Stores around here are trying to condition us to use the “self check” lines. They work only with exact change or a charge card (one of them won’t even take charge cards, though they do accept debit cards), and they are totally unable to cope with anything more than a 10th of a sigma from the mean. Some of the stores have moved ALL their trained checkers to be either stock-people or freight handlers and have only minimum-wage newbies on the checkout lines.
I personally refuse to use the self check lines. The hell with doing their work for them. Of course I also avoid the one store in town that has moved all the slowest possible people to the checkout lanes.
Stores around here are trying to condition us to use the “self check” lines. They work only with exact change or a charge card (one of them won’t even take charge cards, though they do accept debit cards), and they are totally unable to cope with anything more than a 10th of a sigma from the mean. Some of the stores have moved ALL their trained checkers to be either stock-people or freight handlers and have only minimum-wage newbies on the checkout lines.
I personally refuse to use the self check lines. The hell with doing their work for them. Of course I also avoid the one store in town that has moved all the slowest possible people to the checkout lanes.