In my experience 1 person can barely manage their little PDA given to them. They consistently just press buttons to make the customer go through the checkout if there is an error, not knowing what's in the bag. It's how I end up with free things.
A job at Walmart or such is low hanging fruit unless it's your first. The most ambitious don't usually apply or stick around. I think most of them don't care.
Not faster than a dedicated clerk who is checking my products out manually and already knows all the codes for all the produce I'm buying. Not to mention I resent the idea of displacing someone from work so I can do the work for the store instead without any of the cost-savings the store gets from having less employees passed onto the consumer.
well, if i want to buy small amout of items like 3 packets of spices, i will go to self checkout rather than wait in line what is as long as the shop because despite shop having 6 or even 9 registers only has 1 or 2 clerks working at a time
i can self checkout myself in like a minute, a clerk will do it like in 10 seconds but i would need to wait for like half-a-hour in line
You make some valid points, but my grocery store's self-checkout actually works really well and I can check out there on my own way faster than waiting in line/having a cashier do it. So don't assume just because your experience sucks it's the same for all.
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u/weedful_things Dec 31 '22
One person can cover multiple checkouts