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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by ghaff on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:08PM (#17517641)
One of my local grocery stores just got rid of a bunch of their checkouts in favor of self-service. It's OK if I'm just picking up a couple of barcoded items. But it's a huge PITA for things like produce to the point where I've largely switched to another chain.
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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by dacur on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:20PM (#17517748)
I got so fed up w/ the poor service at my grocery store that I've been using Amazon Prime Now for groceries. So far, so good.
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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by reaperducer on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:30PM (#17517836)
I used to live in a Peapod area, and it was awesome.

Amazon's grocery service in Seattle was also my go-to for a while.

But where I am now, Amazon Prime/Amazon Pantry is close to double the store price or more for fresh items. For example, a gallon of milk is $1.49 at the neighborhood supermarket. Prime Now is $5-6/gallon. I like largely because you can only buy organic.

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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by ghaff on Thursday July 12, 2018 @06:28PM (#17519145)
I used Peapod for a period when I had a broken foot. Maybe I'll give them another shot one of these days.

I don't get Amazon Prime. I can get Instacart but not for Whole Foods.

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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by mantas on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:20PM (#17517746)
Ditto on that. It works awesome when you need to skip a queue while buying a couple of well packaged items.

Worst part is if barcode is mangled. Some of the systems don't allow to enter barcode by hand which suuuuucks big time. Then I need to wait for "assistance" just to insert magic key and enter the damn barcode.

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Re:McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks by loco5niner on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:34PM (#17517879)
Produce isn't bad at my chain. you can input via code, name, or picture. Easy.
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