At Walmart now you have to go through a second kind of checkout when you get to the door. They have to see your receipt and then they check anything that is not bagged to see if you purchased it. This happens even if didn’t use the self checkout because they have no way of knowing if you did or not. It is all just a royal pain in the butt.
A lot of people not only don’t want the hassle of self checkout, but they want to interact with the cashier as a way of making them feel human. A computer cannot chit chat or smile.
The door check *long* precedes self-checkout. They were doing that when I moved to Texas in 1995.
Those receipt checks are necessary because at the Wal-Mart in my town the gibsmedats were playing all kinds of games - like just loading carts and trying to walk out (sometimes with flat-screen TVs). As a poster commented on a local news site: “They’re not even hiding it anymore, are they?”
*** “A lot of people not only don’t want the hassle of self checkout, but they want to interact with the cashier as a way of making them feel human. A computer cannot chit chat or smile” ***
I am changing my Bank (Goodbye Bank of America) because they no longer have a physical presence where I live.
I can still do anything that B of A offered but I also have a place that I can sit down and visit w a real human, get Notary service etc.
For me there is no replacement and “Online” with No Human interaction for me is unacceptable (aka Please Hold for the next Robotic press some number response that they charge a monthly fee for)
Same thing applies at the Grocery store... just don’t have to cancel accounts.
“A computer cannot chit chat or smile.”
Says the guy currently using his computer to chit chat with other people.
Also? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyfaJR7BilQ
You can indeed use your computer to speak to another and get a smile.
If you want human interaction, you can use your computer. Please do not hold up the line at the store to get your weekly human interaction - it’s rude and disrespectful to the people behind you in line whose time you are wasting.