Self Checkout Lane

Are these stores really saving money by PISSING OFF ALL THE CUSTOMERS?

as usual, I found some image online to support my blog entry (above) and I think it’s ironic that this was a picture from home depot… in my opinion the WORST OF THE WORST when it comes to self checkout.

I mean why have 10 registers? Just to impress me during the grand opening and maybe around Xmas time? The rest of the year I have to find some way to ring myself up for a bag of nails… rebar… and pieces of lumbar too big to fit in the staging area?

This morning it was the save-mart or what-not… up the road here… All I wanted was 2 bags of ice. Do you know how long 2 bags of ice takes to buy when there is nobody in line? Should be fucking effortless… but no… the whole process took me 5 minutes before the machine was ready to take my monies… the All-Seeing-Attendant tried to ring me up but pushed a few wrong buttons and then had to scan some badge of his at my self-checkout-terminal twice just to get the thing to unlock.

After all is said and done and precious minutes of my life have been wasted, the attendant says “Have nice day… don’t forget your ice.”

Someday… mark my words… the Self Checkout Lane will be looked back upon as one of the signs of the impending end of civilized life on this planet…

1 Comment

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  SeventhSwami July 27, 2007 at 6:41 pm

  8 Comments

  Pab “War Vermin” lo
  Fri, July 27, 2007 – 12:12 PM
  Funnily enough, I like the self-checkouts. I’m a fucking whiz-bang PRO using the ones at Albertson’s. I’m just completely anti-social like that.

  kArO lindaVida
  Fri, July 27, 2007 – 12:37 PM
  i’ve only had good experiences and by-passed standing in long lines behind those afraid of the computers. love the picture

  “the Self Checkout Lane will be looked back upon as one of the signs of the impending end of civilized life on this planet…”

  i agree.

  * virtual hugs n kisses*

  FaernWorks™
  Fri, July 27, 2007 – 12:45 PM
  i don’t use them
  but how much do i shop at places that have them?
  very very rarely, they be stupid to impart them at art stores
  shit, half of those already are self serve from what i see people doing in them…

  Swami
  Fri, July 27, 2007 – 12:58 PM
  i think i singlehandedly closed down an aaron brothers in high school that way. =\

  Evinrude
  Fri, July 27, 2007 – 1:07 PM
  I’m with Swami. I hate the self-checkout. I think it’s totally pointless. And especially since there’s a fucking CLERK there to make sure you don’t steal anything or whatever. What’s the point of not having them just check you out in the first place?

  FaernWorks™
  Fri, July 27, 2007 – 1:43 PM
  cause the clerks are stealing?
  or they don’t want to take the time to check if they can count?

  Ms.Dynomite …like so much Fonzi
  Fri, July 27, 2007 – 1:44 PM
  I don’t use them. I figure if I’m going to do their work for them, they ought to be paying ME. not the other way around.

  friendly_jen
  Fri, July 27, 2007 – 1:55 PM
  Self Check Out Lanes
  are a testers dream. We live to see…what will happen if. I think they are fun. But then I NEVER go shopping in a hurry. Its like an adventure every time, and where I live totally sureal.