"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 08/22/2018 at 12:25 • Filed to: shitposting

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Nom De Plume > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:29

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These just get worse and wittier as time marches on.

Self Checkout

LOREM IPSUM > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:29

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Yup. That is an accurate representation of the rage those machines frequently induce.

Still usually better than dealing with people though.

facw > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:30

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And yet, I’m still annoyed that none of the grocery stores around me have self-checkout.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:36

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Self checkout: Hire fewer employees, make the customers do the work, pass the savings on to the shareholders.

Urambo Tauro > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:37

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“Your cash has a little crease in it, I can’t accept this.” *spits money back out*

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 08/22/2018 at 12:39

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...or, in the case of an Atlanta Wal Mart, if I’m not mistaken, don’t have enough people on hand to monitor self-check against rampant shoplifting and rip self-check back out again due to losses.

A shame, because the lines there were a lot better when the self check was operative. (Went there regularly while in school).

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Urambo Tauro 08/22/2018 at 12:40

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I swear that the ATMs at my bank get worse and worse at accepting money with “character” as time goes on.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nom De Plume 08/22/2018 at 12:42

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Haiku fail. Should be:

These get worse and worse

Yet wittier as time marches

Fucking Self Checkout

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:46

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I don’t ever have issues with these, but I don’t ever shop at Wal Mart, so...

facw > ttyymmnn 08/22/2018 at 12:51

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I greatly prefer self-check. I’ll admit that not having to deal with a cashier has some appeal (this may not be normal), but the real benefit is decreased wait times. Self-checkout speeds things up significantly.

Stores on the other hand generally hate self-checkout. Like normal express lanes, customers who use self-checkout are often people who come in an buy a small number of items on sale, as opposed to people coming in to do a huge weekly shop, so are worth less (this is also why express lanes tend not to be fast, stores don’t want to encourage this behavior, so they don’t keep enough lanes open. The exception are stores with large prepared food sections, people aren’t going going to buy their (high-margin) lunch at your store if you keep them waiting for 15 minutes at the register). Worse, shop lifting is apparently a huge problem with them.

They may have installed them with the hopes of passing work off on the customer and saving some money, but today many chains see them as a bad deal, and if they keep them, it is because customers want them, not because the store sees them as a great way to cut costs.

Goggles Pizzano > ttyymmnn 08/22/2018 at 12:51

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Self checkout: Move jobs for unskilled and uneducated to tech sector. F’ those guys, right?

Svend > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:53

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Dear god, ours at work do this all the ruddy time, it’s either,

‘un-expected item in the bagging area, please remove the item’,

‘item removed from the bagging area, please replace the item’,

‘please rescan item’,

‘place item aside for approval’* ,

‘unknown item’,

‘scale not working’,

‘please replace the item on the scale’,

etc...

*items requiring approval, high caffeine energy drinks for under 16s, alcohol for under 18s, any knives for under 18s, tabacco for under 18, large amounts of painkillers, etc...

Nom De Plume > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:57

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Failed for improper use of format.

You’re two panels short

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:59

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This is the least questionable use of this meme that I have ever seen.

user314 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:59

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There’s also the Darmok & Jalad version, which I can’t find now for some reason.

LongbowMkII > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:02

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My experience is that it has gotten so much better. Back in in early oughts it wouldn’t be uncommon to rage quit trying to pay for  a fruitopia

functionoverfashion > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:04

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This made me laugh so hard I had to close my office door. I love and hate self-checkout equally.

I have it DOWN because I so often go in for like, 3-5 things. I use apple pay from my watch , never bag anything, just pile it all up until it spits out the receipt. Then I pile it all into a giant bag I keep in my car for this exact purpose. I wonder how many people have been behind me when I’ve done this, and thought, “hey, he never paid. did he? ”

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:06

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Who puts cash *in* an ATM?!? Everyone knows ATMs are for getting cash out!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/22/2018 at 13:09

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Well, I manage a cell phone plan for myself and several siblings, and occasionally do Big Purchases of other kinds and get reimbursed in cash, and prefer to use cards to pay with, so...

Nom De Plume > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:22

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I like using it at the grocery store when buying just a handful of things. There is a nice big sign you have to walk past that notes it’s existence is just for this purpose. Not waiting on line for someone with two cart s full is duly appreciated.

What I have found to be the key to this working is a free standing register/scanner at the exit. Inevitably there are holdups which can be alleviated just by having one employee who can check people out.  People who have no more than will fill a single small bag.

404 - User No Longer Available > ttyymmnn 08/22/2018 at 13:25

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As a s ocially awkward and anxious introvert... I greatly welcome our self-checkout overlords.

facw > Urambo Tauro 08/22/2018 at 13:26

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Cash  

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:28

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I’m heading to a Walmart right now, wish me luck.

Urambo Tauro > facw 08/22/2018 at 13:30

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D OLLA DOLLA BILLS Y’ ALL

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/22/2018 at 13:31

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PLEASE PASTE CUSTOMER IN THE BUGGERING AREA

blacktruck18 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:37

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user314 > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/22/2018 at 13:42

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I do use them at Walmart, but I’ve never had problems with them. I have had issues at Giant Eagle (supermarket), mostly w hen buying gift cards (before they had signs informing you to go to a regular line) and light produce (again, more my fault),  trying to buy one jalapeno was more difficult than it needed to be.

diplodicus > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:44

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What confuses me is at meijer there self checkout some how is aware if you double bag an item. Like you take two bags for one item and it will say unexpected item. But both bags came off the scale. I don’t understand. How does it know I used two bags when the only weight that was actually added was the item. Happens every time though, I just stopped double bagging things and hoping my mixed veggies don’t cut a whole in the bag and fall out.

My bird IS the word > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:45

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It’s even worse when your in charge of these machines.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > My bird IS the word 08/22/2018 at 13:53

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I can imagine.

PartyPooper2012 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:54

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climb up on the bagging area... jump up and down slowly. Item removed. Unexpected item. Item removed. Unexpected item 

PartyPooper2012 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 13:55

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$2.99

move your.............dramatic pause.........bananas to the conveyor belt.

I use that voice when I am behind a left lane hog going super slow....

move your..... dramatic pause.... stupid ass....... to the right lane

TheRealBicycleBuck > Nom De Plume 08/22/2018 at 14:05

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“Not waiting on line for someone with two carts full is duly appreciated.”

Except where I go there are always several people who figure that they can check out two full carts faster than the cashier, thereby mucking up the whole system.  

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 14:10

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Checking out of Walmart is a nightmare, even with self checkout. I detest Walmart.

ttyymmnn > facw 08/22/2018 at 14:12

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I don’t dislike self checkout in principle. I think the number of items should be severely limited, though. I used to go to a grocery store with self checkout and people would stand there for half an hour scanning their basketful of groceries. My Costco used to have self checkout, and I loved it. But they removed it.

ttyymmnn > blacktruck18 08/22/2018 at 14:18

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I enjoyed that.

facw > ttyymmnn 08/22/2018 at 14:19

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I don’t really care about item limits, as long as they provide enough machines. Some people can be tortuously slow even if they have a basket of things. Though it is true that mo st kiosks are designed for people who aren’t bagging that much stuff. When they were first being deployed, my local Giant had ones that were actually full sized conveyor belts, so they could handle a full load if you wanted to, and Giant generally did have at least one bagger servicing the cluster so that some or even all of your stuff might be bagged by the time you finished scanning and paying.

blacktruck18 > ttyymmnn 08/22/2018 at 14:37

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Bill Burr is probably my favorite comedian.

So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky > ttyymmnn 08/22/2018 at 14:44

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I’ve stopped going. It takes too much time with the long checkout or the messed up self check out. But I do encourage you to go to the Daytona Beach Walmart during the Daytona 500 weekend to people watch. 

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 14:46

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WITNESS ME

ttyymmnn > So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky 08/22/2018 at 15:03

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I’m sure that’s quite a show....

So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky > ttyymmnn 08/22/2018 at 15:10

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It’s one of the most redneck places on Earth until the main race starts and then all the locals come in and it’s super ‘urban’, like someone flipped a switch

Die-Trying > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/22/2018 at 16:02

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i keep an account at chase, just for my online parts ordering (i have a serious distrust of using my bank card anywhere) so i find out how much my parts are going to be, load the card at the atm, and send off for the parts , that way i dont have a mess of money laying around for someone to theft from an account, or double charge, or overcharge, or fee tack on ...... works out decent.

ttyymmnn > So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky 08/22/2018 at 16:17

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Sort of like living in TX. The absolute best time to go to the grocery store is on Sunday during a Cowboys game. The place is empty.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 20:45

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This honestly made me chuckle out loud.

I hate self-checkouts for this exact reason.