• snowby@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      I love my self-checkout, so much better than waiting in line for a slow cashier to make chitchat.

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        7 hours ago

        Cashiers are fast. I don’t want to search for the catalog number for all my produce. The cashiers have it memorized

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          7 hours ago

          Most produce has a sticker with the code on it and most stores have now made it to where you can just scan the little sticker barcode anyways.

      • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

        I mean, I don’t much care about the chitchat, but self-checkout is almost always faster. I only avoid it when I have alcohol or pharmacy items.

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          6 hours ago

          We were talking about this the other day. Is it faster, or does it appear faster since they have removed so many cashiers? Like 20 lanes and 1 cashier, with 4 self checkouts.

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            6 hours ago

            Well, most stores over here have around 10-16 self checkouts in the space that would be occupied by 4-6 regular lanes. So I’d say it is faster even accounting for people taking longer.