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?
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.
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 😁
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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 😁
Holy shit, better question is what country do you live in? Self checkout is problematic at best in Canada
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
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.
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
Northern Germany
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.