You should change place then??

Wait, is this a thing? What's wrong with you people?

It's not that bad, it's just more bad than self check.

Personally I hate waiting in line, I can feel the life leaving my body. I self check for speed.

Apparently line impatience is an ADHD thing, but regardless of where it comes from I appreciate being able to do it myself instead of waiting.

I am definitely not an outgoing or social person, but a big "Thank You" to all those pro-self-checkout folks ITT for making me feel like a social butterfly. I'm gonna brag and annouce I can say, "Hi." and "Thanks" to a cashier like a goddamn boss.

That is if the cashier isn't even more socially awkward/angry at their boss than I am and refuses to talk at all.

Woot! I'm gonna run for office!

Reporter: "Sturger, how are your policies going to improve life for the average voter?"
Me: "Get these goddamn cameras and microphones out of my fucking face. Thanks."

Camera pans as I push my shopping cart out the door like a pro.

Stores near me first put in self checkouts around a decade ago and still have the original, problematic machines. It's the newer stores or ones recently renovated that have upgraded, but that is rare.

In every store I've been in, I'm the guy who has to take everything out of my cart and put it on the little conveyor belt thing. Self checkout is a second or two on top of that (which is usually made up by not having to wait in line) with no real additional effort (I'm already picking up and placing my stuff in a specific spot) I also can type in my number for the coupons at the same time I'm scanning my card, and move the bags into my cart as my payment is being processed, which ends up saving even more time.

The only place I appreciate a cashier is when I get a boatload of groceries at Costco, those folks are box-packing wizards.

As a former cashier, I really hate people like you.

No, I will not check out your groceries for you. You are in self checkout. Wait in line like everyone else if you don't want to check out the items yourself, you impatient, obsolete bastard. FFS, self checkout has been a thing for over twenty years now; get with it, old man!

(Edit: I haven't been in retail for over a decade now. This post really triggered some PTSD I didn't even know I had.)

Have you been in the American minimum wage job market in the last 10 years or so? Every job that pays minimum wage doesn't give enough hours for the employee to be full-time, which means they don't get benefits, retirement contributions, etc. In these cases, outside of the onboarding costs, a $15 an hour employee does in fact cost $15 an hour.

A grocery store I used to frequent, I always picked this one lady's cashier line if she was around 'cause she was nice to talk to. She liked Mortal Kombat and making her own pickles.

I used to work service, and having people to talk to generally made the day much better. I definitely had favorite customers, and what do you know, it was typically people who were social.

Oopsie, accidentally forgot to scan an item

(Don't worry, I check the statute of limitations so you can't charge me with a felony )

I know I'm in the minority

Dude look around the comment section. 90% talk about prefering self checkout

That's what I'm saying! Not 1 in 20 cashiers give a shit to chat you up. And I'm in the American South!

Is there something physically preventing you? That sounds like a thing the fire department would shit all over.

I guess the store I went lost more money than what the cost of maintaining these barcode scanners and the system itself was.

I would kill for this. Maybe not kil, it's not a big deal. But I used to walk into my local grocer and just drop shit in the reusable bags I always bring. Then people were stealing, obviously, so they said you gotta use the baskets or a cart. So I use a cart, and it's not a big deal, it doesn't matter, but if I could scan, drop in my bag, and walk on, it would save a couple minutes. But as I said, it's not a big deal, nothing matters.

I love my self-checkout, so much better than waiting in line for a slow cashier to make chitchat.

I've never even considered it. If I have too many items, I go cashier. We shoot the poop or we don't, I bag my groceries and go home. If I have few items, I qualify for the self-checkout, I do my shit, say "Thank you" to the person who monitors the lanes, and then I go home. I give none of it a second thought because it's such a meaningless part of my day.

Aww.

Well, I know this doesn't help, but you know you're never going to get over this without messing up a few times, yeah?

When I learned to sing, I was so overcome with embarrassment that I could barely do it in a big building I knew was empty (I was the closing manager for a while). I only got over that feeling by singing anyway. I would get loud, my voice would crack, I would stop and apologize to the ghosts nearby, and then I'd steel myself and try again. This built a lot of confidence, though. I learned not to fear the embarrassment and eventually stopped feeling it altogether.

If this matters at all: to the right kinds of people, being a little embarrassed is endearing anyway. I would help somebody learn the self-checkout if they didn't know.

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Is this a type of drag queen? I agree you probably wouldn't need one to pump gas.