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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 153 points 8 months ago (35 children)

Fuck this bullshit article.

I fucking love self service. I don't want to deal with people.

Just let me buy my stuff and get out. I don't want or need small talk.

I want the disgusting supermarket shop to be as cold and sterile as possible.

I bring my own bag. I'd Honestly rather just scan everything as I go. And just pay as I walk out.

Current system is stupid. Walk around shop picking things up. Then take everything out and rebag

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

That system has been a thing for at least a decade in most supermarkets in Sweden, is it not a thing in (I assume) the US?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Assumption wrong.

Although may be correct. I don't know USA shops.

In the UK some shops have had them for 10 + years but not all shops. Lidl for example did not.

Although my current area is NZ. Some shops again do have them but not all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

That's fucking brilliant and would actually make me not hate shopping with a passion. That system just makes so much more sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the little self scanner thing you can take around the store as you shop is not much of a thing in the US.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My local grocery store does it with their smartphone app. I shop this way almost every time. Bag as I go, then stop at a special self checkout at the end to pay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your grocery store has cell service? I lose all service the second I step inside mine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

They have wifi! The cell service is crap though.

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