Posted on 06/14/2020 8:22:25 AM PDT by deport
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA)
An Arkansas Walmart is being used as a test location to launch all self-checkout registers at its store.
A Walmart spokesperson said Walmart Supercenter Store #359 in Fayetteville is currently
removing all of its traditional belt lines to replace them with self-checkout registers.
There will be no cashiers at the location.
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My Walmart is about 50-50 self service and cashier. I have noticed all the former cashiers are now wearing yellow vests. They are there to help customers at the self service isle. Most are just standing around. Quite frustrating.
Ours went to all self check out a few weeks ago.
This (Joye Street) has been my main Wal-mart I use. But no more. I’ll use the Elm Springs store. It has the same amount of goods if not more and they still have cashiers.
The one I go to still has a few warm bodies. Never many but
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it without at least a couple open.
Now can’t speak for early morning or late day as I’m usually
a mid day arrival.
I live pretty close to that store.
Walmart headquarters is up the highway a bit.
Walmart experiments with the local stores all the time. They don’t mention that there is also a Walmart here with NO automatic checkouts.
We have robot walmarts (bentonville) and store 1 has some strange Walmart police robot.
We have a few super boutique style ones too.
Walmart runs all of their experiments here, and there are about 30 walmarts in a short driving distance.
I ALWAYS use the self check out at Walmart they are GREAT!!
So it would be better if everyone went to the automatic registers, and the cashiers were fired because they weren’t needed? Most of the cashiers I see are young kids in high school trying to make a few extra bucks, or elderly people trying to make a few extra bucks, and keep busy.
I also pay all of my bills by check, and use the post office to mail it. Keeps the Mail Man/Mail Woman in a job.
We have stores with self checkouts and they have sped up the flow through immensely. Instead of long queues, people select, pay and leave in one third the time. Excellent idea
“Any moron can push a banana icon to operate the scales. I have probably done it hundreds of times.”
Don’t be so hard on yourself.
I don’t mind using self checkout when I have a few items. I don’t want to scan and bag a buggy load of groceries, even if they paid me what they would have paid a cashier to do it. And I’m not letting them pick my produce for me. Guess I’ll have to take the financial hit and start shopping at a real grocery store.
Go to a store with cashiers or start your own store with cashiers if you prefer inefficiency.
The cameras use a software tool that looks for items not scanned.
I expect all items will eventually be RFID tagged. It’s pretty easy, especially for meat and deli items.
I used to program the bar code printers. The later models do the RFID tags.
So I expect this IBM commercial from 2007 to be a reality in many more places. I’m surprised so few have it, even now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFhBGKU6HA
(yes I came to find this thread - had just never gotten back to it)
LOL! The Soviets prided themselves on full-employment, relics of which are still observed today. Walk into a public restroom in Ukraine and you'll notice three paid employees. The first charges admission. The second provides you about six inches of toilet paper (the Soviets learned early on that items like toilet paper and lightbulbs will vanish if not guarded or securely fastened). The third emplyee holds a mop and keeps the place clean.
There you go. Three people earning a living working in a public restroom. And that's why you are charged money to use one.
“I refuse to use automatic machines. I know how to use them, but I purposely go to a cashier. People need jobs. Even low wage jobs.”
Ditto. If they were to give me, say, a 10% discount on the total bill I might consider it. If I’m doing the job of a cashier, I want to be compensated. But they’ll oust all the cashiers and not reduce any prices.
“The cameras use a software tool that looks for items not scanned.”
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Wow. Didn’t know that bit of information!
:) Tickled pink. Now, the store needs to charge all the shoplifters.
Of course, the DA has to be willing to go through with the court case.
A chain convenience store is testing a camera system where the customer places items in a zone, the items are scanned and totaled. The customer can pay and leave without a human clerk processing the items.
That system was being pilot-tested near the home office of that particular convenience store chain (unnamed publicly or privately) at this point.
I don’t know what the level of not-scanned items is before someone gets a free ride in a police car. Only that it does happen. A story I will tell is that I was in a Walmart (next city over) several years ago, using the self-checkout system. A gal about 3 machines over from me was obviously not scanning all of her items (I didn’t notice but there are cameras with people watching). No doubt the software triggered an alert.
There were a couple of local cops working security at that store IN UNIFORM and they were TWO FEET away from her, looking away (towards the door). Security must have called down because she didn’t get 3-5 feet from her self-checkout machine before they put the handcuffs on her. I saw the whole thing happen right in front of me.
Obviously, she thought no one was looking. They were. I avoided the self-checkout for years after that, afraid I might accidentally screw up. LOL
Based on the no-check out field test in the Blue cities during the riots, I'd say it's much quicker for mostly peaceful looters to check out.
LOL
Forget the scan and go .. just go. It will be interesting
to see how these work. A lot people use the self check out
in Walmart. I do when it is just a few items but with a lot
I prefer the normal check out.
I’m not sure how they set it up but it will have to resemble
the current check outs when a person has a lot of items. Need
room to unload/scan and then bag and load up again. But it
will work once the kinks are resolved.
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