It must have started with the WalMart slogan on the checkout lanes (SCAN AND GO). The order to the printshop was supposed to be “Scan, PAY and Go”
Fake news. Our local Walmart neighborhood store just added at least six additional self serv checkouts. It’s reduced waiting times.
I've gotten so used to setting up my items in the cart to be quickly scanned at Costco that I now just head to the regular checkout lines where very few are using. The checkout workers are pleased to see nearly everything lined up, and I get a more pleasant checkout experience.
They thought that folks wouldn’t mind working for free. Looks like “shrinkage” caused them to rethink the whole “unpaid cashier” idea.
My local WallyWorld is currently undergoing a renovation.....and returning to the layout the store had 15 years ago.....the one exception is that they’re doubling self-checkout while halving the cashier checkouts. The newest MBA in the corporate office must have missed the message.....
Where I live in Texas theft is still illegal, so the DEIs know to head over to ‘the city’.
(as it is much easier for customers to shoplift items at the self checkout rather than a checkout with a cashier.)
DUH!!!!!
“But some locations may choose to temporarily limit the automated registers based on customer flow, meaning there are times the only self checkout lines open are those reserved for Walmart+ members.”
should the day arrive that that ever happens at my local walmart is the day i park my shopping cart and walk out ...
it’s getting bad enough trying to shop at walmart anyway: half the cans are dented, over half of the egg cartons have broken eggs, and they’re always out of gallons of 2% organic milk ... and a couple of weeks ago, only one out of five items on my list was in stock ... there’s only a couple of things now that i even try to buy from walmart ...
In this day and age the technology should be there to push your cart or bag thru a conveyor scanner andit tallies everything instantaneously without having to take anything out. Just ring everything up, insert card, and go.
I don’t go to Dollar General or Target, but Walmart better hire some cashiers at my store if they plan on getting rid of their self-checkouts. They have hardly any people working the cash registers at my store, and at 76, I’m not going to stand in line to get checked out. I’ll just go to another store, because I usually have to shop between 3 stores here anyway, just to be able to find what I need.
Then there are the sophisticated thieves who supply their own bar codes. It’s not difficult with a computer and a laser printer. Watching them, you don’t see anything, because they scan every item.
The correct word is shrinkage. Not only are the kids illiterate, so are their parents.
I envision a checkout system based on pneumatic tubes. Still working out the details but I’m pretty sure it would work.
They don’t allow alcohol at self checkout so I barely get to use them. Maybe I should just pay for my food and steal the beer.
Before the Plandemic, the nearby huuuuge, mega Walmart had about 30 check stands that required a human, with just a few self checkout machines. Today, there are 3, three check stands that require humans.
I suggested to the guy running the register at Walmart that they should put a big sign on the front of their store reading:
“Enjoying the long lines and no more self checkout? Thank those lovely shoplifters!!”
Why dont they just have a shoplifters express lane where they just roll the cart full of stuff right out the door and the guards/police wave at them as they go by?
*FEARS* of theft???
It's a given. It's happening.
They're doing it because of theft, not because of fear of it.
One more bad thing about self check-out?
Not Christmas bonus! ;-(