• JohneryCreatives@lemmy.world
    6·
    24 小时前

    Just happened to me today. I paid for everything but accidentally scanned the item again while packing. I think the cashier knows me by now

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    21 小时前

    The only issue I keep running into is that the sale price doesn’t match the scanned price. At this point they no longer verify me because I’m so on point with pricing. If it was a different price I wouldn’t have gotten it. It’s a game to me. Love seeing how low I can get my bill to get.

    • Agrivar@lemmy.world
      2·
      20 小时前

      I shop just like you, and I’ve also got the attendants trained just to fix what I tell them is wrong. I love when the actual money spent is less than 50% of the total before discounts/coupons are applied.

  • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    24 小时前

    I love using the phone based scan as you go systems these days. Sainsburys, asda and waitrose all have them, so much faster and easier.

  • Pan0wski@infosec.pub
    4·
    1 天前

    There was a problem every single time I’ve tried to do a self-checkout so I just do a normal checkout because it’s not worth it.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    73·
    2 天前

    I’m never the one that fucks up. It’s always the machine that is the problem.

    Scan item, set in bag. Machine says “hey, you didn’t scan that!” the fuck I didn’t! You beeped! I see the fucking item in the list on your screen! 😬

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      21·
      2 天前

      My favorite was having multiples of an item, getting prompted to enter the quantity, and then having the machine yell at me for just placing them in the bagging area.

      The fuck is the point then?

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        17·
        2 天前

        The best is when you buy fruit all vegetables and it decides that the Apple that you are buying doesn’t weigh the right amount.

        One time I bought the largest potato you’ve ever seen in your life and it decided that it was too big and therefore could not possibly be a potato and must instead be some high value item I was stealing, although nonetheless scanning. But the problem is the alternative is to talk to people.

            • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
              3·
              23 小时前

              Potatoes are cheap by weight. Machine saw a single item and didn’t believe it was a potato. Not that anything looks similar; it just flags it for staff to check.

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 天前

          -dictated on an iPhone/iPad/Mac?

          :)

          Also

          alternative is to

          Be in the top 5% of customers the cashier had that day! (A little reframing for the next time self checkout is down, understand still not ideal)

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    253·
    2 天前

    I just calmly and smoothly switch to shop lifting at large chain stores (not local businesses) if selfcheckout starts wasting my time shrugs

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 天前

      If the self checkout spazzes put and needs me to get an assistant, that’s the last thing I scan at the checkout. Lady comes over, overrides the fail, I say thank you, pay for the stuff while she’s standing there, and put it back in the trolley with the stuff I didn’t scan yet. You see, I was so frazzled and confused by the disruption that I forgot I still had things to scan. Plausible deniability, I never hid anything, it was all out in the open, and the lady was just standing there. If she mentions it, then I can just resume scanning those items and pay for them too. This has not happened in several dozen grocery trips.

      I just get so anxious and confused so easily!

    • blargh513@sh.itjust.works
      143·
      2 天前

      I make it a point to steal a little something every time I’m forced to use these.

      Big box hardware stores appear to have zero people to check you out anymore, so they all give me something every time I shop.

      Pro tip: they won’t bother if you dont steal anything expensive. Additionally, there are cameras in the ceiling that are working with the register to see what is in the cart and determine if you have scanned everything. Buy a cardboard box (cheapest thing that works). Lay it over your cart. Put stuff under it and now the system cant see your cart to determine if you stole something. A GFCI outlet or two never seem to go noticed.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 天前

    “UNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA!

    UNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA!

    …and it was me.” - Bill Bailey

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    18·
    2 天前

    You can’t weigh the vegetable at the checkout.

    Every other store can do that.

    We don’t have a scale in the checkout. You have to walk across the store while everyone is waiting for you because the checkout can’t be canceled to weigh the vegetable and put a sticker on it. It is not guaranteed that the sticker will be recognised at checkout.

    Oh you have a deposit receipt? At checkout to get it done quickly? If you’re receiving money a clerk has to come over to approve.

    You want out? No, the gate won’t open unless you have a receipt. Yeah, yeah, the code reader is, well, confused.

    2 weeks later

    Stupid customers. Did you see how someone accidentally shattered the gate?

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 天前

      Well, the positive interpretation of the place you live based on this story is that the people in the place you live are extremely polite and compliant lol.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
      121·
      2 天前

      May I ask which country? We never ever have self-checkout-issues at all. It’s a bliss I waited my whole life for. Reducing unnecessary social contacts 😁

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          3·
          2 天前

          I think it really depends on the store. In the UK I have to say that they’re generally pretty terrible, but the ones in M&S (a UK supermarket) are normally fine. Tesco’s has the worst ones, they are always complaining about something and there’s never enough cashiers to fix them. Plus of course occasionally they just decide to pick on you and rescan all your items.

          IKEA ones are floorless though

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
          2·
          2 天前

          Germany. Sadly not soooo many shops got them, but those that do, there it works. Best part is that it feels like 90% don’t use those (and weirdly prefer to stand in line for 25m. Like a good kraut!) so we save literally hours each month.

        • Demdaru@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 天前

          Not who you asked but I live in Poland and our self-checkouts are pretty flawless in my opinion. Simple combination of scale, bardcode scanner and touch screen and voila. Most shops that have them, have at least four of them. Supermarkets often have 6-8 and dedicated employee to oversee them, sometimes with their own touch screen and ability to bypass age checks or weight problems from their stand without moving to you.

          They only scream if you scan something age-restricted or if weight doesn’t match. The second problem was much bigger in beginning, nowadays it’s actually rare.

          Edit: Oh, and we do have that scan-the-receipt to leave. Again, early on they were…less than flawless, but today they work ok. Heck, one supermarket got it installed only a year ago and damn that scanner is snappy af. Sometimes scans code before I manage to fully position it xD

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 天前

          Oh…Ruhrpott here, we really never ever encountered any problems in any shop so far. Except when they’re being broken completely and repairs take 5 years, like the usual amount of time.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      1·
      2 天前

      All of the self checkouts I’ve seen clear the transaction automatically if you don’t touch them for a couple of minutes. There’s a prompt asking if you want to continue, and if that times out it just resets

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 天前

        I actually haven’t seen one that does that yet. Although most of the stores they have near me put them in a while ago though. They typically want to retain the info for loss prevention purposes. I know the store closest to me would have to audit all of the non sale transactions at the end of the day or next morning.

        • Skua@kbin.earth
          3·
          1 天前

          Oddly enough I’ve worked as both a cashier sometimes watching over self-checkouts and also as an engineer in a company that manufactures self-checkouts (although I worked in a different department and only occasionally helped out with the checkouts). They can log that stuff no trouble. They cancel it as far as the customer sees, but that doesn’t mean anything for what it keeps behind the scenes. At least on the ones I worked with, there was the option for cashiers to retrieve the most recent state and print it out as a receipt either for the customer or to scan it to transfer to another checkout

          • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
            0·
            1 天前

            Well they apparently have a time from inactivity to human resolution time tracker. If things look sketchy, especially multiple times they start investigating the self service employee.

            But again, these machines are relatively old. I am not even sure if they have an auto reset or void feature. I have had to ask a clerk to clear out a prior order because of said system failure.

            • Skua@kbin.earth
              1·
              1 天前

              That’s fair enough. While I’ve seen a lot more of the insides of self checkouts than the average person, I definitely don’t know the ins and outs of every model out there, not even close

  • don@lemm.ee
    10·
    2 天前

    Cashier: you have no idea how many ways and to what degree I’m plotting your murder.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 天前

      Oh…apperently I’m too evil to be a cashier.

      I wouldn’t murder. I would go about my day, without a trace of evidence that I’m even angry.

      I’d just come over, help the guy, and take note of his appearance, and the current time. Then I’d head to the back after my shift, and talk to the security guy. I’d make up some reason I have to check the security tapes. But I’d do it in a way that sounds like it’s just buddys being buddies. Nothing suspicious.

      Then I’d watch the tape 10 minutes after the encounter. I’d watch the parking lot. See where he goes. Find him getting into his car. Take note the make and model of the car, and the liscense plate.

      Now I use public records to track him down. I find out his name, his address, his work, his life. I find out everything I can about him.

      Now I hire the biggest musclehead there is. Not to beat him up, but to have an affair with his wife. Make his wife feel properly fucked and orgasm multiple times. Make it a regular thing. All without the wife realizing it’s a ploy.

      His marriage ends, as his wife no longer loves him. And NOW the real plan can commence.

      I’d hire a woman who looks visually similiar to his wife, but much more dominant. I’d hire her to seduce him, but also take control of their relationship. She’d have him whipped, and play off his emotional insecurity that he would lose her if he doesn’t do what she wants. And she’d get demanding, and have him whipped.

      She would eventually take him to an actual dungeon. She’d get him naked, and tied up, laying on his back with his ankles being worn as earrings. And as he’d tied in that position, completely vunerable, that’s when I emerge from the shadows, revealing my master plan for revenge!

      Except, it was a forgetable moment, 5 years ago. He has no idea who I am. Doesn’t matter. He’s already in position, and I’ve worked too hard to get this exact moment to where it is.

      He’s totally exposed, vunerable, and can’t move.

      COMMENCE THE TICKLE TORTURE!!!

      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 天前

        as someone who works in a grocery store* off the top of my heat I cannot remember any customer (I don’t know outside of work) OTHER than a funny Irish man and someone with a confederate flag shirt.

        when I’m on cart duty i DO remember bumper stickers though, I take photos of the funny ones sometimes. Also bugs/birds/cats/etc are all free reign to gawk at.

        a tiny spider I saved while cleaning out one of the check out areas

        fluffy cadpiller!!! 🐛🐛

        I got bored and little bits of stuff fall off sometimes so I started collecting them. This isn’t an animal but it’s a nice memory 🌻

        uhhhhhhhhh

        ???

        *also technically I’m a “front end service” something, so I bag and do carts and clean sometimes, but it’s close enough to a cashier

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 天前

      I imagine they’re depressed. Their job is to help out idiots every few seconds. When not doing that they’re probably pondering the validity of a doomed race.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        13·
        2 天前

        I’ve been a cashier before, and while it is a deeply dull job honestly the people screwing things up are not the problem. You help them, they leave, you forget about them. The ones that made me hate it there are the angry ones and the management