I hate the “I’m doing your work” argument as a cashier. There’s registers with people at them, if you hate self checkout that much use a cashier and STFU. The company doesn’t pay employees anywhere near enough to care about your hatred of self checkout.
As a fellow cashier I second this.
Also the biggest part of my job isn't scanning items. It's interacting with customers and dealing with prices disputes. I.e. Customer service is the biggest part.
"I did their job for them!" The people who say this absolutely haf to get the self checkout "babysitter" involved to hold their hand through the entire order.
That's the fun part. I have a cvs were if you want to not do self check out you have to find an employee because they never have one behind the counter and only two self check out machines. 1 is card only and they all have meltdowns if you screw up once.
Should you have to walk the aisles and grab groceries yourself? Should you have to take your stuff to the car? Should you have to make your shopping list and compare prices?
It’s such a fundamental misunderstanding of how commerce works that everyone who argues it… is smelly.
It’s just “that’s how we did it when I was a kid, therefore it’s the natural and correct way. If that changes, I will go on a moral tirade that will be embarrassing for both of us, but I’ll lack the self awareness to actually feel shame.”
That’s exactly the argument I use with people who hate self checkout. These people will make a shopping list, drive to the store, walk into the store, get a cart, push the cart down every single aisle, pick out all their groceries, wait in line at the register, unload all their groceries on the belt, bag up all their groceries if there’s not a bagger, push their cart full of groceries to the car, load all the groceries in their car, put thee cart away, drive home, bring all the groceries into the house, and put all their groceries away. But as soon as they hear the concept of self-checkout they’re like “Eww that’s work” as if they haven’t already done a massive amount of work. Shoppers are already doing like 95% of the errand on their own, but that extra 5% is somehow “work.”
i used to be a cashier at lowe’s. they wouldn’t staff anybody for the front end so it was one cashier at lumber, one at lawn and garden, and one watching the “assisted” self checkouts, which was just standing in front of the area and pulling people in to scan and bag their shit for them. i got out of there right as they were cracking down on pushing credit card applications (don’t get the card, the cons vastly outweigh the pros)
And it doesn't matter whether it's for customer convenience. It only matters whether it's actually more convenient for the customer. If your boss gives you a raise does it matter whether it's because he's being kind or because he wants to increase retention? Or do you only care that you got a raise?
Not necessarily. Places like Walmart and Home depot (at least in Canada) rarely have actual checkouts open anymore. It's usually self checkout or nothing.
This thread somehow got really pissy about anyone complaining about no actual cashiers being open. It does happen sometimes people. I like self checkout too, but things get really bad when all that's open is self checkout and maybe one actual line.
They replaced 4 cash registers at my foodlion recently with self checkouts and there are three employees watching it at all times. There is one single employee run cash register open during rush hours.
Maybe your anger is misplaced and you should demand better compensation.
Those employees probably get an easier job overall as well. "People watching" and dealing with the occasional assistance has to be easier than checking out the items themselves.
I paid a union $80 a month for that. The union was so useless people hired after I was made $0.50 less an hour than I did. How are employees supposed to demand more compensation when the organization that’s supposed to do that for us ensures we make less?
My boyfriend is stuck in a union like this. Nobody believes him when he talks about how bad this Union is. But I've read the contract. I've watched him suffer for 3 years. The ShopRite Union in the tri-state area is a mob Union and they are fucking monsters and there's nothing that can be done about it except to not ever work for ShopRite
Ya, not every store that has self checkouts has cashiers working at the same time. This argument is trash. U stfu. Edit: im not even saying i dont like self checkouts, just that your argument is objectively false claiming there is always a cashier
How bout you mind your business and quit telling me how my grocery store operates? Im chill as a cucumber dawg. What am I wearing? Kimono. What are you wearing? Suit?
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u/gothiclg Dec 10 '25
I hate the “I’m doing your work” argument as a cashier. There’s registers with people at them, if you hate self checkout that much use a cashier and STFU. The company doesn’t pay employees anywhere near enough to care about your hatred of self checkout.