The end of the checkout?

[davidc4430]

The end of the checkout signals a dire future for those without the right skills

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-17/end-of-checkout-dire-future-for-those-without-right-skills/11...

can only wonder who will shop in the supermarket of the future when no one has a job?

[lurker172602]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Won't happen.

If the big ones do it then the other supermarkets will make having checkout service their selling point or a chain will open to cater for that market.

Thinking of all those mums that fill 1-2 trolleys every week or two, they don't want to stand there and scan all their items after having done a major shop. They will go elsewhere with checkout service.

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I'd like to think you are correct but, remember full driveway service petrol stations? 

[domino-710]

Oh - the days - of someone rushing out.

Filling your tank - it didn't shut off in those days.

Meanwhile washing your windscreen.

etc etc etc.

Edited to say - they even checked your tyres.

[wide-world-of-stamps]

When our local supermarket got self serve checkouts a couple of years ago, we said to the staff that we wouldn't use them so as to help keep them in a job.

They told us that the self-serve aisle actually gave them more work, as a staff member had to be employed to look after that area at all times, rather than just manning an extra checkout at busy times.

They're quite happy for us to go through the self-serve checkouts, and after our last visit to a manned checkout, when the scales we discovered that the scales had incorrectly weighed our items, we're happy to keep using them.

Yes, we spoke to the manager about the discrepancy - we didn't want a refund, but to let them know that there was a problem, which they checked (we wouldn't have noticed except that we bought a small piece of ginger and the cost was higher than usual, so we checked all of our fruit and veges when we got home).

[domino-710]

Well - it's even going to be not only a slower process - but epic.

I'm now taking my own scales - weighing - geez.

WWS - that is wrong - we assume we are not being ripped off.

[lyhargr_0]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

I put my stuff on the check out in order I think they should be packed,

Ok I am OCD.

All the cleaning, Shampoo stuff together, all the packet stuff together and last the bread and crackers  because I dont want them to be flattened 

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I do the same, makes it so much easier to pack it  back into my trolley and into my car   .......'n Im not OCD    ...... Am guessing you dont do your main grocery shopping at Aldi?

[wide-world-of-stamps]

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@domino-710 wrote:

Well - it's even going to be not only a slower process - but epic.

I'm now taking my own scales - weighing - geez.

WWS - that is wrong - we assume we are not being ripped off.

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We've never had a problem in the past, it's a small town, so hopefully it won't happen again.

We also like the self-serve checkouts as we use egift cards (Woolworths has a 5% off arrangement with senior's card holders), so it's easier to do it ourselves.

[lionrose.7]

No Adi in NZ 🙂 mind you think most of our super markets are aussie owned.

[domino-710]

Wear the fur - & - take your own scales.

They will not defeat us. lol

[lyhargr_0]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

No Adi in NZ 🙂 mind you think most of our super markets are aussie owned.

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Thats good   ..... Aldi isnt Au owned BUT they do employ 1000's of Aussie workers, buy AU grown meant n produce etc and their prices cant be beaten.  Apparently they are great to deal with if you are a wholesaler, 'cause they pay their accounts on time ...... If I was rich, I might shop at WW or Coles for all my meat and grocery needs  but Im not, so I am more than happy to save money by shopping at Aldi and pack my own bags.

Plus I dont like the fact that WW support/own poker machines, so I use them as a last resort

[travlyn2012]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

I put my stuff on the check out in order I think they should be packed,

Ok I am OCD.

All the cleaning, Shampoo stuff together, all the packet stuff together and last the bread and crackers  because I dont want them to be flattened 

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I do exactly the same thing, there has to an order to pack them, when using a trolley I shop in order

to make it easier to go through the register so things are in order.

May have to back track a couple of times but I dont mind. 

Wifey prefer the serviced registers, says the price is the same if we had to scan & pack our items,

and by using the the serviced registers they do 2/3rds of the work and keeps people employed.