wouldn t expect are rolling out self-checkout. kohl s, bed bath & beyond. h & m, others, self-check out controversy. some love it. think it moves more quickly than regular cashiers, others frustrated. think about the errors. you hear unexpected item in the bagging area, please, place item in the bag. i m team real tree with kaitlan and team real people! i want to say, hello! how are you? thank you. and jobs! the problem is they can t find workers for these jobs and investing heard the fed chief last week say expect more investment in technology in jobs they can t secure people for. buying sweatshirts for the boys. surprised. bump it all in a bin. wave your phone and walk out. don t have the to scan it. just put the bag on the thing and, boom, it does it. so easy.
the errors. think about the number of times you hear unexpected item in the bagging area. so irritating. but stores really like it because it saves them money on labor. they can move cashiers to other parts of the store. plus they want to keep up with the latest technology. retail is an arms race. once one rolls it out. my personal experience, that woman there, she is a little faster than i am. i m always looking if there s a sticker missing from the produce, you have to stretch out the bar code to make it scan. i did check out the stuff at uni glo, sweatshirts in the bag, throw it in a bin and pay for it. some think it s faster to use self-checkout. with all of the errors it can be slower than going through a cashier. how many times have you had to have somebody swipe their badge to help you get through there. congress held a hearing on
why do i have to ring up my own groceries? why do i have to get yelled at by the robo nagger, please put the item in the bagging area. hey, i m trying, but the bagging area isn t big enough to fit a roll of life savers. i want to bring back john avlon who has had this experience. i was at a mcdonald s last week, and i had to ring up my own order on this keyboard. first of all, this is fast food. it doubled the time of me spending the time. at mcdonald s. we re not trained in. i m not trained either. why is this concept never anywhere like useful, like the dmv? i d love to check myself out at the dmv, or someone fun, like the bar? can i get behind there and make it myself? great idea. that would actually be okay. helpful. furthermore, maria? i m not trying to steal stuff. but i am stealing stuff inadvertently because when i don t know if this thing is
working, if it s actually registering it. and i m just putting it in my bag and waltzing out. exactly. and then the robo nagger, is that what you called it? it s not only please put the item in the bagging area. double-check the item. you re right. maybe it s in there. maybe it s not. how many bags are you using? you gave me tiny bags. maybe zero. i m sure they re losing money on this. it s certainly done in the name of efficiency and decreasing the number of people they have to employ. but it s not more efficient for the customer rick riley, this is a great humor column. it s what we were all thinking. i don t work at grocery stores. apparently i work at american airlines too. cvs, target, i m checking myself out more than a seventh grade girl on tiktok. that s a good line. i wonder if it s generational, because my kids love it. they do love it? that s a big word for this. in fact, when i m in the middle of it trying to figure it out, they re like mama, they
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