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I Was Reminded Today Of Why I Like Self-Checkout
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<blockquote data-quote="p238shooter" data-source="post: 4192551" data-attributes="member: 24583"><p>I used to hate the "Watchers" at most self checkouts, overly friendly "we are keeping an eye on you" type. Ya Know. Why not just open another register? Still do not get that. I started dating a lady who works as a cashier at a local to my area WM in a small town NE of Tulsa. Mostly works the registers, but sometimes has to be a "Watcher" at the self checkouts. Man-o-man, the stories she comes home with of how people try to cheat the system to steal things. Everything from having two cans of beans in their hand to swipe once or not listening to the beep because they did not put it down into scanner range, to people just as I have honestly forgot to take something like TP or a bag of charcoal off the bottom shelf of the basket I did once. Their hand held devices show exactly what is showing on your checkout screen while looking at your basket. Then there are those changing scanner price tags on items stuck on various major items and then when caught, always arguing it did not ring up right. Yep there are about 50 times more hidden cameras in the average WM store than even I noticed. When caught in a discrepancy and a supervisor is called who can go back and quickly pull up the videos of them pealing off scanner price stickers to move to another box they know they have been caught. To people pushing their $400 cart up front to go in the bathroom then come out and push it directly toward the door to leave without paying. Something like that happens virtually every day that she is aware of just on her shift she is involved with.</p><p></p><p>Myself, I prefer a live checker, put my stuff on the belt shoot the bull with the checker (that's how I met my GF) and I put the bag in my basket to carry out after inserting my credit card. Unfortunately it seems personal service is getting close to being a thing of the past.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="p238shooter, post: 4192551, member: 24583"] I used to hate the "Watchers" at most self checkouts, overly friendly "we are keeping an eye on you" type. Ya Know. Why not just open another register? Still do not get that. I started dating a lady who works as a cashier at a local to my area WM in a small town NE of Tulsa. Mostly works the registers, but sometimes has to be a "Watcher" at the self checkouts. Man-o-man, the stories she comes home with of how people try to cheat the system to steal things. Everything from having two cans of beans in their hand to swipe once or not listening to the beep because they did not put it down into scanner range, to people just as I have honestly forgot to take something like TP or a bag of charcoal off the bottom shelf of the basket I did once. Their hand held devices show exactly what is showing on your checkout screen while looking at your basket. Then there are those changing scanner price tags on items stuck on various major items and then when caught, always arguing it did not ring up right. Yep there are about 50 times more hidden cameras in the average WM store than even I noticed. When caught in a discrepancy and a supervisor is called who can go back and quickly pull up the videos of them pealing off scanner price stickers to move to another box they know they have been caught. To people pushing their $400 cart up front to go in the bathroom then come out and push it directly toward the door to leave without paying. Something like that happens virtually every day that she is aware of just on her shift she is involved with. Myself, I prefer a live checker, put my stuff on the belt shoot the bull with the checker (that's how I met my GF) and I put the bag in my basket to carry out after inserting my credit card. Unfortunately it seems personal service is getting close to being a thing of the past. [/QUOTE]
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