You do know that when fast food places and retail stores have workers wanting $15 an hr the Kiosk will already be there and the workers will be replaced as you will have about 5 people total in a fast food place and self checkouts in the supermarkets and retail stores as they dont call off or have breaks.These are not going away folks so get used to them.
In the case of Walmart their machines aren't set up well for large orders, you basically need to get a second carriage, if you try to stack up the full bags, you're guaranteed to get the dreaded...
Unexpected item in bagging area message, you could pile them on the filthy floor, but I'd always get the customer a second carriage.
A large order is likely to contain an age restricted item requiring my approval, then you get stuff that just won't scan, or an idiot trying to pay with a check. I have to fix all that stuff taking me away from watching the screen and trying to make sure stuff scans when people throw it in their bag.
Stores lose a lot of money with these imperfect machines, and that's in a fairly wealthy area....Old Saybrook, CT.
There's no real way to tell how much of lost inventory is from say employee theft, self-check, vendors ripping off receiving, and so on
WM will surely continue with the machines. You have to know what to expect when you walk in the door, minimal sales floor asses and cashiers, don't go there to get a key made or custom paint mixed, there might only be one guy on duty that can do it, likely the same guy, he could be on lunch, most asst managers don't know how to mix paint, they might cut a key, which may not work, that's why God founded Ace Hardware
Unexpected item in bagging area message, you could pile them on the filthy floor, but I'd always get the customer a second carriage.
A large order is likely to contain an age restricted item requiring my approval, then you get stuff that just won't scan, or an idiot trying to pay with a check. I have to fix all that stuff taking me away from watching the screen and trying to make sure stuff scans when people throw it in their bag.
Stores lose a lot of money with these imperfect machines, and that's in a fairly wealthy area....Old Saybrook, CT.
There's no real way to tell how much of lost inventory is from say employee theft, self-check, vendors ripping off receiving, and so on
WM will surely continue with the machines. You have to know what to expect when you walk in the door, minimal sales floor asses and cashiers, don't go there to get a key made or custom paint mixed, there might only be one guy on duty that can do it, likely the same guy, he could be on lunch, most asst managers don't know how to mix paint, they might cut a key, which may not work, that's why God founded Ace Hardware
These people have a perfectly believable excuse if caught bagging something not paid for ,as well !
I thought it scanned ! Easy place to steal with a built in reason.
My favorite local supermarket ( ShopRite), recently took the machines out, I guess ostensibly because people don't like them, real reason is they are too easy to ripoff.
People that normally wouldn't steal will steal when you make it way easy to do so
The local WM already has it down to the most minimal amount of cashiers now . Store has two entrances / exits. The south entrance has 5-6 self-check machines, one cashier babysitting them, when I was there there were 5 traditional registers with belts and human cashiers, typically 3 open, now one dumb young girl= SHRINK
On the North side , main entrance. You absolutely need a human to man the register where the cigs are located, they tend generously open another traditional register...this is in a rich white town loaded with retirees !
Then there are two colonies of self-check machines well spaced apart, one with 4 ,the other 6 machines, and a human in the seasonal lawn and garden area. There isn't any room to trim cashier staffing back further !
As a former Walmartian, I have no issues with their business model, it's what you have to do today.
I thought it scanned ! Easy place to steal with a built in reason.
My favorite local supermarket ( ShopRite), recently took the machines out, I guess ostensibly because people don't like them, real reason is they are too easy to ripoff.
People that normally wouldn't steal will steal when you make it way easy to do so
The local WM already has it down to the most minimal amount of cashiers now . Store has two entrances / exits. The south entrance has 5-6 self-check machines, one cashier babysitting them, when I was there there were 5 traditional registers with belts and human cashiers, typically 3 open, now one dumb young girl= SHRINK
On the North side , main entrance. You absolutely need a human to man the register where the cigs are located, they tend generously open another traditional register...this is in a rich white town loaded with retirees !
Then there are two colonies of self-check machines well spaced apart, one with 4 ,the other 6 machines, and a human in the seasonal lawn and garden area. There isn't any room to trim cashier staffing back further !
As a former Walmartian, I have no issues with their business model, it's what you have to do today.
The machines I hate are the ones in restaurants where they want you to swipe your own credit card on a machine table top. One of the reasons I go to a restaurant is to get service and relax. Do I deduct from my normal tip for doing part of their job?
I am fine with the self checkout at the grocery store though, since I feel like the grocery store is a chore/errand.
I am fine with the self checkout at the grocery store though, since I feel like the grocery store is a chore/errand.
Any job that is repetitive can be replaced by a machine. People just assume its only fast food and grocery store cashiers.
Cooks that make the burgers can be replaced. Look at soda machines. One machine can easily suit 100 different types of sodas with the press of a button.
Even professional careers like surgeons can be replaced. There are 1000's of the same surgeries done daily that are viewed as routine that could be auotomated.
Dental hygentist? Who needs you. Lay back in the chair and have the same instruments run on what they see when they scan your mouth. Car service. Pull it in and have a machine tell you everything that is wrong( some do now) and said machine can do the repair
This is why people say that artificial intellgence will change the world a million times more than what the computer/ internet has done.
Anyone have a kid that is very intelligent. That field will make a few billionaires or trillionaires
Cooks that make the burgers can be replaced. Look at soda machines. One machine can easily suit 100 different types of sodas with the press of a button.
Even professional careers like surgeons can be replaced. There are 1000's of the same surgeries done daily that are viewed as routine that could be auotomated.
Dental hygentist? Who needs you. Lay back in the chair and have the same instruments run on what they see when they scan your mouth. Car service. Pull it in and have a machine tell you everything that is wrong( some do now) and said machine can do the repair
This is why people say that artificial intellgence will change the world a million times more than what the computer/ internet has done.
Anyone have a kid that is very intelligent. That field will make a few billionaires or trillionaires
I'm not surprised it's Shop Rite. I'm sure it was probably a nightmare there.
* they have a much older aged clientele compared to other supermarkets
* they are huge on coupons, triple coupons, etc etc
Pretty oldschool when it comes to supermarkets. Most older folks don't care for the automated check out and have no problems waiting in line forever, bullshitting with the cashier. (THen probably taking forever to take their card out of the chip reader with a long line behind them)
