Comments: Man’s Whole Job Undoing Handiwork Of Self-Checkout Machine
Some of them are just better designed & built, IMHO. At a big box store in Maryland, I could never get thru without help. At the local grocery, after they replaced the first batch of machines, the process was quick and painless.
I suspect it's the 1.0 machines that are the problem.
Posted by leelu at October 25, 2014 8:20 AM
I won't use them because they "talk" out loud. Is that in case we can't read? Jeez
Posted by pbird at October 25, 2014 11:59 AM
A few months ago I was checking out at a store and the cashier said, "Wow, your phone said you get an automatic 25% discount!", and the bill was reduced by that amount. To this day I don't know how that happened and it hasn't happened again. Yes, it has bluetooth.
Posted by ghostsniper at October 25, 2014 7:41 PM
Which store and what kind of phone?? ;-)
Posted by leelu at October 26, 2014 8:02 AM
Checkout machines at Giant are awful; they are like someone's unfinished science fair project. Some other chains have much better-designed systems. But they all suffer from the fact that not everything (in a grocery store) has a bar code, and looking up an item by a shopper is inherently going to be much less efficient than data entry by an experienced checker.
Posted by photoncourier.blogspot.com at October 26, 2014 8:17 AM
So a cashier (self check out "helper")at Home Depot was insistent that she could help me save time as I drifted to the "attended" check out.
She seemed fairly perplexed when I explained "Um...no, I'd rather save your job."
Posted by CaptDMO at October 27, 2014 12:21 AM