This is what happens when you try to “save” money by forcing people to use self-checkout.

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    1 year ago

    Ist shopping on the sales floor free labor. Back when you would hand your shopping list to a worker and the would give you all your stuff. (funny enough online pickup has kinda brought that back). Things change over time

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      1 year ago

      As someone else mentioned doing online pickup forces them to hire staff. I don’t mind wandering because sometimes I’m not buying, I’m comparing etc. But eliminating 10 cashiers to have customers scan their own, only helps the corporations steal more money from workers.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, much more staff is hired for online shopping

        However funny enough some store increased the hours they had for the front end, I worked for a Walmart that did a conversation and they added like 400 hours to the schedule for monitoring and running the registers. Biggest thing is now they can have 20 registers open and pay for 4 cashiers, before they would have just only had the 3 cashiers and 3 registers. So I would not say the self checkout took jobs, it changed how the job is done

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          I wish we had that out here, but here it used to be 15-20 lanes open, now it is maybe 4 and 20 self scan, but only two employees doing self scan. you get 2 people mess up and those employees are busy and so now you are stuck waiting in line for your self scan that went weird. also only a quarter of self scan actually are usable, the rest have the red light saying it is messed up