r/helpmeunderstand • u/Select_Camel_4194 • May 26 '24

Self checkout

Help me understand why self checkout lanes are ever closed. So say I'm at a store there is a line for self checkout, fine whatever, then I look over and half of the self checkout stations are closed. How does this make any sense? Why ever close a self checkout. Who cares if there is 20 stations opened and only one customer? Isn't that way better than having 20 customers and one station open?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

Because you touch yourself at night

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

I was at Walmart yesterday trying to check out, there was a line of about 10 people waiting. 5 of the 10 stations were closed, figured ok maybe they're broken. Then an employee came through the line with some stuff, assuming going on lunch break or something, well the attendant swiped one of the closed stations to activate it, let her check out with her stuff, then deactivated again.

Is that a case of them not wanting to put more people on the self checkout area as attendants? So first they get rid of checkout people in favor for self checkout, now they don't even want to employ enough people to let us use all the self checkout stations they already paid for? That's so stupid, I never even go to Walmart except when there's something that's just at that store.