Then offer a discount for self checkout.

The Boomers are right sometimes, like about keeping email.

I used to love using the self-checkout. But then it became a trend among the corporate overlords here to get all paranoid about people stealing food, so now they have the weight system calibrated too strict. Now if you breath on the items in the bag it locks you out and someone has to come unlock the system to continue scanning. So it's not really worth the hassle, and seems kinda pointless since an employee has to unlock the system after every few items.

I've never understood the people who seem to not get that some people actually don't mind scanning their stuff and putting it in bags, and insist that that's the line between what the customer does and the employee. They also used to carry your groceries to the car for you, and you can also get them to pick everything up, bag it and bring it to your car or house. It's not like the checkout process is the special part that can't change.

Yeah, they want to save money by having fewer people get more customers checked out faster. I don't really care since the part I like, getting finished at the store, happens faster.

1. I don't work here. Stop trying to get me to do the job for free, either pay a cashier to check me out or fuck off.
2. There's an epidemic of these machines not working and then the shopper getting charged with shoplifting over it, Wal-Mart is the worst at doing this.

Not wanting to do free work for a company (they don't even give you a discount if you use self-service) is being a boomer?

That's the first time I've seen the word "boomer" on the opposite side of the word "sucker".

My parents refused to use the self-checkout because “They take people’s jobs.”

They were hardcore republicans perfectly happy to make sure those jobs got paid shit.

I mean, walmart could easily fix that by having fucking cashiers.

At the walmart I go to they put in like 60 self checkouts and have, maybe, one cashier running at a time.

I don't mind self checkout as a concept. Its fine if you are just buying a couple things, or something you might be personally embarassing for you.. but they are not a replacement for cashiers.

Cashiers and belts are needed to handle bigger purchases like monthly groceries and shit.

Unless you are gonna take 25% off my bill for labor savings, I am not going to take my monthly shopping through a self checkout. I had to once when I had no choice, and I'll never do it again.

I'd rather "work" than wait behind people with 100+ items. I can be out the door in 2 minutes.

Management can fuck right the hell off. Self checkout is taking jobs away from people and getting us to work for free.

I actually prefer self checkout. Idk. I get it though.

I refuse to use them as a union worker, when I'm told to use the self checkout as I'm in line for the only cashier I just refuse. I'm doing it for you kids

I'm on Team Boomer on this one.

Recently had a support call with a woman who was complaining about our 2 factor authentication system because she could only access one web page at a time. When I asked her if she couldn't just open a new tab, she said she was too old to learn how computers work and couldn't do that. She went on to claim that there's a lot of people at her level of ineptitude, and that we shouldn't have implemented 2fa because "most people don't have multiple monitors."

It was so, so hard not to throw out an OK Boomer as they proudly lectured me on the depths of their ignorance.

I was once mistaken for an employee somewhere and my sleep deprivated response was to say "I am wearing pants so clearly I dont work here." I have no fucken clue what that means but I think it was a threat.

Never understood that argument. I want to be in and out as quickly as possible. Self checkout makes that happen.

Real US/Europe split here

No cashier packs your bag for you in Europe. Sometimes it's a fun game trying to be faster packing than them scanning.

So this is pro-self checkout? Why would you be pro self checkout? Besides the extra time and effort for the customer to check out if they have more than a couple items, I recently read an article saying that even for the companies they haven't worked out: besides the problems and delays they cause where they have to provide employee assistance anyway ("Unexpected item in bag", etc), they've lost more to theft and are having to spend more money on adding more anti-theft tech, etc. One company they interviewed is phasing them out.

(edit after reading some comments) The article also talked about people getting in trouble for accidentally not getting something scanned.

I hate self checkout. I work all day to then check out my shit and bag my own groceries? And pay 2x for the same food and less service than 5 years ago?

They also don't schedule enough employees to keep the lines running quickly, they only have 2-3 lanes open most of the time when it's busy as having another line is 2x $13-15 an hour for a bagger and a cashier. This gets people to either go to self checkout or wait forever. Naturally most people go through self checkout, which they'll probably use as an excuse to make more self checkouts.
(talking about the store I work at specifically, which isn't a Walmart, but I assume Walmart does the same)

I mean, both are right. Clients shouldn't have to do the cashier job.

But clients should stop going there to send a message instead of harassing the minimum salary employee.

Someone needs to write "Ok, Boomer" on this notice.

Corporate gaslighting be like:

I agree with the boomers on this one. I'm not in the habit of providing free labor to a corporation I don't even work for.

Boomer uncle literally drives his electric bill payment to the local office to pay it when they have a perfectly fine online portal.

Same exact response 'that's someone's job' like the employee actually has a say.