Posted on 02/26/2023 2:03:19 PM PST by PK1991
"Trader Joe's will continue to hire on-site staff as the company believes its employees are more important than the glitz and the glamour of self-checkout.
“The bottom line here is that our people remain our most valued resource," Tara Miller, Trader Joe's vice president of marketing, said on the Inside Trader Joe's podcast.
“While other retailers were cutting staff and adding things like self-checkout, curbside pickup, and outsourcing delivery options, we were hiring more crew, and we continue to do that.”
She added: "Our crew will be in our stores to help you find your next favorite product, just as they've always been.”
in colorado, local county health departments had enforcement capabilities only as long as the Gov had declared an emergency ... after a year or so, he said no more ...
however, several county health departments issued masking “orders” and PRETENDED they had enforcement authority, and ALL the local media, every last one, went along with the charade and they too pretended that county masking orders were enforceable ...
i went online and read the actual Boulder County orders, and everything had been changed from “shall” to “should”, so i knew that none of the retailers (who are the ones who ACTUALLY enforced the orders because they would be fined) could be fined after the Gov refused to renew his emergency orders ...
during the declared “emergency”, we wore masks only in a token fashion, namely below the nose so we could actually breath ...
once the “emergency” ceased, my family went WITHOUT masks all together when shopping at all of our regular retail stores, and no store employee ever challenged us ... it was fun ... mostly no one else cared anyway, but every once in a while, some nazi mask Karen would scowl at us or even verbally accost us ... like i say, fun!
oh, and we not only never wore masks after that, we never got vaxed either AND never caught covid
Me too.
Even during our few months’ mask mandate in Texas, the Brookshire’s where I bought groceries had the required sign on the door, but staff looked the other way. Almost half of us were free-faced at any given time there and nobody ever bothered us. Several restaurants, at least one microbrewery and some shops also ignored us free-breathers and let us be.
I heard about places that had mask Nazis posted at their doors to bark at people about masks, but I never went to any of those places. Most of them were the big national chain stores from what I heard.
Maybe, maybe not. Who really, really cares as long as you can purchase your product?
The local grocery store did it “right.”
1. They had a kid wiping down all the returned carts in front of the store.
2. You had to line up outside the store because they limited the number of people in the store.
3. Another two kids sat at table at the front door and made you spritz your hands with sanitizer.
4. The aisles were all one-way with arrows.
5. All shoppers had to line up in the frozen food aisle. A guy at the front of the aisle directed you to a cash register when one came open.
6. HUGE plexiglas screens were hung from the ceiling to keep every cash register aisle isolated from the next.
7. Plexiglas shields were installed between you and the checker.
It was absolute, utter insanity. Even with all that nonsense, they still got fined $20,000 for the employee without a mask in the break room.
All that expense, all that inconvenience, all that sheer stupidity saved how many lives? Zero?
Not to mention it will surely curb the type of theft of products that Walmart, et al are experiencing with self-checkout.
I love self-checkout. Vastly better service when I serve myself!
“If I have more than three items, the self-checkout ALWAYS says...”
Odd. I can’t remember the last time I had a problem with self-checkout.
“the glamour of self-checkout.“ seriously?
Every single time something goes wrong. Every time.
Not good. I make the trip to Trader Joe to get stuff that I can't get at my local supermarket. If TJ doesn't have what would bring me there, why go?
Nice!! I'm in a class to learn how to set those up on autopilot. Should be interesting.
This was Arizona, but bad enough. I too used to enjoy going unmasked wherever I could. When they finally lifted the mask restrictions around here, one of the pharmacy techs at Safeway said something to the effect that it was nice to see me without a mask, and I laughed and told her that she had never seen me with a mask. I suspect the gray beard sometimes caused people to think I was wearing a mask.
I always got a laugh out of guys with big beards wearing masks. All that air just blowing around and through the beard, not through the mask.
That was my impression. I swiped my Amazon Prime Card and it didn’t do anything for me. I think they want this to be like a universal database that can be used in other places like getting into sporting events. I’m not doing it ever.
Agreed. Love self checkout. Cashier lines always take forever and usually there is a self checkout scanner available as soon as I walk up. Very quick but can be confusing for some people.
Wait until they are required to pay their employees a government mandated minimum wage of 25 or 30 bucks an hour. Those self-checkouts will appear very quickly.
Yeah, that was another reason for me not to wear a mask. I knew it was pointless over a beard, even if masks had worked otherwise, which they didn’t.
The “palm scanner” is optional.
Period.
BUT the OP said he tried to use Amazon One to get in.
Just wanted to know the details.
Yeah, it’s a optional method. For now.
Still, it’s not the MoTB.
But like COVID-19, it’s conditioning; could be unintentional.
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