I never wanted to grow up to be a grocery clerk.
However, that is what I've become now. Every time I go to Kroger and find they only have two clerks at the checkout, with the lines backed up to the beer in the back, I become a grocery clerk. And I don't get any kind of break for it. No 10 percent off or anything.
I use the "self check outs" only when I have to. I am very slow at them and prefer to use them only when I have less than five items.
Today I had a good 20 items, but the lines were long. The lines in Kroger generally stay long. Then you have to decide if you're going to stand in the line or go through the self-check thing.
When I use the self check outs, I can never find the bar code. I fumble with my food. I try to keep it neat and orderly and can't. Stuff goes everywhere.
That woman's voice irks me, too. "Please scan your item." "Please place the item in the bag." She says that so quickly that you never have time to get the item in the bag before she speaks. And then she'll tell you to do it two or three times because you're not fast enough.
"Please wait." "Please contact the checkout clerk." I get that one a lot. "Please scan the next item." I get that one a lot, too. "Do you have an coupons?" "Thank you for shopping Kroger!"
All of that for $36 worth of food. Which in this day and age, isn't very much.
I don't like the self check things either. As a matter of fact, I've never done it. I don't get paid enough to do their job. Oh well.
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I've never been brave enough to try one. I have no tech no logic for those things. I don't like the regular beeping at the check out with each item scanned. I find it so irritating and loud!
ReplyDeleteThe best reason not to use self check is they help Kroger and other corporate fucks in their continued effort to lay off employees, curb benefit payments, show less accountability to customers and destroy gains made by grocery workers unions.
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