---Our grocery store HEBs is the best, something usually goes wrong with self checkouts at Walmart or Target---then the line is stopped while the customer looks for an Associate to help solve the issue 

All I have to say is I'm so glad I live in Texas.....With the exception of Costco & Sams our grocery stores still have FREE plastic bags and they have baggers to pack your groceries up for you (although with some baggers I would prefer to do it myself).......Now recyclable bags are also available.  Personally, I prefer the recyclable bags because they hold more and are stronger while the plastic bags under pressure from the "greeny groups"  the bags seem to get thinner and thinner.  Ive had the misfortunate for the baggers to put a can of soup, can of tomato sauce, a bottle of salsa, bottle of olives, jar of mayonnaise all in the same bag, I lifted the bag to carry into the house and the flimsy bag broke leaving me with a big mess to clean up---SMH!!!!  The grocery store HEB recyclable bags run $1.00 to $1.25 but they have nice seasonal designs (wild flowers for spring, Fiesta, Christmas, the Spurs etc etc---collect them all)---LOL!!! BTW health departments tell you to wash the bags out in soap and a certain temperature of hot water, so you are absolutely right, people dont do this so most just buy a new recyclable bag that goes in the landfill!

Although, stores here have threatened to charge for the use of the flimsy plastic bags---no one wants to make the first move and be the "bad guy"......At first Instacart had their own bags, but now they use the store flimsy plastic ones, but the shoppers have the good sense to double bag when needed....

I dont understand it, some are all concerned about the plastic bags and straws.....meanwhile they dont seem to be concerned about lithium batteries used in phones and other electronics or electric car batteries going into the landfill and possibly water recharge zones....SMH!!! Or that the new titanium in phones are destroying the rain forest...or forcing people to buy everything electric which puts a strain on our already strained electric grid---wait until people dont have heat in the winter and cant use an A/C in the summer because the grid is over the max, there's currently no solution on what to do with used up solar panels and wind power turbines...there's absolutely NO COMMON SENSE THESE DAYS!!!  And the major culprits of pollution those countries continue to be allowed to continue without any restrictions although they are 89% of the problem---All the U.S. and Europe does only matters 11%, and what differenc does it make if the U.S. buys fossil fuels from Saudi and Venezuela but restricts USA from producing ARENT ALL FROM THE SAME PLANET????---SMH! JMHO......
 

[ValuSkr]

I believe Wegmans is ending its self checkout app, SCAN, which lets shoppers scan items as they walk around the store and then walk-out, charging their purchases to a credit card.  However, it's keeping self checkout stations, which are always watched by an employee.

Recent headlines about Wegmans "eliminating self checkout" were deceiving, to say the least.  Clickbait, perhaps.

[eadu4]

@minkbunny  Yes there is theft in the self checkouts but the problem exists whether the self checkouts are there or not.  The problem is prosecuting the thieves.  You can try to deter it but it will always exist and they will just find a work around to the deterent.  People have been stealing since items were sold.  The biggest way to slow down theft is accountability, prosecution and punishment.  Until that happens, taking the self checkouts away may make a small overall drop, but they will just find another way and we will still be paying for the shoplifters. 

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@ValuSkr wrote:

I believe Wegmans is ending its self checkout app, SCAN, which lets shoppers scan items as they walk around the store and then walk-out, charging their purchases to a credit card.  However, it's keeping self checkout stations, which are always watched by an employee.

Recent headlines about Wegmans "eliminating self checkout" were deceiving, to say the least.  Clickbait, perhaps.

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@ValuSkr  Our Wegmans doesn't have the the self checkout scan you are talking about only the self checkout.