How often do U use the self-checkout @ stores?

[TickTockMan]

I want the "10 items or less" lines to automatically charge an extra dollar for each item over the limit.

I would love that.

No, in almost all provinces the sale of alcohol is restricted to either specialist stores, to provincially-owned retail "liquor commissions" or to outlets that are kind of franchised but still dependent on provincial monopolies. So you get something with the quaint name of "Liquor Control Board of Ontario" which turns out to be the world's largest purchaser of alcoholic beverages. You'd find a liquor store in the parking lot of the neighbourhood grocery store, but never actually part of the store.

I don't think "prohibition" was ever taken too seriously in Canada compared to the States, but it seems it didn't quite ever go away either!

Interesting.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I'm eager to leave the sort of dispiriting store likely to have self-checkout lanes. I loathe being surrounded by food especially which has been transformed into a brand. So I use them a lot, and I'm very fast.

 

[anchihiro]

All the time, it means i don't have to put up with cashiers commenting on the food i'm buying.

 

[Georgiadude]

Not at my area Walmart. You fill the bags, wait a few seconds and you can remove them and start filling new bags.

Maybe it's changed. Like I said. I avoid them. I had spent about an hour in the store and had a cart full of items. There was only 1 lane that had a cashier open so I went to the self check out lane. I couldn't fit any more items in the bagged area so I hit "skip bagging" a few times. The thing locked up on me and a worker came over and started giving me attitude about skipping bagging etc. I got so frustrated I told them to keep it and I spent my 150.00 at Publix instead. They not only bagged my groceries but a really cute guy loaded them into my car. I wish he would have came home with me and put them away for me too. lol

Steven.

 

[72-Jay]

Only occasionally use them (and only if paying a credit card)...
Most of the time I make small purchases and pay with cash, for that I prefer going to a cashier.

The Walmart closest to me actually got rid of their self-checkout's

 

[Beachguyj]

Another benefit to bagging it yourself at the self check out is that you can double bag all the bags and put things in the bags in the order you like. So if I'm in a hurry to go back out when I get back home I know all my fridge and freezer items are bagged together, and the other ones I can put away later.
Also you won't overfill the bags like some baggers do.

 

[72-Jay]

Colorado has some weird half-assed rules about alcohol. Until a few years ago, all liquor stores (and car dealerships!) were closed on Sundays. Right now, I think every chain can sell beer (if licensed) , but I think they have to stop selling beer at midnight. (not sure if that law is still on the books.) Wine requires a more stringent license, and anything heavier a more stringent license still. All large chains can have one - ONE - store that sells hard alcohol under certain conditions. So the largest Target in the area (the one in Glendale) sells whiskey and vodka, but the others only sell beer.

And only beer with 3.2% alcohol .. anything stronger requires the more stringent liquor license.

 

[cdninweho]

I never use them. If they offered me a discount for doing the work of the cashiers then I would, since the price is the same whether I do the checking out, or they do it for me, I let them do it.

Why not do what we can to keep people employed?

 

[mydrew1]

Only twice. Takes too long pressing all those buttons. Faster, in my experience, normal staffed cashier.

 

[Lefty]

My 2 favorite markets offer full service/quick check and sefl servicee. I have several 'friends'
at both markets...first name basis in a couple of cases.
I will use the limited ch butt refuse to insult 'my clerks' by using self check. Real jobs, real people.

When was the last time a self serve machine spotted an expired date or a container that had lost its'
seal or mentioned 'such and such are a terrific value today? Plus, everytime we go to 'self serve' we
do damage to job security and customer service. JMHO.

 

[Taz]

Depends what im buying and how much. if all i have is a pineapple and some lube, the implications would have me go to a manned checkout XD

 

[Triple G]

I never had the self-check lines work. Always needed a clerk to sort it out. So, save time by going through the regular lines.

 

[pilate]

I like the self check-out for the sheer fact that there are still many people (particularly of the older generation lol) who are unwilling to use them. So, for brevity, I use the self check-out because the line is most of the time shorter.

 

[The_Reaper]

I prefer to use the self-checkout, if only because it is often faster as a lot of people tend to avoid them/not understand how to use them.

The thing that irritates me though, is people who take a cart load (and I mean a cart load) of items through the self-checkout. I've always considered the automatic checkouts as an express lane, more than 13 items or so and take it to a cashier. If you're personally scanning over 50 items, you're holding up the line and going to run into trouble with the weight system most of these units have to make sure your items aren't being shoplifted from the store.