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[-] Spedwell@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Having express self-checkoit is great. The Kroger near me went full-self-checkout. They have large kiosks that mimmic the traditional checkout belt kiosks, except the customer scans at the head of the belt and the items move into the bagging area.

If you have a full cart, you scan all the items, checkout, walk to the end of the belt, and bag all of your items. Takes twice as long as bagging while a cashier scans (for solo shoppers), and because of the automatic belt the next customer cannot start scanning until you finish bagging, or their items will join the pile of your items.

It effectively destroys all parallelism is the process (bagging while scanning, customers pre-loading their items with a divider while the prior customer is still being serviced), and with zero human operated checkouts running you get no choice

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Depending on the system you have, some of them have a divider bar halfway down for that exact purpose.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you have a full cart, you scan all the items, checkout, walk to the end of the belt, and bag all of your items.

Okay? But there's no cost savings on my end and I don't have all the codes memorized, so it takes longer than if a dedicated employee handled it.

with zero human operated checkouts running you get no choice

The humans are still there, though. They're hovering over your shoulder to make you did the job right and you're not buying booze under-aged and you didn't steal anything. All the business has done is off-load the manual labor onto the customer and slowed down the checkout process as a result.

[-] Spedwell@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I was complaining too. Or am I not understanding you?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Definitely crossed our wires.

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