Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
by johnchristopher on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:47AM
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> For the same ~20 to 30 items I normally purchase, it takes me very little time to self checkout. For people with cartloads of items, they can go to the manned conveyor belts. For everyone else, they can go to one of the many self checkouts.
Except if they have never used self checkout before. Or if they have 15 items in the store's cart but they haven't brought their shopping bags so they take 15 minutes to fill their arms and pockets and hats with their groceries.
Those people are eating time saved by self-checkout !
I tolerate the young ones who comes in pack of 6 individuals, especially if only one of them buy their unique can of coke. It makes the queue looks longer than it is and I am out sooner than the SUCKERS in the other queue.
HA ! (/s ? /s)
Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
by lotsofpulp on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:11AM
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Sure, but in my experience, there are so many self checkout stalls that I never have to wait long.
I find self checkout very beneficial, as I frequently have few items to purchase, and there are more self checkout registers available more consistently than there would be staff.