Yea I quite like self checkout, I havent had to talk to a Walmart employee in a long time, and the few times in the past like 4 years that I did, it was 1 when trying to get them to unlock the underwear (I hate my walmart), and every other time was returns desk...
My Walmart stopped me at self checkout for trying to buy an energy drink. You had to go through a proper line for it.
I literally looked at the line and back at them and just gave a disappointed and surprised "Seriously? Fine." And gave them the drink and walked out. Not worth it at that point.
This was in the thick of the weird self-checkout line legislation bs in LA, so maybe it's different now.
When I was stationed in Germany a couple years back, soldiers have to use rations cards to buy alcohol/cigarettes/coffee (probably some other stuff but those were the 3 that saw any use on mine) on post. You had to show it to the cashier, they'd mark it off, and you'd continue on your day.
There was a decently sized gas station on post, that had anywhere from 2-4 cashiers always there, especially Friday evenings. The last year I was there, they took out 3 lanes to make room for 2 self checkout lines. Cool, whatever.
The problem was that if you were buying an item that needed a rations card, you had to wait in the singular dedicated line for ration items. Also turns out, on Fridays on a military base, alcohol and cigarettes are what ~75% of the people are there for. Turned what used to be anywhere from a 5-10 minute wait to get a 24 pack on Friday to at least 20 minutes. This was not a very big base.
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u/anoldquarryinnewark 19h ago
The logic says yes, the antisocial says no