Shop smart!

[Funk]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...it_smart_carts

"FMI research indicates self-checkouts will outnumber checkouts with grocery clerks in the next 10 years, he said."

Hooray for lost jobs!

But the new carts are cool, if not a little over-the-top.

[Kire]

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shop...S-Mart?

[RPGD]

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I swear I thought the topic said "Shop Mart".

[Funk]

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This topic is failing FAST.

[Ryner]

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I dont really like those self check-out things. It's more work for me, and I'm a customer.

[Kire]

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DAMN TECHNOLOGY!!!

A friend once told me to never use the self checkout cuz it costs jobs. Well...hopefully technology will help us move forward...although we never seem to be hurting as a society to fill those kinda jobs.

Mebbe it is a bad thing.

[Nixon]

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My store has the self checkout, and I love it. Most of the time, I have very few items. In accordance with my anti-social nature, I'd rather not deal with anyone face to face. So I get to go in, grab my stuff and leave, without anyone ever bothering me. It's usually faster too, because most people are wary of using that system.

If I had a lot of items, I'd rather have a clerk check me out instead of the automated system, but that's rare...

[Chrono]

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I would love it if my grocery store would have those computers on the carts, so morons wouldn't repeatedly ask where the Peanut Butter is...ITS ON 8 YOU LAZY *** RIGHT NEXT TO THE BREAD!!!....yeah. And I don't understand why people like those self-checkers; you have to do all the work for what? So you don't have to say like one word to the cashier? My store has 4 U-Scan stations which are all run by one cashier, and that’s where I get most of my calls from: price checks, returns, that kind of crap.

[Vonwert]

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Have you guys never watched Evil Dead?

I would think that would suck, since the best looking employees are usually the ones at the cashiers. Usually...

[Caciss]

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Not at the Michigan based grocery store, Meijers.

No, everyone that works at Meijers has some disease, usually down syndrome.

[Chrono]

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Or most of them are just plain dumb. I hate checking, it's torture, sitting in one space doing repeted motions dealing with moron after moron and then have this white trash mom with 10 kids at the end of the night and she didn't sort out her transaction for WIC items.

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

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I don't like the idea of those things myself.

But the new carts are cool, if not a little over-the-top.

What carts?

[Nixon]

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I don't mind having to scan and bag my own stuff, because I WANT to do that. I'm much faster than most clerks, it's less hassle, and I'm out of the store pretty quickly.

So, to re-cap, it's FASTER and easier for me, personally.

Oh, and the self checkout we have is only for 20 items or less.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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So what happens when a bunch of hobos get ahold of these things.

[The Toecutter]

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Reduced overhead costs, yet wages don't increase nor do prices decline as a result(That money's going to the top).

Personally, I refuse to use them. I'd prefer that people stay employed.