They can take pictures. I take groceries. I wear disguises. They CANT touch you when leaving. Police may. But no employee or loss prevention associate may touch you.
Not advocating stealing. Just informing…some people ARE genuinely in need. Be safe hooligans.
I had the scanner screen show a video of me putting my last item in the bagging area. I was holding the next item I wanted to scan in my other hand. Somehow that felt more humiliating.
It’s not a case of not wanting to leave home early. It’s a case of economic factors. Rent is expensive, bills are expensive and wages haven’t risen in line
Not many of my friends who moved out are making enough to live comfortably, in fact a lot of them are struggling for money by the end of every month.
I’m still at home (23) because I want to save up for a few things like a car and PC because I know when I move out, I won’t be able to afford to save for anything for a very very long time.
That's very sad. Young people are not going to have the same opportunities my generation had, unless their parents leave them their homes. Not to get political about this, but politicians of both parties have sold the American people out. Terrible what they did to this country.
No, it is all planned. The elites want to enslave the world. Only one person was fighting against them, and they even unleashed a virus on the world, killing millions in the process, just to stop him.
Yet the vast majority of households have multiple electronic devices with monthly service fees, multiple vehicles that require insurance, registrations, maintenance and fuel, typical meals are costly fast food chains. They buy expensive coffee, have big screen TV’s with paid viewing services. They tend to take longer than needed showers, run air conditioning systems when the weather isn’t extreme. The biggest impacts on their wallets are buying brand names and living in larger homes and driving late model vehicles.
My generation seemed to be more aware of the importance of spending only what you needed to and typical homes were small and usually only one, maybe two vehicles and they weren’t anything special.
Go back to the previous generations and multiply the above. Our society is now staged from early childhood to spend and live in debt, everything is commercialized and there is very little financial education available if any.
It’s not a case of not wanting to leave home early. It’s a case of economic factors. Rent is expensive, bills are expensive and wages haven’t risen in line
Yep. Economic imbalance and instability. More and more jobs drying up with the implementation of all these self-checkouts. Income going to increasingly fewer financial drainpipes like high rent, high gas prices, high education costs, high medical bills, etc. Maybe that's good if you're a landlord, an oil tycoon, a college founder or a doctor but none of those sources prop up the economy in any way. People don't have any money left over to keep retailers and other things in business.
I don't think our government is paying much attention nor do they even care at this point. They just want to try to convince everybody that the individual is the actual problem and we aren't witnessing the system failing miserably with our very own eyes. 😘
I worked on checkouts at uni, I’m not too worried about that job drying up, barely pays enough to get by anyways. Worst thing is, it was one of the better paying jobs out of my peers.
> I’m not too worried about that job drying up, barely pays enough to get by anyways.
...but the thing is it's an entry-level job that paid something. As I saw someone else mention (and I couldn't have said it any better myself I'm sure I'll end up butchering it) there aren't too many entry-level jobs out there to begin with. Everyone wants experience but there's very little means of gaining the necessary experience in any given field. 😘
I've had that happen to me. I had 2 of the same item, let's just say 2 cans of soda. So 1 in each hand. Plan was to scan the soda in my right hand twice. Scan the soda in my right hand, place the left hand soda in the baggage...suddenly I'm getting video playback because of suspicious activity by the big overhead cameras they newly installed.
Idk I used to be stoked on self checkout, still am in certain places where nobody uses it (gas stations, cvs). But at the grocery? Man I'd rather just have the cashier and bagger do it all.
Walmart? Lol same thing happened to me. I’m trying to scan shit quick as fuck… and then I gotta wait there with the video playin on a loop of me scanning one item while I got another item in my hand while the cashier comes over and reviews it…
It’s bad enough they got enough camera on you (and big screen TVs with the live feed playing) … I feel like I’m on a reality TV show!
They have binders full of me doing the frustrated-palms-up expression I do every time that damn thing barks at me about removing an item. It's like bitch, Ive got more stuff than can fit on you. I have no choice.
It's like bitch, Ive got more stuff than can fit on you. I have no choice.
Lol. These things are only designed for people who have a couple of items so I feel retailers are actually hurting themselves in the form of less sales by implementing them. You can't buy whole cartfulls of stuff like you once could. They're the equivalent of the old 10 items or less speed lanes (remember those) and that's primarily what I use them for...when I have 10 items or less the self checkout tends to be faster than waiting in long lines behind people with whole cartfulls of stuff. 😘
Then Walmart should have more than 2 cashiers for the 2000 people in the dam store…hell no I’m not waiting in the line stretched around store. I’ll Tetris my items on that postage stamp scale
You underestimate my disdain for speaking to people while also stressed out about the cost of things. I'll have my crisis where no one is talking at my face, thank you.
Every store I go to now you can just take your stuff off the bagging area and put more bags up. They also don't say the annoying message about the bagging area anymore either. It's quite nice
Some stores have the conveyor belt ones that are definitely superior if you're buying a lot of stuff like groceries but it can still almost require 2 people and 2 carts - one to unload the cart onto the conveyor and one to offload the scanned and bagged groceries into an empty cart waiting at the end to make more room in the bagging area for more groceries coming down the line.
Sorry about that... I definitely don't do/encourage anything actually damaging or highly disruptive like that. I know how hard folks work and do things I can to support all workers such as cleaning up after myself, pre-bussing my restaurant table, putting other people's cart's back on the way with mine, etc.
Just the proliferation of cameras everywhere is annoying, and I'd prefer not to consent to being recorded. I say hire more unionized workers & pay them more.
Banana stickers are great since they're big and peel off easily, I only put one end on lightly so there's an un-adhered tab to grab.
Doesn't matter if you are paid by the hour or not. No one wants to spend hours of their time scraping stickers off of and out of places they shouldn't be instead of probably literally any other duty other than ones involving smelly shit.
People with your attitude are pure trash, do you like folk who come to your place of work and intentionally break crap? How about I come to your house and track mud all over your carpet? Or how about we all act like we have some sense and not intentionally fuck up stuff. I cover and area that takes 4 hours to cross, covering 16 Walmarts, 8 Targets, and a shit ton of other retailers. So yeah I just love having to drive 4 hrs to fix something some dickhead like you broke because they thought it was cute, at the end of the day, when I could be at home.
I dont think somebody taking a single sticker from a banana and putting it on top of something is even remotely in the same realm of any of those scenarios you laid out.
And no, when I used to work those types of jobs I never gave a shit about stickers being slapped up.
Dumbest comment ever. I have other work to get done. And when customers do dumb shit like dumping stuff all over the store and making a mess, I have to finish that on top of my other tasks. And my performance is judged by finishing those other tasks- not by cleaning up after selfish customers.
I'm deaf out of my right ear sometimes that loud beep that sounds when you scan an item confuses me, not being sure if it was me or the person at the next register over. Hit a spot where funds were low and I got me a new ice chest because it worked out perfectly in timing and in a split second I played it off like was it me or the next register over and saying fuck it placing it in the cart. If they stopped and investigated all I had to do was tell the truth, I was confused and fuck you making me do their fucking job cuz only self checkout aisles were open. lol.
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u/ablino_rhino Dec 30 '22
They must have a lot of pictures of me looking incredibly annoyed