We used to have two Albertsons in Panama City (FL) but they evaporated into thin air.
One week they were there and then .....
I thought the whole chain had gone out of business.
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]
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.One of the things I enjoy about traveling out of state is being able to buy gas at a self-service pump. NJ doesn't have them.
Just to finish my thought, it is the ever increasing "drug precursor" list and "A huffer could get high on this" list. I get aggravated enough that I would like to take every huffer, crack head, and meth user out to the woods with a huge batch of their choice, and let them dope their lives out of existance...
My experience is exactly the opposite. Kroger’s self-check system is much better than Home Depot’s in my area.
Here’s where I get to “tell” on my mom. She talked up a cashier while the cashier was ringing up the person in front of her...causing so much chatter that mom ended up paying for the customer in front of her AND herself. No one was paying attention.
I love my mom, but I avoid checkout lanes with anyone resembling her....
We used to have two Albertsons in Panama City (FL) but they evaporated into thin air.
One week they were there and then .....
I thought the whole chain had gone out of business.
This is a blantant lie. I knew a woman who worked as a checker at Albertson’s. She said she had a quota to meet. It’s been my experience Albertson’s checkers won’t do much talking. Of course it’s been a while since I shopped there.
The ones at Loewe’s are just plain stupid..the store sells lots of REALLY BIG THINGS, yet the space by the scanner is about 1 ft square..you can’t get most of the things to scan, and then you have to call the attendant over...
About ten years ago, the Wal Marts in the Baton Rouge area started putting in self check outs. Then Katrina hit and a bunch of New Orleans people moved to Baton Rouge. They all disapeared overnight. I wonder why.
Customers are demanding more chatty cashiers? I doubt that. I've always wondered if thieves are figuring out how to steal at the self-checkout.
I sure wish our local Rite-Aid had self check out. Extremely understaffed, the few employees can't keep up with the customers. Seven check out lines but there is never more than two open at a time.
Publix in the southeast said they’d never put in self check out lanes because it’s not good customer service. What I want to know is if Channel the Checker wants to tell Cindy the Customer all about Peggy’s pregnancy, is that good customer service?
Yeah, but the people in line ARE being held up. Have some consideration.
“... the motivating factor is that self-checkout makes shoplifting easier.”
Agree. I’ve notice that the grocery stores locally that are in more ghettoized ‘hoods don’t have self-checkout, while the more affluent areas do.
We don’t have an Albertson’s near us, but my local Stop and Shop and Price Chopper stores both have self check outs and I love them. I don’t have to stand behind six people with 8 items or less at the ‘fast’ lane with the checker. I can do my own thing. I REALLY like the Stop and Shop that has the scanner that you can take with you in the store. I bring my own bags, and as I shop, I scan what I want to buy, and put it in the bag. When I get to the checkout, I scan the scanner, put in my shopper card, pay with my credit card, and out comes a receipt with everything I’ve bought. I take the receipt, grab the already loaded bags, and head on home.
Bullseye. The first thing I thought when I used one was: “Shopping on the honor system? File under terrible ideas.” Then I thought that they must have done some cost/benefit analysis and calculated that the amount of shoplifting would be less than the cost of extra cashiers. Looks like that analysis was rosy.
I’ve seen the self-checkouts that tell you to place the item in a bag, but our self-checkouts are not like that at all!
We simply scan the item just like the cashiers do, and place it on a conveyor belt. The items go down the counter and into a holding area. When the bagging area is full, the scanner tells you to bag some items and continue scanning.
I love them! I can get out of the store much faster, and I get to bag my stuff the way I like it bagged (that is to say, NOT two items in each flimsy plastic bag. I use fabric bags and they hold LOTS of very heavy items. As long as I can pick it up, I’m good to go).
As far as I know, there hasn’t been a problem with shoplifting. The self-scanners have been there for years.
Regards,
PS: Of course, Albertson’s has the right to remove theirs if they see fit.
I use self checkout so I don't have to talk to people.
They pulled ours out.
When I asked why, the short answer was they were allowing a lot of theft.
It was frustrating when you saw someone with a huge cart trying to do the self-service aisle.
I watched one gal 'so innocently" forget to scan the expensive box she had on the bottom rack of her cart.
I mentioned it to a clerk, and they caught up with her before she got to the door.
She had simply forgotten [Yeah, sure!]
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