Day 4910 of telling people that being introverted and having social anxiety are not the same.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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i am not afraid of the cashier. I just want to continue listening to my music and be left the fuck alone while paying too much of my income on basic necessities.
Exactly what i wanted to say. I am pretty introverted, but i 100% prefer having a nice little chat with the cashier instead of having a machine scream at me to put the item in the bagging area
Preach
The majority of self-checkouts I've tried were such a clusterfuck of bad UI design, and it's made worse by the requirement to have a human check your ID when you're buying alcohol etc., which is a huge bottleneck when a lot of people are using SC. And when you inevitably push some wrong button that puts you into a situation you can't get out of without employee intervention, you (as an introvert) are in a far worse situation than if you had just used a regular checkout (though cashiers in my country don't really do small-talk, which obviously helps a lot from an introvert perspective).
Here in sweden they all work fine, biggest UI problem is that they require you to tap the screen before you can tap your card and start scanning..
As usual, Swedes live decades in the future.
don't worry, we also have decades of cultural erasure from our own government and we're currently in the process of dismantling every public instituation in favour of privatizations, we'll be a dystopian hellscape soon enough.
Yeah I absolutely prefer the regular checkout. They don't care if I say a word or not. It's faster and more convenient and it is 100 times less awkward than waiting for help or sneaking away when you realize this isn't working and you need regular checkout. Stupid Rewe stupid herbs that don't weigh enough I CAN'T MAKE THEM WEIGH MORE you stupid scale with your stupid put the scanned product on the basket side
Except I am also severely frustrated by how crappy they are, with 50% of my checkouts requiring pressing the bloody assistance button.
Problem between bag and screen
The original skill issue
PEBBAS; sounds fun!
Here they work fantastic
Same, they are so damn frustrating that "that makes 13.89, you want a receipt?" "Yup" is preferable
Just 50%? You're a pro cashier I would say.
They are ok, but the implementation in some stores is terrible. The one closest to my home has a scale that measures the weight of the products you scan. Almost every time I use it that scale decalibrates itself or doesn't properly detect that I put the product down, and locks itself until a cashier comes and solves the issue. And it locks itself for other reasons too, like if a card payment fails, you can't retry until the cashier comes and unlocks it. The only advantage is the smaller queue.
I'm not sure about that, I feel even more observed at the self-checkouts.
I love the supermarkets that have a beep thing, that you use to beep everything during shopping, than you just hand the beep thing over to the cashier or beep it at the self check out, pay and get the fuck out of there.
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and shoplifters