Bad Move Lowes!!!!

[2LaneCruzer]

Self checkout is great at Costco and grocery stores, but sometimes not as handy at HD or Lowe’s when you get bulky stuff. I now love self checkout, didn’t at first.

I hate the self checkout. I never know what kind of produce I buy, and I always put something wrong in the sack, or don't put something right in the sack. I get my arse chewed out enough by Sharn Jean; don't need some imperious robo-female at the check out stand to add to it.

 

[dragoneggs]

I love the self checkout at HD, now that you get to use a cordless 'gun' as long as there is a bar code on each item (I check when I put it in my cart). If I have multiple items I shoot the first one as many times as qty and move on. The clerks tend to scan each item in your cart regardless of if there are multiple identical items.

 

[Oaktree]

After the cashier scans what I've chosen, there's a QR code that appears on the customer display.
I scan the code with my phone and it's automatically deducted from my bank acct or added to my Visa card.

We're becoming a cashless society.
It's coming sooner than you think.

Whether we want it or not?? I see no advantages to going cashless and there's the big privacy downside. Plus, not everyone has (or wants) a smart phone, and credit/debit cards are more hassle than they're worth for small purchases. Hopefully, that day is a long way off.

That having been said, I do use a CC more than I did 10-15 years ago, especially for gas.

I like the self checkout at Sam's club. Only issue is age verification on nicotine lozenges. Then I use the regular checkout since most of the helpers for self checkout aren't allowed to do age verification.

I use self checkouts whenever I can, don't understand the hate some have towards it. Is it just that it's &^%$ newfangled technology or is it something else? Never fails I always seem to pick the line with the slowest cashier when I have to use one.
For some reason neither Shaws nor Price Chopper (only 2 supermarket chains nearby) offer self checkout...Shaws discontinued it a couple years back, PC never had it (at least any stores I've been in).

I don't know how age verification works around here...nothing I buy requires it.

 

[Oldoak]

I don't like "self checkouts". There is usually one item that refuses to be scanned. The stores that have them should give a discount for using them. What's next? Maybe have their customers stock the shelves for them while browsing the isles or maybe attach a dust mop to the shopping carts?

 

[Dftodd]

Whether we want it or not?? I see no advantages to going cashless and there's the big privacy downside. Plus, not everyone has (or wants) a smart phone, and credit/debit cards are more hassle than they're worth for small purchases. Hopefully, that day is a long way off.

That having been said, I do use a CC more than I did 10-15 years ago, especially for gas.



I use self checkouts whenever I can, don't understand the hate some have towards it. Is it just that it's &^%$ newfangled technology or is it something else? Never fails I always seem to pick the line with the slowest cashier when I have to use one.
For some reason neither Shaws nor Price Chopper (only 2 supermarket chains nearby) offer self checkout...Shaws discontinued it a couple years back, PC never had it (at least any stores I've been in).

I don't know how age verification works around here...nothing I buy requires it.

Around here you get carded for buying aerosol paints. That will slow you up considerably at a self checkout at one of the big box stores. Especially if the assistant for the self check out is tied up with a snafu on another lane.

 

[Diggin It]

Whether we want it or not?? I see no advantages to going cashless and there's the big privacy downside. Plus, not everyone has (or wants) a smart phone, and credit/debit cards are more hassle than they're worth for small purchases. Hopefully, that day is a long way off.


I use self checkouts whenever I can, don't understand the hate some have towards it. Is it just that it's &^%$ newfangled technology or is it something else? Never fails I always seem to pick the line with the slowest cashier when I have to use one.

Those two are kind of contradictory, no?

I'd prefer to deal with a person who has a job, even if a menial one. I don't like machines taking over for people.

 

[dragoneggs]

Those two are kind of contradictory, no?

I'd prefer to deal with a person who has a job, even if a menial one. I don't like machines taking over for people.

I guess I’m just a DIY sort of guy. Hate standing in line waiting for somebody to do it for me if I don’t need to.

I like machines doing things so I don’t have do to it slower by hand.

 

[reb]

Lowe's lost much of my business when they dropped major brands of electrical and plumbing parts.

I agree with Diggin It--I see self checkout costing jobs. How are folks supposed to support business if they don't have a job?

 

[aczlan]

Lowe's lost much of my business when they dropped major brands of electrical and plumbing parts.

I agree with Diggin It--I see self checkout costing jobs. How are folks supposed to support business if they don't have a job?

I have a friend who was a shift manager over the checkout area at Lowe's for a while, they had a hard time getting and keeping enough people to pass a drug test and show up for their shifts to keep 1-2 registers and a 4 space self checkout station open.
While I would prefer more cashier's working, I can't really fault them for going the self checkout route given the issues that they have with staffing (ornlack thereof).

Aaron Z

 

[bullbreaker]

Awesome. Next step is to "chip" me. Then I don't hafta carry a wallet. I remember reading about a similar system somewhere, can't remember where though.

:laughing: If one is a bible reader / etc you might have read it in Revelation 13: 16 and 17 ............................