The idea being it reduces the number of staff needed to run the store because now we can restock shelves uninterrupted.
Of course, that’s not what’s happening. Instead of being asked where our canned mushrooms are, we’re now being asked where aisle 31 is, and we’re having to take extra time to find out what their actual question is.
Because there are only 14 aisles in the store.
Oh, and I actually like being asked where stuff is, because it breaks up the monotony of bringing out rollcomp, rotating, stocking, facing up, putting back rollcomp, repeat until lunch.
I like it in some ways, but in many it’s just freaking sad. Every time I go to my local grocery store, people would rather wait 5 minutes to start self checkout rather than zero wait to have a person check them out. I find it really bizarre. I highly doubt most of those people have the levels of legit social anxiety I have. I don’t really have an explanation other than they’re used to avoiding people. Maybe COVID has a lot to do with it.
I think it’s just becoming more and more normal for people to find it slightly more stressful, draining, or mentally demanding to interact with other people, and so avoid it kinda reflexively when they can
And perhaps it’s not until that feeling gets to a point of causing impairment (as is the case with social anxiety) that you’re forced to grapple with how much is lost when you don’t interact with others
where are you going that the self checkout lane is longer than in person? a lot of people seem to hate self checkout for no good reason
At my supermarket 5 minutes before closing time. Because the glory coin counters take time to clean/close, they close them ahead of time, so the self checkout lane has only one unit to use while all the human cashier are free
I personally hate the self checkout if it’s one of those with the super sensitive scale where if a particle of dust lands on the item shelf, it then complains “put back the item on the shelf” and I’m forced to wait 2 minutes for the operator to unlock it. If I buy deli items It Always fails because it reads from the barcode it’s 200 grams but with the package it is actually 210 grams
Why does it matter where? The grocery store has usually about 4 humans running cash registers yet the several self checkout machines cannot keep up with the demand. There will be a line of 20 people at pretty much all times.
Also I think people hate self checkout lanes for good reasons but I’m not sure why you bring that up as I’m pointing out that this isn’t seen by people’s actions in my experience
i was asking where because I’ve literally had the opposite experience. people will line up for a human and ignore the open self checkouts at all the stores I’ve been to here in the Midwest lmao
Yeah that used to be common but it’s not what I’m seeing recently