Self service checkout

[Generalzod]

What a con job these self service checkouts are, why aren’t consumers given a discount for using them, after all we are doing the Supermarkets job

 

[Nuke]

I, personally, don't like them and try avoiding them as much as possible, but from a supermarket's point of view, why would they want to give a discount for customers who use them when they can see how many people already use them? Those checkouts are always chockers.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Its not the checkouts that are the problem, its the dopes who don't know how to use them.

 

[Generalzod]

Its not the checkouts that are the problem, its the dopes who don't know how to use them.

My point is that we are doing their job.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

My point is that we are doing their job.

Supermarkets provide goods to purchase. How they do that is up to them.

 

[Generalzod]

Supermarkets provide goods to purchase. How they do that is up to them.

Yeah that's right they cut cost and you still pay for overpriced products, and your performing their task for them.

 

[Generalzod]

My point is to hire more people....

 

[AlwaysGreen]

My point is to hire more people....

Such as the ones that do online shopping for people?

Or the ones that deliver that online shopping?

The world's changing.

 

[Generalzod]

Such as the ones that do online shopping for people?

Or the ones that deliver that online shopping?

The world's changing.

That's right they have people that do that task, Today I went to my local coles in Kirrawee it was busy all self service checkouts where in use, there was only 1 human checkout...I wonder why people use them.

 

[Generalzod]

Lets not forget how these checkouts have cost the retailer in shrinkage.

 

[horrie hastings]

My point is to hire more people....

The trouble is we cannot get enough people to work for Liquorland and the ones they have hired of late the chimpanzees at the zoo would do 10 times a better job. People are complaining they can't find work but there are plenty of jobs but they don't want to do the mundane job of working in a supermarket or such, its a real catch 22.

 

[horrie hastings]

That's right they have people that do that task, Today I went to my local coles in Kirrawee it was busy all self service checkouts where in use, there was only 1 human checkout...I wonder why people use them.

Yep the set up at Coles Marrickville Metro is like that too, only one physically operated check out operating and all the rest self serve, it was amusing watching yesterday as the queue got longer and longer for the check out with the cashier working it, she kept asking for assistance over the microphone but nothing was coming, there are about another 3 checkouts they could have opened with an operator but they refuse to do it as they want to get everyone used to self service, the only thing there is an aging demographic around Marrickville like many parts of Sydney with people in their 70's+ who don't know how to use them and they shouldn't be forced to use them either, disgusting for big companies who are making billion dollar profits.

 

[Bazal]

The trouble is we cannot get enough people to work for Liquorland and the ones they have hired of late the chimpanzees at the zoo would do 10 times a better job. People are complaining they can't find work but there are plenty of jobs but they don't want to do the mundane job of working in a supermarket or such, its a real catch 22.

Liquorland has been that way for years. No one wants to work at a shit business. Coles Liquor f**ked itself in the face about a decade ago when it decided to sack everyone that knew anything about liquor, hire a new marketing team straight out of uni at half the salary and compete with Uncle Dan's by doing nothing but cheap bundle buys.

Especially First Choice. What a cluster. From getting and equal pick of Bordeaux En Primeur every year to f**king 6 for $36 McWilliams Hanwood in the space of 13 months.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

Self-service is the GREATEST thing to happen at supermarkets

I refuse to go to the serviced checkouts because I don't like people, I hate waiting in lines, and they have no idea how to pack a bag.
Self service is WAY quicker, the bag is packed efficiently and how I want it, and I go in and out without talking to a single person.

The argument that self-service destroys jobs is moronic and ignorant.
Plus and more imprortantly

THE ISSUE ISN'T WHETHER THERE IS ENOUGH JOBS FOR PEOPLE, IT IS WHETHER THERE IS ENOUGH PEOPLE FOR THE JOBS.

So my advice to those who hate self service: stop your f*cking whining

 

[horrie hastings]

Liquorland has been that way for years. No one wants to work at a shit business. Coles Liquor f**ked itself in the face about a decade ago when it decided to sack everyone that knew anything about liquor, hire a new marketing team straight out of uni at half the salary and compete with Uncle Dan's by doing nothing but cheap bundle buys.

Especially First Choice. What a cluster. From getting and equal pick of Bordeaux En Primeur every year to f**king 6 for $36 McWilliams Hanwood in the space of 13 months.

Yes we know that Bazal as we have had this discussion before, same at BWS as have family working there also but even they should be able to get some one working in at base level and learn some sort of retail job and get some grounding before realising how bad it is working for the evil empires and moving onto bigger and better things in the industry.

 

[Generalzod]

Self-service is the GREATEST thing to happen at supermarkets

I refuse to go to the serviced checkouts because I don't like people, I hate waiting in lines, and they have no idea how to pack a bag.
Self service is WAY quicker, the bag is packed efficiently and how I want it, and I go in and out without talking to a single person.

The argument that self-service destroys jobs is moronic and ignorant.
Plus and more imprortantly

THE ISSUE ISN'T WHETHER THERE IS ENOUGH JOBS FOR PEOPLE, IT IS WHETHER THERE IS ENOUGH PEOPLE FOR THE JOBS.

So my advice to those who hate self service: stop your f*cking whining

You hate waiting in lines, yet I still wait in line to use a self service checkout.

 

[Incorrect]

My big gripe when it comes to grocery checkouts is the trend I've noticed at my local Woolies when I do my big weekly shop on a Saturday morning. Obviously with a trolley full of shite, you have to use the "long lane" checkout, not the self service checkouts. Invariably there is only the 1 long lane checkout open and it's always the one right next to the service desk/tobacco area.... And the poor f**kers manning these checkouts have to do the job of the checkout person, but then they have to continually excuse themselves every other minute to go and serve some merkin buying cigarettes, or some merkin coming in to collect their online order and any other bullshit query or refund that might come up. So I just end up standing there waiting 2 or 3 times longer than it should take to get my groceries scanned and packed... It's just another cost cutting exercise at the expense of customer service.

And just why the f**k do pricks who buy filthy cigarettes get to jump straight to the service desk and get prioritised over someone like me who was already in the process of getting served anyway??

 

[Twizzle]

What a con job these self service checkouts are, why aren’t consumers given a discount for using them, after all we are doing the Supermarkets job

so don't shop there, problem solved

 

[Generalzod]

so don't shop there, problem solved

Easy for you to say every supermarkets got them now....Tha's why I like shopping at Aldi.

 

[Generalzod]

It's incredible the prices we pay for our perishables and at the end we self selve our selves...