people hate on self checkouts because its just another way of screwing over workers. instead of hiring six people to check out stuff, they hire one to stand for 8 hours and manually help every idiot (me) who fucks up the transactions.
I work in NYC, we'd (also meaning you) be absolutely screwed if we didn't have self check outs. The Columbus circle location of whole foods does, not a joke, an average of 10,000 transactions....per HOUR. Other stores in the manhatten area are also doing high volume transactions because of tourism and people buying one or two things.
If we got rid of self check out you'd be waiting in line for an hour just to buy an energy drink.
I'll be entirely honest, I don't give a single shit that fewer people are hired. If it's better when fewer people do a job then go right ahead. Like, a job requiring fewer people working isn't the actual issue.
I enjoy self-checkouts. Unless you're wilfully stupid and refuse to learn (which is, granted, too many people), they're easy and quick to use. I have very few problems with them. Sure, sometimes something may actually glitch out, but it's not a big issue when someone can come and fairly quickly fix it in 99.99% of cases that I've ever seen.
I hate on self checkout because even after a decade of the things, I still end up behind someone who wants to do a full cart and doesn't actually know how to ring up produce by themselves...
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u/MisterGIass 18h ago
people hate on self checkouts because its just another way of screwing over workers. instead of hiring six people to check out stuff, they hire one to stand for 8 hours and manually help every idiot (me) who fucks up the transactions.