>>22002290
Skill issue.

I'd like to talk about Walmart's self checkout using AI to speed up shoppers. When I put a bag of things on the scale and tap "lookup item" it 9.5 times out of 10 correctly identifies what I've set down there. It also scans my face likely as fraud protection, but likely keeps it in a gay little file on their servers.

>>22002290
Yes
It’s fucking annoying
Also, the stores that offer self-checkout with the long belts spaz out about the weight everything you put a product on it.
I’ve started using the cashiers again unless it’s actually just a couple of items. It’s kinda nice

>>22002293
Not reading beyond the first two words. Suck my dick.

skill issue

Rule of thumb is if you have more than 3 or 4 items just go to the human checkout, ESPECIALLY if you have booze or anything of that nature, otherwise enjoy standing there for 45 minutes looking for a zoomer to authorize the transaction while they type your personal details into their spyware system

Don't they have some "I don't want to bag this item" thingy to tap on the filthy, shit-encrusted touchscreens?
Just tap that and bag in your trolley, ya dingus.

>>22002300
Grandpa, thats some strange head canon you're telling. They have PDAs that can authorize it remotely if you look old enough.

>>22002310
you have clearly never used self checkout and rely entirely on mommy to buy tendies for you

>>22002311
>PDA
And you're calling me the grandpa, lmao. Let me guess you still call them "smart phones" too?

>>22002312
I rarely use self checkout and I haven't had "tendies" in over twenty years kiddo. Might have been as far back as the 90s. Y'know. Before you were born.
Nonetheless, the few times I've used it, there was absolutely an option for "I don't want to bag this item" as well as one for "I removed an item or bag" if you take something out of the bagging area. Maybe it's only certain chains that have it. I don't know. I just use the normal, human-run tills.

>>22002327
>>22002310
This. How the fuck else After you supposed to get 50lb bags of dog food or cases of whatever? Just click "skip bagging", you fucking retards.

>>22002327
>kiddo
Mad.

>>22002290
>>22002295
>retards go into the express checkout (10 items or fewer) area with a full cart
>"REEEEEEEEEEE THERE'S NO ROOM TO BAG MY CART FULL OF FROZEN FOOD THIS IS THE STORE'S FAULT I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT"
this is what an average American education gets you

>>22002340
There’s one regular manned check out and there’s 3 old cunts in line there with full sized carts of food AND they’re all using coupons. I’m not waiting there with my mini cart of food.

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>>22002290
>Can we talk about how when shopping for food to cook there’s no FUCKING room to bag FUCKING anything on these things?
THIS x1000
God I though I was the only one having to play tetris with the checkout tray and my shopping cart for bag space.

You can take the bags off it and put them into your cart.

>>22002348
No. You can’t.

>>22002349
I guess it depends on the store, but both Walmart and Kroger here will let you. You can even scan things without taking them out of your cart which is nice for bulky items.

>>22002293
I have no idea what youre talking about with anything you said

>>22002356
He’s mentally ill, ignore him.

>>22002293
>It also scans my face
wear a mask

>>22002336
That you never noticed the "I don't want to bag this item" thingy? Yeah. You sure are.
>>22002334
>>22002351
Exactly.
>>22002349
Like the other two guys said, how are you expected to put a 50lb dog food bag on a walled scale the size of a dinner plate and put your additional purchases on top of it? There's got to be some "I don't want to bag this item" option. OP's whole premise is imaginary. It's a non-issue. Or, in OP's case, a naan-issue.

>>22002310
>>22002334
>>22002383
Even in the low crime suburb I’m in, doing that more than once triggers the fucking observer to come over and put a code in to confirm you’re not stealing

>>22002378
>>22002356
No, he's right. I shop at a different store and the few times I've used self checkout, the screens actively display a feed of the cameras (there are multiple) scanning both your face and the contents of your trolley. One even stopped me from tapping "finish and pay" for about a minute because it detected my gym bag in the trolley and asked if I was sure I scanned everything, displaying the feed of the trolley and my unscanned bag. After that minute passed, it let me tap "yes" and proceed to pay and GTFO.
I've also seen stores where cameras at the entrance scan faces as shoppers enter. In fact, a friend of mine, a security guard at a supermarket, told me that he caught a guy as he was coming in yesterday because the cameras flagged him as [insert name here] (yes, he told me the guy's name) who was already banned from the store for minor theft in the past (chicken drumsticks down his pants and a stick of deodorant in his pocket).
The guy said "I didn't know I was banned" and my buddy was like yeah, nah, leave or management will press charges for trespassing.
They absolutely do use AI and facial recognition these days.

>>22002290
Self-check-out = 10 items or less
Anything else = scanners or cashiers

>>22002340
Hey faggot
The space pictured can be taken up easily by one gallon of milk. How many items is that?
One gallon of milk?

>>22002399
what the fuck is a gallon

>>22002380
cant. the bootlickers who inhabit walmart will start having mental breakdowns in the aisles as i pass, screeching about personal freedoms with tears in their eyes.

>>22002400
This thread is for Americans. Dirty third worlders aren’t allowed.

>>22002408
Do it anyway, pussy.

>>22002342
>know the correct solution
>choose to be a retard anyway
like i said: American education. also most likely a Trump voter

>>22002484
The correct solution is to wait for 3 retards?

>>22002485
ok at this point you have to be underage and as such you need to cease using this website or else i will be contacting your ISP which will then contact your parents and inform them of this

>>22002290
don't know never use them

>>22002498
You didn’t answer my question or say anything related to this thread, food, or cooking.

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>>22002498

what the fuck is wrong with you retards, you bag it and put it back in the cart. nobody ever hassles me about it and the clerk only gets called over if the machine thinks i missed scanning something (like if i scan one item twice then put the other identical item straight into the bag from the cart)
don't tell me you people shop like EBT urbanites and drag three heaping-full carts around the store
>>22002327
imagine being slower checking yourself out than the stoned teenagers manning the cash registers
maybe nobody gives a shit what you're doing all day, but people who matter have shit to do and Yolanda isn't getting me out of the store faster than I get myself out
>>22002340
those are not the express checkouts, anon, the normal self-checkouts all look like that at Walmart
>>22002349
the only place i know of that does this is a very small regional grocer which added self-checkouts as an express-only option. their system spergs out completely if you take anything off the scale-platform next to the scanner so I just don't use them there unless I only have a basket
>>22002380
better make it a rubber obama mask, your bone structure is unique and AI absolutely can identify you, especially from as close as the self-checkout cam

also don't forget that your thefts absolutely will be tallied across time and Walmart et all will wait til you've stolen enough to cross the threshold for a serious theft charge and then have you arrested once you've taken enough rope to hang yourself
if you're going to be black about it, at least be a smart little pickaninny and tabulate your thieving so you don't steal more than the limit for larceny from one retail chain in a year.

>>22002548
You’re wrong.

>>22002400
she's on my cock right about now

>>22002551
k

They would prefer you not have enough items to make space an issue. Also some union stores will enforce 10 items or less policies to comply with the UFCW's demand to protect cashier hours. Nevermind that there are hardly any cashiers at all.

>>22002548
>those are not the express checkouts, anon, the normal self-checkouts all look like that at Walmart
no they aren't you stupid fucking retard. that's the express area that was EXPRESSLY made for people with a handful of items. you want to checkout a shopping cart of items? go to the lanes with the dedicated wagies. holy shit why is this so hard to convey?

>>22002603
There is only one lane with a dedicated employee, and there’s 3 old people in line there with full carts and they’re all using coupons. I’m not waiting for that.

>>22002290
Its to stop thieves like you

>>22002394
I live in a very low trust area and I have no problem. You must just be brown or something.

>>22002400
>Anon is from the savage lands of Not-America
>Bitches about American terms and units of measurement because he's a filthy remnant of the caveman times where America did not exist
>Demands that civilization un-civilize itself to conform to his subhuman terms
Its a gallon, you faggot. As in 128 oz. You need to learn to speak American, we don't need to learn to speak Not-American.

>>22002380
Jogger detected

>>22002548
>Yolanda isn't getting me out of the store faster than I get myself out
What does that have to do with the post you're replying to, retard? Guy days he doesn't use self checkout. He didn't say anything about it being about speed. He implied he's a germophobe.

>>22002621
Most US measures existed long before the USA and are a product of the founding fathers being francophiles. They had ordered a set of metric standards with full intent to switch the US to metric but the ship sank and then the civil war distracted everyone.

>>22002290
because those are supposed to be for shoppers that just forgot to grab the garlic, not full grocery shopping.
you are still required to interact with the ugly girl behind the register, anon.
no free rides.

>>22002654
There’s only one manned check out lane.

>>22002658
that's fine, you know your lonely ass ain't got nowhere to be.

>>22002665
It does have somewhere to be. Anywhere but the grocery store. You’re not actually solving the problem, you’re just being a cock.

Reminder that only slaves use self-checkout.

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>>22002677
>t.

>>22002400
A large boat (L) (S in america)

>>22002290
dont have this problem in uk. every self checkout has space on the left for basket and space on the right for bagging

>>22002677
Or maybe I don't want a wagie manhandling my groceries with his unwashed hands?

I switched to aldi for everything that's available at aldi. The walmart self-checkout shit means you're constantly subsidizing thieves and that makes me buttrage

self checkout is for small and little items.

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>>22002732
>I switched to aldi for everything that's available at aldi.
a sound decision

>>22002750
Then why is there only one manned checkout lane open?

>>22002766
Most people are too poor to buy more than 10 items

>>22002673
>It does have somewhere to be
it does not and you fucking know it.
>You’re not actually solving the problem
there is no problem.

>>22002787
The problem is there’s not enough room to bag anything at the self check out.

>>22002766
Either the store is economizing their personnel hours due to lack of holiday or festivities, they can't or won't hire more people due to low budget, they're not training more cashiers because nobody wants to be a cashier (because customers treat them like shit), or the other scheduled cashiers called off en masse (it happens). Also managers can't order someone to open a check stand if they haven't received cashier training. No employee can be forced to be a cashier and anybody can intentionally fail the assessments if cashier training is compulsory.

>>22002805
Ok. So I have to use the self checkout. There’s not enough room to bag my groceries at the self checkout.

>>22002617
No, apparently they just care about stealing unlike your area

>>22002548
If you remove a bag it doesn't trigger an alert?

>>22002842
It does trigger an alert.

>>22002943
The interruption of the alert enrages me

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Read between the lines, anon.
They want to destroy your relationship with food and they attempt to do so through any means possible.
That means food has power. Celebrate the good and reject the bad. Leave nothing for the dinks.

>>22002954
I think they're just maximizing customer output at the inconvenience of the customer because they know we will all continue to shop since we all need food and they've monopolized the market pretty well.

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>>22002310
Meijer has an option of using your phone to ring up items as soon as you put them in your cart. Checkout is just you paying the balance due. But you have to sign up to use it so they have the ability to track you down if they find out you've been cheating.

>>22002290
lol dumb boomer can't figure out self scan

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>>22003097
Yeah, that’s what it is. Now here, put your entire cart of groceries on this table. If you take anything off you have to stop until some underpaid schmuck comes over to press a button.

>>22002290
The answer is right in front of you.
I don't remember ever leaving a Walmart without a 4 year old throwing a tantrum because they were refused the airheads candy at the checkout.

They want you to use online ordering and pickup.

>>22002993
Yeah, a few local supermarkets in my area do, too. It uses special carts fitted with cameras. You can just walk right out with it and it automatically charges your credit card or digital wallet for the stuff you put in the cart. Not sure how it works for produce.

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>>22002979
Goddamit shit for brains, you just agreed with me and you don't even know it.

>>22003105
What are you buying that's too big to fit in a bag? Also bagging is OPTIONAL.

>>22003140
Dog food, kitty litter and one pack of American-sized Tshirts

>>22002777
truthnuke and trips

These are for people buying 3-4 bags worth of items
if you roll up to these with a full cart it's your own dumb ass fault

>>22003140
Enough food for the entire week.

>>22003176
There
is
only
one
manned
checkout
lane
open
.

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>>22003126
I said a similar thing with less faggotry, yes

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>>22003124
Meijer has a weighing station in the produce department, which then displays a QR code you scan. Same for loose bakery items.

>>22002603
my brother in christ, i am faster than the wagies. i'm not wasting time while kadir tumbles my box of cheerios around looking for the barcode. yes it is a gargantuan inconvenience to have to scan and bag my own groceries but it is still less of a humiliation ritual than having to stand there while some lifelong welfare recipient demonstrates exactly how wasted my tax dollars are on public education

at least when i feed the goybox $21.50 on a $16.48 purchase, i don't have to walk it through basic fucking math to get correct change.

>>22002677
slaves do what other men tell them
i do what i please, and am thus free

>>22002777
bullshit, i see global southerners with carts heaped over the top three deep going straight on the bread card

>>22002842
not where i live
granted, flyover shithole, still largely white

i go through the manned lanes at the regional grocery chain which i do the majority of my purchasing at because they have a practice of opening checkout lanes to meet demand on very short notice. the self checkouts there do have a weight alarm, but they are very clearly marked for express use.

at Walmarts and other national retailers in my area, the self checkouts are that size, are not marked for express use and do not have a weight alarm that's triggered.

you may live in a more crime ridden shithole than i do, which is probably the case if you get an alarm when you remove a bag from the bagging area

>>22003105
>>22003155
I guarantee you don't live in a more ghetto shithole than I do so how exactly does your walmart not have scan guns at the checkout?

>>22003337
you prolly still got them wired huh
crackheads be stealing them wireless ones for less copper than they get out a penny

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>>22003335
My city is on this list

>>22003204
what's your rush?

>>22002603
I don't recall Walmart ever having a 10 items or less policy at SCO. When they're packed they send you to a manned checkout if you're paying with cash. How quickly you wish to gfo depends on you: don't pile on a bunch of shit if you wanna be out of there quickly.

>>22003289
lmao
I've been using those as just regular ol' scales since I don't use the digital spycarts. Was wondering ytf it thinks I would need a QR code lol
>>22002805
>Also managers can't order someone to open a check stand if they haven't received cashier training
What sort of magical candy fluff nonsense world do you live in? I worked at a store in high school and I started as a stockmonkey but the store had a policy of everyone doing everything so my second day, I was out on the till without training and just told to figure it out, which I did because I'm not a room temperature IQ retard.
"Training" to run a register lmao

>>22003659
>What sort of magical candy fluff nonsense world do you live in?

The one in which I worked in a store for five years.

>I was out on the till without training...

What company allows this? I know Kroger doesn't. Savant or not, they consider that a liability.

>>22003663
PetSmart.

>>22002293
I always wonder if the scanner can detect that my normal cabbage is actually savoy or that I'm ringing up my apples as another variety because there's no option for cosmic crisp and entering unknown PLUs triggers a wagie event. Not a giant globohomo chain, so maybe not but I fold the bag around the contents to obscure them anyway.

>>22003675
>unknown PLUs triggers a wagie event
Let them handle that and be liable for any fuck ups.

>>22003678
I don't want to deal with or wait on them, hence I go to the self checkout

>>22002290
I don't use self checkout on principle. It takes jobs away from people and I enjoy the human contact when a clerk decides to chat about something.
Though maybe they are an advantage in places with Indian infestations.

>>22003786
>when a clerk decides to chat about somethin
I'm not here to chat, I'm here to pay for my stuff and leave.

>>22003795
I like going to TJs because of all the transgender and nonbinary girls working as clerks being forced to smile and make small talk with me. I know they get fired if they don't but they're getting paid and it's not like I'm sexually harassing them

Not racist like the other guy though, the indian clerks at HMart are nice too

>>22002293
>but likely keeps it in a gay little file on their servers.
it absolutely builds a profile on you and what you buy

>>22003368
yeah but you're brown so it all evens out in the end
>b-but i'm wh-
phoneposters are brown until proven otherwise

>>22003886
That means you are brown too

Self-checkouts are a soft form of antiboomer gatekeeping. So for that they have my seal of approval

>>22002548
>you bag it and put it back in the cart.
Nope you cant do that. It screams at you to put it back on the scale.

>>22003916
Maybe in whatever crime-ridden hellhole you live but in good areas, it doesn't do that, as exemplified by multiple people saying so ITT multiple times. Sorry you live in Kleptoberg, Thiefy McStealsalot.

>>22003897
>n-no u!
yup, definitely brown

The last few posters are an odious bunch. Pretty awful.

>>22003919
I'm trying to move out of here, man. Just let me work my magic

>>22003919
Anecdotal evidence but based on my experiences shopping for groceries in NYC this is not correlated to how "good" the area is, in fact the Fairway checkout in the white neighborhood is far more uptight about it than the Whole Foods checkout in the black neighborhood. Guessing you're going to move the goalposts now so proceed as indicated.

>>22003919
I live in a very crime-ridden hellhole (there was a cop posted up by the self checkout when I went yesterday in fact) and I can remove the bags no problem or scan bulky items directly in my cart. I think these anons may be mentally challenged or "baiting" as the kids say these days.

>>22002290
Couldn't say, I don't use self checkout because I don't work for the store. Wagies that work for them get to ring up the sale and bag my shit for me.
If the store ever wants to give me a percentage discount, then I'll consider ringing it up, bagging, and putting my cart in the return area.

>>22003929
Just the last? This is the most shitheaded board of all

>>22003886
When you’re not a 22 year old jobless faggot living in their mom’s house you can’t sit at your computer all day.

>>22003967
You haven't been to many boards then. Try /fa/ or /k/

>>22003916
I've never seen walmart self-checkout have scales, but kroger does.

>>22003934
There’s no way that stores could have different regional procedures or different procedures at different vendors.
Everyone experiences the same thing i do.
Must be bait

>>22002293
>It also scans my face
Unironically literally 1984

>>22003934
Im not baiting. I can go to shoprite right now and take a can off the scanner and it will tell me to put it back.

>>22003982
Of course he's baiting and he's a fucking idiot. Absolutely braindead. And a colossal faggot.

>>22003978
/fa/ and /adv/ are terrible. The mods are very also very trigger happy with the ban button, they will ban you just for disliking your posts, so I stopped using them. /ck/ imo is one of the funniest boards and I know this has been discussed before but as far as successful "well adjusted" people on 4chan go this one of the better boards. I'm not American so never browsed /k/ much.

>>22002548
>what the fuck is wrong with you retards, you bag it and put it back in the cart. nobody ever hassles me about it and the clerk only gets called over if the machine thinks i missed scanning something
This is store dependent. Most self checkouts will shriek and wail if you do that.

>>22004047
/ck/ is pretty ban-happy too relative to a lot of boards, but the community stupidity is more old school, early 4chan "being retarded to be funny" stupidity, /fa/ and /k/ are aggressive stupidity and weirdly angry all the time. I've definitely gotten bans here just because a janny didn't agree with me, but you can post a thread and mostly discuss food. on /k/ every thread ends up getting turned into an irrelevant shitposting party bitching about india/iran/china/brown people, /fa/ is mostly neckbeards trying to larp as sophisticated old money aristocrats and schizos fighting over grudges they've forgotten about but they can somehow identify each other by posting style alone and they will fight ALL DAY about the most obscure board meta-drama. you haven't seen permanently online until you've tried to make sense of a /fa/ watch thread

>>22003995
And I can go to ShopRite, remove an entire bag from the bagging area and the most it will do is flash a button on the screen for "I removed an item or bag" for me to hit before continuing as normal.
>>22004004
Ewe arr knotberries mart.
>>22003933
No need to move goalposts since nothing you said contradicted anything I said. Unless you think majority white Kensington, Philadelphia is better than whatever majority black area this Whole Foods you're talking about is in.

>>22004055
>/ck/ too is pretty ban heavy
Maybe it's because I've been on here for a bit but I can't remember the last time I got banned. I suppose learning to "understand" note not "respect" board culture helps a lot to avoid the ban hammer. /fa/ would ban me for writing "gibberish" low quality posts just because I didn't fit in with the weirdos on there. I think I made a thread about where to get skate brand skinny jeans since most brands in the last few years don't make super skinny ones any longer and it ticked off the mods for some arbitrary reason, almost like they're allergic to actual serious fashion threads. I also speculate if mods/jannies notice you're a regular from your IP address/writing style they'll leave you alone but if you go to a new board they'll be very happy to ban you for no reason whatsoever.
>this board is more "retarded to be funny"
Myeah, I tend to look for boards like this. The boards with higher % of Millennials tend to be like this and the more zoomer/female populated ones can be pure cancer. /int/ is another shitty one for me because I come from a very small country so it's easy for people to single me out in other threads if I "PWNED" them in an argument earlier that day. I also learned to stop using the word "sandnigger" in my posts after getting my umpteenth racism ban lol I also heard there used to be a mod on here a few years ago that would remove EVERY thread criticizing/making fun of Asian cuisine roflmao

>>22002548
>stoned teenagers manning the cash registers
nope nice older lady who I see most of the time. she mad fast to. sometimes too fast.

>>22002677
right! I'm not a store employee.

>>22002729
>I don't want a wagie manhandling my groceries with his unwashed hands?
anon... do you know who is unloading stuff, and putting it on the shelves? pajeet. enjoy

>>22002755
aldi is a shit store for poors.

>>22002943
>It does trigger an alert.
depends on the store. some places don't have scales in the bagging area.

>>22003204
and
there
is
no
one
in
line
there
at
the
store
I
go
to.

>>22004128
> Aldi
Must depend on the region, it’s definitely the best prices on meats and grass fed meats. Sometimes Kroger beats them with BOGO chicken sales but in general their base price is lowest in my area.
Especially for cheese too
Their off brand stuff is sometimes shitty though

>>22004138
>it’s definitely the best prices on meats and grass fed meats
It absolutely is not. There's no reason to go there nowadays except for their frozen corn and frozen mixed veg.
I just got 4,25ish lbs of pork chops for under $1.50 by combining a sale ($1.99/lb) with a coupon ($7 off any meat purchase). Aldi doesn't do coupons. I also got 5+ lbs of ground beef for $15.45 ($2.99/lb). It's over $4/lb at Aldi. Chicken breast is on sale for $1.97 but it's $2.19 at Aldi. Lamb is more expensive there, too. All hail Safeway.

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>>22004122
I remember when the store I worked at had a bird infestation and customers were too dumb to care. Product cases and refrigerated products displayed were covered in bird shit. People still bought it. Always buy off the shelf, by the way.

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>>22004128
>brainpoor didn't get my witty comment

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>>22004112
Yeah the janny is really thin skinned about asia stuff. In a wine thread a while back /ck/ was incredulous that south-east asia could be a relevant wine market, I posted picrel reminding them that certain south-east asians know enough about wine to run circles around westoid "experts", BOOM insta-ban because I used a spicy word

I think it might be a western-born asian who grew up getting bullied by whites and has unresolved trauma over that. There used to be a corny web comic that got posed regularly, on the topic of filipino food getting popular, and it would never stay up for more than a couple of hours because it touched a raw nerve with someone

Anyway I guess I'll be taking a vacation from /ck/ soon, see you in a week or so

>>22002290
Try not living in a shithole country, faggot.

>>22004298
Someone posted it and it's still up several hours later >>22003908 so the old janny must be gone

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here mudslimes touch/squeeze all the fruit, veggies and bread items but there is enough space for your basket + a decent size bag

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>>22002603
Anon this is the big 26. There are no more lanes with dedicated wagies. Most Walmarts are self checkout only except for the customer service counter where you can buy cigarettes and lottery but they won't scan your groceries there. Welcome to hell.

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How do you judge the quality of a coffeeshop, /ck/? What makes you keep coming back and what are things they have to do to win your patronage?

>>22002290
RETURN ITEM TO THE BAGGING AREA
PLEASE WAIT FOR ASSISTANCE
CUSTOMER NEEDS ASSISTANCE
PLACE ITEM ON SCALE
CUSTOMER NEEDS ASSISTANCE
RETURN ITEM TO THE BAGGING AREA
INSERT CARD
PLEASE TAKE YOUR RECEIPT

>>22004812
>am i instantly annoyed by the faggots i find myself surrounded by on entry?
>is it busy enough to seem well-liked, but not so busy i'm waiting in line for fucking ever?
>can i find a suitably private corner to post up in without feeling like 500 people are watching my laptop over my shoulder?
>is the coffee any good?
>am i getting scammed for it? (i will pay stupid prices if all of the above are satisfied)
also
>is it immediately on a walking route i'm already taking?
i will not ever drive my car to a coffee shop

>>22004120
This guy gets it.

>>22002290

You're supposed to go to the manned ones for big shops.

>>22002314
>And you're calling me the grandpa, lmao. Let me guess you still call them "smart phones" too?
Well its not a smart phone they use, its a special electronic tool specific to that job. What would you call it?

>>22005188
I don't know which tool you mean. Scanner? Card reader? Tablet? PDAs were a specific kind of device from a specific era. An electronic version of the "Day Runner" paper organizer.

>>22005215
Okay, so you'll intentionally misunderstand what I said, then pretend "PDA" doesn't mean exactly 1 of 2 things to generally describe something to 99.99% of people.

You're so clever, and you'll get a lot of positive karma on this website using that tactic.

>>22005240
Grandpa, 99.99% of people think "PDA" means two people being inappropriately intimate in front of others. Yes, there is another definition in the dictionary referring to a specific kind of consumer product that existed in a specific point in history but that isn't meaningful to the vast majority of humans who were not white collar gen X with a passing interest in consumer electronics. It's a tablet or a scanner, those are the words you're looking for. You're welcome.

>>22004239
There’s nothing witty about being a pedophile.

>>22004128
I don’t care about your faggot store. Your experiences don’t solve my problem.

>>22005350
I wasn't calling you witty

>>22005259
>lil zoomzoom has nothing better to do than complain about a word or term based on how often he sees it in his gay fanfiction.

How about you PDA yourself back to bluesky or something?

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>>22005259
>white collar gen X
nuh uh
they're millenial gadgets
also drink orbitz and eat bugles

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>>22002290
those things piss me off too.
one of the krogers near me put in a few self checkouts with conveyor belts. you would think instead of having all the old lanes that have people checking you out they would just convert them into self checkouts. half of them sit unused anyway.
are boomers really that afraid of self checkout that they can't just get rid of all the in person checkouts?

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>>22005587

Unexpected item in bagging area.
Remove this item before continuing.

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>>22004812
>a coffeeshop
I don't understand the question
Are there actually places where people will sit and buy the powder I filter through paper in my kitchen?

>>22002293
>>22002395
>>22002408
>>22003986
>It... scans your face!
And? Their security cameras do that too as well as analyze your gait and clothes. So what are you getting your panties twisted over? Did you not know there were a ton of cameras everywhere in stores or...?

Also the only time I ever use the self-checkout is when I'm buying 1-2 things, which is very rare. So they could be 10x more annoying and I wouldn't care.
Maybe if you're a dummy who has to keep going back to the store every day, I'd understand getting mad at them. If that's you, then fine. But you should learn to make a grocery list and get all your shopping done in one trip. Self checkout is for niche circumstances like buying lunch from the deli or buying wine on the way to a party.

>>22005779
>So what are you getting your panties twisted over?
Who said or even suggest that? I pointed it out as factual, we're living in a minimum security prison because of certain consumer habits.
>Also the only time I ever use the self-checkout is when I'm buying 1-2 things, which is very rare.
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU COMMENTING ANYTHING, THEN?

>>22002290
I stopped using these when stores started putting cameras on them that take your picture whenever you walk by. fuck that

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>>22002290
>there’s no FUCKING room to bag FUCKING anything on these things?

>>22002311
No, by law they literally have to have a wagie manually walk over to your machine and scan a barcode on a tag attached to their staff ID.
Only senior staff can do it like Duty Managers, so if its busy and their Duty Manager is busy you can be waiting 5-10min to buy your shit because you put a can of beer in there.

>>22005869
thats a shit cvs tier setup my supermarkets have a rotating plate that you can do 4 bags at a time on

If you use these, you are literally working as a cashier for them, do you should get paid. So maybe you Don't scan that chocolate bar. That's your payment for doing the job they are supposed to do.

>>22005811
>we're living in a minimum security prison
Ok there's that twisted panty I was talking about. Walmart not wanting their merchandise stolen doesn't somehow equal to you living in a "prison".
>WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU COMMENTING
To point out how ridiculous you are?

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>please place your RED BELL PEPPER in the bagging area
>help is on the way
>mfw

>>22005622
The only time I used one with a belt it reversed and started sending my groceries back at me.

>>22002290
The trick is to acquire one of those little special barcodes the workers have to scan and get you into the employee only menu so you can do whatever the fuck you want

>>22002290
for the trouble, they give you discounts on produce. You just balance some produce off side the scale and get like 3 for free

>>22006048
SAME.
I was very disappointed

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get a tote

>>22002290

I NEVER use the self checkout lanes, too easy to be accused of stealing.

95% of the time I always need a manager to come kick the thing back into working order. So even if there's maybe just even 1 lane open where people buy their cigarettes or whatever I end up using the lane where there's a regular cashier.

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Safeway doesn't put handles on their bags anymore. They kinda really suck. Sometimes I just forget to bring a bag.

>>22007326
The paper handles always break on me. Not to assume you've got a car, but just keep extra bags in there for shopping if you do. If you don't, look into folding, pocketable bags on Amazon. I bought five for 95¢ (19¢ each on Haul). The only issue you might have is the shade. The ones I got are bright pink. I couldn't give a fuck, though.

>>22006048
>I used one with a belt it reversed and started sending my groceries back at me
kek

my retarded state is trying to impose self checkout laws out of all fucking things, literally everything they're proposing is unenforceable. i cannot think of a single worse waste of fucking time.
how about you instead fix the fucking fucked up roads and fucking 35% unemployment rate you fucking useless assholes

>>22007366
>self checkout laws
literally what?

>>22007369
https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/shopping/ohio-self-checkout-rules-changes-how-you-shop
something about theft? all of this is short-sighted and narrow-minded hogwash nonsense

>no alcohol or tobacco products at a self-checkout
there are 0 stores with self checkout that allow tobacco to be handled by a customer prior to checkout. this does nothing to reduce theft. theft is happening at stores where you can grab a black and mild and shove it up your ass before walking out. they have no self checkouts just a single pajeet running the thing. everyone else has cigarettes in a gigantic locked case or behind the counter.
and if you're giving a wagie an excuse to refuse to scan their card because i want a six pack and the regular checkouts are 2 humans and a dozen customers deep while the self checkouts are empty. you're literally giving more reason why the self checkouts could be empty.
>limiting self checkout to 15 items
unenforceable. also prejudiced against shy people. i don't want to hear snide comments about what is or isn't in my cart, the total, or anything. i want to use self checkouts to avoid normies. if a clanker self checkout starts ignoring me at the 15th item, i'll flip my fucking cart and walk out.
>discouraging from "forgetting" to scan
maybe this is an internal issue, as it always has been with self checkouts, that cannot be solved practically? maybe stop charging too much for a burrito or a toothbrush that can easily be skipped at the self checkout and maybe i'll stop """forgetting""" to scan them??

>>22007393
This sounds like someone in your state legislator is friends with a big make in groceries.
What a load of bullshit

>>22007393
>also prejudiced against shy people
No dog in this fight but you should probably be using cashiers as an excuse for human interaction. A girl cashier was nice to me the other day and it boosted my mood for an entire week

t. antisocial sperg

>>22007526
That's cute and I hope it continues

>>22002290
>doing the wagies' job for them
I hope you're at least stealing things.

>>22002290
I shop at Whole Foods where there's still plenty of manned checkout counters

>>22002290
I refuse to participate in the humiliation ritual that is self checkout

I don't care if I'm able bodied and can check out my own groceries, I'm going to inevitably piss off the weight sensor or scanner and some wagie is gonna look at me like I'm a drooling retard while they reset it, possibly multiple times.

If enough of us categorically refuse to self bag they would have to open more lanes (it will never happen)

>>22007938
saving money is not a humiliation ritual. Those sensors can be tricked all day long. What is this some type of yogurt effect?

>>22007986
I don't personally need to steal given my financial situation but I don't care if anyone else does either.

>>22008001
>she doesnt do it for a thrill

>>22008001
coward

>>22005622
I tried that one a couple of times at Kroger but after you've scanned a few items, it demands you go bag the stuff that's been already scanned at the end of the belt. I want to scan everything and then bag. It probably works fine if you have one person scanning and the other bagging but I don't know why the machine insists on it.

>>22007393
The fifteen item limit would be absolutely trivial to enforce as the self checkout has the ability to count the number of items you've scanned. That doesn't mean it's a good idea nor that it should become law, but it would be easy for the store to enforce and for the government to audit since every chain keeps track of every transaction for data analytics.

>>22008056
I’ve never been to krogers but stop and shop is the same way because there is a scale under the bagging area. They must have weighed everything and use thst to make sure you just aren’t throwing random crap in there without paying I guess.

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>>22007366
t.

>>22007393
This would kill wally world’s whole business plan. At my local store they have 3 elderly people working checkout and everything else has been converted to self checkout. If you could only check 15 items you would be waiting for an hour trying to get through a cashier. I hate self checkout but I hate interacting with Walmart employees even more.

>>22008072
My prediction is that they don't actually do it everywhere. Locations with a high amount of theft will end up with the self checkout removed but in high trust areas, they'll quietly remain. If anyone tries to make a stink about it, Walmart will claim it's an ongoing process but not commit to a specific date for completion. Eventually everyone will simply forget about it.

>>22008059
you could just check out again and again until you're done. say i brought up 30 items to scan i can just check out twice.
i could even see how actually enforcing this would encourage theft, because what if i have 16 something odd items, i'd feel more encouraged to just throw it into my bag and walk out.
i mean i'm not exactly counting my shit while i shop. maybe an estimated running total, but quantity of items is never on my mind.

i really don't think this will make it into law so i'm not too worried about it. ohio is just retarded. they also tried to ban plastic bags a while back and that backfired massively. they didn't see big coof coming and instantly the bags came back because bringing weird stuff with icky germs from home was seen as more of an issue. they also underestimated the power of the boomers around here. they tried charging for paper bags and the boomers were NOT having it. the upcharge was still appearing on receipts for a while but was manually overridden to $0.00. the popup on checkout "are you using any bags" also eventually disappeared.

the only thing that didn't disappear yet is when the clanker has a problem the AI voice still says "maintain a distance" or something like that and it's fucking annoying that i'm still hearing that in the big two six.

>>22008083
Retail theft is like terrorism or child exploitation. It's a real-world issue that affects people in real life, but (here is where the karens will be like REEEE THERE IS NO BUT because your brain is supposed to shut off): when you see it coming up in the context of a new law being proposed, the new law isn't going to do shit about the issue, it's only being raised to shut down critical thinking, and as moral blackmail to be able to cast any opposition as supporting retail theft, which politically is a very damaging allegation

tl;dr you should be very very suspicious of the motives of anyone saying "this new law is about retail theft"

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is anyone else having a really fucking hard time finding a job? I'm talking in the minwage sector too. I have applied at every fucking grocery store in town, and I got a email back from fucking 1. they proceeded to ghost me after some gay recorded interview. I have plenty of past experience too so what the hell is going on?

>>22008117
Of course not, the economy is doing great, the fact that the food pantry line near me is both longer and surprisingly well reflective of the overall ethnic mix of my region is a total coincidence

>>22002290
the horror stories with those things in my country it's just fucking stupid.
>cashiers are extremely slow and are never around
>they get fired and now we have self checkout
>people start stealing
>they re-hire cashiers but now you have to pay 10% extra from your total purchase so they can be paid
>cashiers still make you use the self checkout and will not help you at all but will wait until you are about to pay so they can scan their code and show that they helped you and get their payment.
I'm so fucking mad, every day they make things even more difficult

>>22008117
I'm sorry to hear
You probably know this advice already but just in case: if you've had white collar work leave that off your resume when applying to minwage
Do you have any former co-workers, family, or friends to put a good word in for you?
That's unfortunately the best way in at this point, almost anywhere

>>22008060
Just about everything sold is packaged with a weight on it lol

>>22007938
I didn't mind doing it when it was legitimately faster, but recently the camera watching the scan will false alarm that more items have gone through when it's literally just my fiance passing me something.
We stopped working together to scan things, and it still triggers at least once a trip on my arm. So we started using the cashier's again because it's infuriating to be stopped by robot error and have a retard (honestly not blatantly stops, just SLOW) come punch a code once they have time get to you.
I'm more forgiving of human errors too. A slow cashier or a mistake doesn't immediately make my blood boil like a robots error.
It's why I never used siri. One instance of not hearing me correctly and I'm too pissed to try again. Human misunderstands me though? I'll repeat myself as many times as you need

3 words.
High trust society.
One letter:
N

>>22008305
Why americans can't have checkout: the blacks
Why americans can't have working transit: the blacks
Why americans can't have education: the blacks
Why americans can't have health care: the blacks

At what point do you stop blaming 'the blacks' and realize this is 100% your fault? "The blacks" have been around for hundreds of years and yet somehow they just came outta nowhere and made your grocery store suck? Does that really sound like a reason and not just a way to make you stop thinking by appealing to your lizard brain?

>>22008431
Sorry anon, I'm not going let you gaslight me about things I've seen and experienced firsthand.

>>22008431
Once again proving that leftists pretend not to understand things in order to destroy any chance at productive discourse.

>>22008305
>One letter:
>N
NNNNNNNEIGHBORS

>>22008431
That anon secretly enjoys being a victim.

>>22008431
The issue is that the people at the top who used to keep blacks in line have been replaced by people who have let them become feral to push their agenda forward. No one is going to agree with a militarized police state where you can’t buy a razor without some wagie unlocking the case for you unless there is a reason to justify it.

>>22004239
I don't think I was being absurd. Many things are not available at aldi, so i can't get them there.

>>22002408
wear a kigu mask

>>22008794
It's not some hidden conspiracy that you see these policies correlate directly with regions with high rates of [socioeconomic factors]. The fuck does Trump have to do with that.

>>22008431
i thought i could bypass this by ordering the ingredients for dinner on instacart
the driver (black) stole the chuck roast

Someone got triggered by a post ITT and went crying to mommy about it

>>22002290
Huh, I just put my bag on the checkout thing and bag as I go. Thank god for self checkout, fucking hate having to wait on cashiers and make small talk

>>22005876
lol the few times I get alcohol by the time I turn around to ask someone to authorize the purchase it's been done remotely already. The only time I had to wait at self checkout is when I broke the cash machine by putting too many coins in too fast.

>>22002293
>shops at Walmart

Wow I didn’t ask if you were gay

>>22008083
it's just as easy stealing from normal checkouts as self checkouts, people never check the bottom of your bag so you can put a rag the same color as the bag on the bottom and just put everything you want under there. Only retards get caught shoplifting.
t. stole a bunch as a teen and then worked a cashier job for a summer in college

>>22010797
>its gay to get a car battery, a pack of underwear, 3 bags of mulch, and a week of groceries in 1 stop
I'm assuming you're a Whole Foods fan?

>>22011250
Not her, but that's the least retarded use of Wally World I've seen here. That place is terrible for food but if you're buying car batteries and mulch, you're doin' it right. Carry on.

>>22011267
>That place is terrible for food
NTA, but I've surprisingly had more luck with Walmart than with other stores in my area for certain goods.
Been more than one occasion where I've found myself asking "What the hell, why are you the only fucks in a 20 mile radius that have this?"
I'll be looking for shit like swiss chard, corn husk, or black garlic, and for some reason I can't find it anywhere but fucking walmart, and it's not for a lack of trying.

>>22008431
bait or retardation
call it

Whole Foods is the worst about this. I assume it's because most people can afford about two things from there at a time. I've never seen someone walk out with a whole, overflowing cart of groceries out of Whole Foods. Also, people that shop there just eat a lot less, in general.

>>22002314
Yes. They are literally smart phones at Walmart. They are Google pixels even. Walmart issues smart phones as work devices.
>t. walmart wagie

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>>22002340
>express checkout
They're just normal checkouts here in australia. Hell, the coles here even converted some conveyor lines to self checkout for larger amounts (if people decide to use them), and the regular self checkouts are even designed to accommodate the high trolleys (again, if people decide to actually use them). At any time of the day I maybe see one person actually operating a line.

>>22011307
I get what you mean but I meant prices.
>>22002290
I was at the supermarket for milk and giggles this morning and I saw something I've never seen before: a shopping cart lock as the exit door gave orders to "return to the cashier" because unpaid items were detected. Like… what in the fuck? I've never seen that anywhere before and the poor lady pushing that cart absolutely paid for her stuff. I watched her in the next lane paying for the bajillion water bottles she was buying omw out. I wouldn't have even seen it happen if I didn't stop to talk to someone. I pulled my cart aside to let her pass to leave.

>>22002293
Now I want to put my dick under the scanner to see what the AI thinks it is.

>>22011925
They’re all on ozempic and they’re going to get hanta’d

>>22002993
Your post made me remember those Amazon stores where they claimed an AI was watching you and calculating your cart but actually it was just Indians watching you on camera.

>>22007938
self checkout is always much faster.
checkers and baggers move too god damn slow and don't know how to properly pack bags.
like they all pack bags like retards, not just the literal retards (EVERY STORE NOW HAS ONE WTF!) but the checkers too.
checkers also charge me for shit I didn't buy or ring up the wrong produce item ("yellow onion, nigger, $1.99 a pound plu 4093!")
I will ALWAYS pick a self-checkout if available so I can avoid directly interacting with retail wagie retard zoomers.

>>22015581
ai was watching and calculating things but it wasn't very accurate and most of it still had to be reviewed by indian workers, it wasn't entirely indians and a complete lie that ai was involved

>>22002293
>When I put a bag of things on the scale and tap "lookup item" it 9.5 times out of 10 correctly identifies what I've set down there
Not sure if you are aware but they put a barcode sticker on most produce items. The scanner is probably reading that.

>>22015590
amen
I'm not too keen on automation and AI taking over the arts and entertainment industries but when it comes to menial bullshit like fast food workers and checkout clerks that shit can't come fast enough.

>>22016771
>Not sure if you are aware but they put a barcode sticker on most produce items. The scanner is probably reading that.
I'm fully aware. I'm also fully aware of when I put fruit down that doesn't have the sticker, it still knows exactly what I got including being able to differentiate between a turnip and a couple carrots.

>>22002293
glad I don't shop at walmart

>>22010809
its not the 1980's anymore grandpa, every square inch of the sales floor is watched by security cameras with AI keeping track of any product you take off the shelf.

>>22017930
lol keep thinking that dumbass, people still shoplift all the time with 0 difficulty. They don't have AI cams that track every product down to the customer and then cross check that with your purchases on the selfcheckout, get real bruh. I worked at a place that installs security cams a few years ago and most supermarkets cheap out with cams that don't even have 360 and don't communicate with other cams or equipment, this isn't Fort Knox. Goddamn, zoomers are retarded.

>>22015590
same, I want to shop with as little interaction with the employees as possible.

>>22017942
depends on the store
places like target track your every move and know when and what you stole and will prosecute your ass if you steal enough for them to bother with it. places like kroger cheap out on shit and they can't even get their self checkouts to work without making you hastle the wagie to come over and verify you aren't stealing anything.

>>22018197
fair, a smart shoplifter will just target stores that cheap out on stuff, just like a smart thief won't rob a house with high securiity.
I thought some states and franchises discouraged pursuing shoplifters though? I've read stories online about stores that surveil and document petty theft so that once your file is big enough they can drop the hammer on you but always thought that was an urban rumor.

>>22018222
>I've read stories online about stores that surveil and document petty theft so that once your file is big enough they can drop the hammer on you but always thought that was an urban rumor.
Target definitely does this. They have a high tech security lab with facial ID that tracks you at every store. They will literally let you walk out the door with hundreds of dollars of merchandise until you steal enough that it becomes a felony and then they will go after you.
I'm sure other stores do it to now but Target was an early adopter of that tech.

>>22018222
I know a klepto that was arrested and charged with that method.

>>22018222
Did you hear about the Target Lego thief? They waited until he stole $100k worth of shit or something before pressing charges, ensuring he goes away for a while, especially since he did this at multiple locations in multiple states.

>>22018272
>>22018298
damn, guess I let my cam installer experience go to my head, I really thought stores didn't bother with this shit, at least not in supermarkets. I don't think they'd bother with small time thieves stealing like cans of sardines and shit though.
>Augustine allegedly purchased high-value LEGO sets and then returned them with the bricks and minifigures removed and replaced with bags of dried durum wheat semolina pasta
kek the balls on this kid

>>22018277
being a klepto must be horrible, this dude that crashed on my couch once after a party in college stole all my notes and then came back a month later to apologize saying he couldn't help it. I honestly felt bad for him once I got past how angry I was.

>>22018315
Yeah, it's pretty obvious when it's a compulsion. She didn't need most of the stuff she stole, some of it was baby clothes her 5yr old was clearly too big for