Posted on 07/08/2011 2:03:40 PM PDT by flowerplough
Edited on 07/08/2011 2:27:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
One of the nation's major grocery store chains is eliminating self-checkout lanes in an effort to encourage more human contact with its customers.
Albertsons LLC, which operates 217 stores in seven Western and Southern states, will eliminate all self-checkout lanes in the 100 stores that have them and will replace them with standard or express lanes, according to published reports.
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Can’t stand them. Overpriced to boot.
I use self-checkout almost exclusively in my grocery store.
I’m there for groceries, not to chat.
There is always dedicated staff hanging around to handle an problems that arise. The problem is they place the slowest, least personable staff to monitor those lines.
So sorry to hear. I’ve loved Albertsons and will avoid them in the future.
I wonder how long before “pay at the pump” is taken away ! Anymore, slide in card, pump gas, answer if I want receipt. The only time I ever walk into the gas station is to use the bathroom.
I was told by an Albertsons employee at least six months ago that this was going to happen. I am pretty sure that I was in self checkout and that I had to have help because the scanner wasn’t working properly. With rare exception, the self checkout at Albertsons has been a problem when I’ve used it. I use it at multiple stores when we only have a few items and when the regular lines are long. In general, I don’t like the checkers at Albertsons.
She nodded her head, smiled, and looked around to see if anyone heard the interchange. I have been in since, and she continues to offer the internet suggestion as she is req’d to do. I reply, again, that I like to see her employed. She smiles....and the game goes on.
I don't want to deal with union people or ex-union folks either. They overflow with feelings of entitlement and narcissism. Look at the Atlanta 'teachers' - they were ginning the system - cheating - for cash. Sick.
Hmmmm... a bit of the old “Ultra-violence”, with me droogs? We’ll give the dred some drat next time and see what happens.
I hate self check-out. If the store offered a 20% discount off of my purchase so I can play store employee, that would be a different thing altogether.
In fact, I will (and have) waited in the one extremely long line with a human being as a checker, simply to avoid becoming Albertson'd de facto employee...
As for chatting with the checker, I like it, it's friendly. Nothing wrong with taking the time to be nice to the person helping you.
I found the Albertson’s self checkout to be painfully slow. I zip through the Bashas self checkout so smooth the watcher once offered me a job.
I would think that ‘pay-at-the-pump’ will be around for some time. It is harder for theft than a self-checkout where you scan items in.
Banks once thought they would safe on employee (teller) costs when they installed ATMs and then found out that they just increased transaction volume. So now, the justification is customer convenience and not reduction in staff, as Obama suggests.
My guess is that it isn’t a ubiquitous change. In EVERY Walmart I’ve been in North of Atlanta they have self-checkout lines. EXCEPT in ONE store...on Cobb Parkway (US 41) in Marietta. Seems like they trust their clientelle there....Amish....
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Hell, in New Jersey, at least near the beach area near Ft. Monmouth, you can’t pump your own gas...they have India Indians specifically there to grab your card and punch the machine for you, you have to put the gas in......nice unions there...
This would only happen in blue states where politicians are trying to promote fake job growth. Like Baraq wanting to substitute bank tellers for ATMs.
I love it in the regular lines when the old fart waits until everything is checked and bagged, then begins the slow process of finding his wallet and pockets of change, and carefully counting out the exact amount, and barring that, counting out the amount which will produce exactly 10 cents change back, etc. like a kid who just learned to count money. Absolutely no concern for the non-retired people for whom every minute is precious.
You understand that all banking is online, right? Whether you do the transaction or the teller does it, the transaction is being done online.
Thank you for pointing that out, so many people don’t realize the extent to which everything is digital at some point these days when financial transactions are involved. Going to the bank is essentially having someone else do the online transaction for you.
Not me. I love to talk with them. I have known most for decades and it is a chance to talk with them. I have never been held up by talking.
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