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I would LOVE to use the self checkouts since the grocery chain near me has been replacing all the human cashiers. But the damn things treat you like a thief, make you wait 2-3 seconds between scans, you can't scan your whole cart of groceries without going down and bagging them when the conveyor gets more than half full, etc.
They're horrible. I just wait in line for one of the human cashiers every time.
I mean they work fantastic where I live. They don't have to be horrible
Lol, yeah, they definitely don't have to suck. When they first put those in, they were actually pretty fantastic. But Kroger Corporate said "not on my watch" and cranked up the security to obscene levels and made them horrible. There's just not another decent grocery story close to me, so I'm stuck. Yay food deserts 🫠
Even better was for a while in NZ we had an app for scanning your groceries on your phone then you just scan a qr code on your phone at the checkout and pay. Not quite as amazing as the amazon "ai" (anonymous Indian) powered one, but still pretty great and didn't require a team of actual humans to manually run it(apart from the customer). Too bad they had to cancel it for theft prevention shortly after they jacked up the prices of everything by about 250% in what seemed like one week...