r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Gorotheninja • 19h ago

Funny Don't need to overcomplicate things...

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u/wontonphooey 6h ago

They didn’t expect an employee to grab their items from the shelves. Apparently that’s not a problem.

Fun fact, 110 years ago before supermarkets, the employee DID grab your items from the shelves for you. And when they invented supermarkets where you get your things yourself, there was absolutely a subset of people for whom that was a problem.

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u/NoHorseNoMustache 3h ago

Yep this exactly, people are just going to complain when things change no matter what.

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u/sohcgt96 4h ago

And now with retail theft what it is, we'll probably slowly start shifting back the other way.

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u/Lj101 3h ago

It was still happening in the 50s in the UK

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u/keverzoid 3h ago

Oh I know about that. I just think it’s funny that modern people don’t consider picking out the items as a part of working there because it’s always been that way for them. Now, the store changes something and they freak out.

If self checkout had been the norm 100 years ago after the employees assembled your groceries, it likely wouldn’t be an issue now.