Posted on 06/04/2023 12:09:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
First, big box stores like Wal-Mart introduced self-service checkout stands. You know — the ones where we shoppers begrudgingly do the jobs of the stores for free while under intense electronic and in-person surveillance and all without so much as a discount or meaningful human interaction? Well, now — thanks to the Biden economy — the newest trend at restaurants and stores with self-service checkouts is to coerce and guilt consumers into adding unearned tips to their total.
I don’t know about you, Dear Reader, but I grew up in an era when tipping was in direct proportion to the quality of a service rendered. Better service was rewarded with a better tip, but the service component had to be there. Not so today. When did the simple act of buying a product become a service?
And it’s especially baffling when a shopper goes to the store, finds and removes the item from the shelf, takes it to the checkout, scans, and bags the item all on his own. Where exactly is the service in that transaction? There isn’t any, and yet a tip is still expected?
According to the New York Post, many businesses claim “these tipping prompts are completely optional, and the extra gratuity is split between all employees.” However, in reality “tips at a self-checkout machine might never even get to an actual employee since protections to tipped workers in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act don’t extend to machines.” Clearly, this type of tipping is nothing but a blatant attempt by businesses to increase revenue, not to reward good service.
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The “concept” of using hand(s) to pay / etc. is all very cool technology. It will reduce fraud, increase financial security, probably reduce theft.
It will end very, very, very badly.
Just another step down the road. I expect Amazon One systems to be in a LOT of places (not just shopping, they’re going for work, etc. Even NASCAR mentioned above.)
Amazon hand-scanner ad. It’s loads of fun.
All very cool. Until one day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_SVNVIfzk
The title says ‘Guess what stores...’.
I would have liked to see a list of some of them, but the article did not provide.
I like self-checkout better then paying more for goods so the store can hire people to do that job. It’s not free.
When do the customers get to start unloading trucks and stocking the shelves?
Of course, I'm a white person, so it won't ever be for free. But I'll pay less.
Don't forget to add in the credit card surcharge!
Aw, H-E-double-hockeysticks NO.
This is just more of the leftist gimme-dat culture.
Been buying subs from Subway for years. For take out orders it would not be unusual to ask for mayo on the side not on the sandwich. The server would then put a small packet of mayo in the bag. Last week bought a sub with mayo on the side. I was surprised to see a .50 cent charge for the mayo. When told they never charged for mayo on the side, I was told that that changed. .50 cents for a packet of mayo thrown into the customers bag. What's next? McDonald's charging for ketchup packets? Chinese restaurants charging for duck sauce packets? Charging for water the customer uses in the restroom?
Some genuses haven't figured out that people vote with their feet.
The danger is that once you take the Mark, it’s strait to Judgement and eternity in Hell, no forgiveness.
Actually, they are not overpaid. You are seriously underpaid.
Inflation has destroyed the value of our currency. That $15 per hour is the equivalent of $1.50 per hour in 1970. (Minimum wage in 1970). Except that in 1970, you could pay for a cheap apartment rent and part of your tuition for that semester in college from a part-time minimum wage job.
Can't really do that today.
How much do you think rent was in the 70’s?
It kills me when people tell me how easy it was in the 70’s.
It’s not a contest. If you are trying to succeed in raising a family in the 70’s or ‘20’s….you need more than minimum wage.
And less than 2% of the workforce is paid minimum wage.
apparently those who vote Democrat actually are
People wearing masks and using MOTB (Mark O’ the Beast) technologies.
That’s the bright future we all want!
/S
Tipping for the most part is just a mental game to not raise prices. So many businesses have these extra tip screens. Haven’t seen it in Wally though...at least not yet. It’s one of the nice things about a lot of countries...the price is the price.
Probably been about a month or so now that the Wal-Mart in Grapevine started checking receipts, and the good little sheep just line up as well.
No plastic/disposable shopping bags at Walmarts here at any price.
Previously, when disposable bags were still a thing, bags cost $0.08 each.
We had no problems with shear strength of the bags.
A couple of those pictures show people wearing masks, typical sheep that will do what they’re told to do.
It’s possible the mark in the right hand may be me sliding the card in my hand into the machine, and the number in your forehead may be the numbers in your head (memory) that you key in to authorize your card. The difference is, the time has not yet come where cash is universally not allowed, and the only way to pay is by that card.
I was forced to at two jobs in a row
It works for me in cold weather and maybe high allergy days
Other than that NO
The Greek word behind “Mark” in Revelation chapter 13 is “charagma”
A word for a Mark of ownership as in a tattoo
I did my best to not comply with the idiocy too.
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