RI: Self-checkout battle as retailers blast bill to restrict number of registers and discount for self-checkout

[commandcomm]

In my opinion grocery will go the way of the Kroger model in Oklahoma.

Kroger has a stocked warehouse. Customer makes and online order and items delivered within a day.

Once this model is perfected and prices are competitive with delivery, there is no longer much reason to go to the grocery store.

 

[skyhawk1]

I used to hate self check out and like a lot of folks refused to use it, BUT with all the crap going around like covid I use it a lot more. As for Sam's I love to just use my phone to check out not dealing with anybody except person scanning at the exit

 

[Gadsden]

In my opinion grocery will go the way of the Kroger model in Oklahoma.

Kroger has a stocked warehouse. Customer makes and online order and items delivered within a day.

Once this mode is perfected and prices are competitive with delivery, there is no longer much reason to go to the grocery store.

Ain't nobody but me or the wife picking the cuts of meat we eat. The day the grocery stores go to that nonsense will be the last time they ever sell meat to me.

 

[KOPBET]

I don't understand the logic behind not having employees to operate the check-out lanes, yet they have 50 pickers pushing their bins around the store to fill online orders often blocking the aisles in the process.

 

[1shott]

I don't understand the logic behind not having employees to operate the check-out lanes, yet they have 50 pickers pushing their bins around the store to fill online orders often blocking the aisles in the process.

It actually makes them money.

No business is going to continue on a path unless it is proven to make them money.

 

[1shott]

Self checkouts are a money maker for businesses. That why they are becoming more more prevalent.

 

[TinkerTanker]

I already replied I think, but one thing I'll miss when this all goes "delivery only" is walking down the aisles with my grandkids and letting them pick something special. I enjoy giving them a treat and they get to spend time with paw paw on a mission, plus they get something they wouldn't otherwise get.

We'll be relegated to Cracker barrel.

 

[bigb159]

My local Home Depot always has a huge line behind the single checkout they only ever have.

 

[TerryMiller]

While many decry the use of the self-checkout system, it must be proving to be beneficial to the companies that use the system. What I am curious to see is whether they abandon the concept once they figure out that "self checkers" aren't "checking" every item in their basket. Someone using self checkout can lean over to appear to be using a scanner to "check" an item in the underside of the cart but may not actually be scanning the barcode.

Personally, we tend to use the self checkout stations and even step out of our way to show our receipt at the door if we have an item that isn't bagged.

 

[RickN]

If I have to do the work, I might as well order online and save the gas.