I should get a discount every time I do self checkout
I mean I’m literally doing what you pay people to do, so pay up
If I accidentally put something in the bag before it scans, it catches it immediately, but if it double scans the barcode, it can’t tell it overcharged and the employee has to cancel it 🤔
If you double scan something, it should wait to weight the second item scanned. Where I shop, the machine doesn’t let you scan anything until you put the already scanned one on the scale. If where you are it relies just on cameras, then yeah, it could be faulty like you say.
Had this happen this week at a Tesco Express. The only guy on the register had to call someone out from the back to remove the double-scanned Irn-Bru.
What made it extra awkward was that the staff door was directly down the aisle from the self-checkout, so I could see the employee marching down the aisle so they could deal with this shit and get back to whatever they were doing. I want those 2 minutes of my life back.
Guilty confession: I will sometimes just grab my things and start over at another station. It may be rude, but I imagine it’s not any more work to cancel the whole transaction rather than edit a single item.
Funny enough at Aldi’s if I scan the same two items fast enough it won’t scan the second item probably for this purpose.
For me most often it’s because of incorrect item weight, not because I screwed up. Even if I go to another machine like some of you are suggesting, it would probably end up the same with me ending up wasting my time; and if it’s not the first item, I suppose it might trigger a security warning (i.e. me picking up my items before paying).
I just pull and push on the scales.
Yeah, that sometimes works.
Pretty funny coincidence here
I’ve never had a problem with the scanners, I use them every week.
Then, just a few days, ago…
I got something I don’t usually, it was supposed to be $24, but it rang up as $48. I was on the wrong hook, as it turned out. Anyway, I didn’t want it for $48, so the lady had to help me. She happened to be standing about five feet from me when it happened, and she saw it happen before I asked her. She was taking care of it on her little device.
Thing is, when I noticed it scanned incorrectly, I accidentally put the coffee I was holding in my other hand in the bag without scanning it and without thinking.
So, as soon as she canceled the sale for the thing, another error pops up, which flustered me again, and I kid you not, I did the same damn thing, I put ANOTHER item in the bag without scanning it and without thinking about it or noticing. Like the fucking idiot I am. While I was apologizing for the first unscanned item ANOTHER error appeared.
She was very kind, dealing with the village idiot.
It’s almost like the store should just have a professional there to do this for customers in the first place.
Management in charge of these decisions wildly underestimated how mindless customers are almost all the time.
I work retail and can feel my IQ drop when I am shopping vs working.
I’ve been in a Dollar General store before, that had 4 self checkouts, that were all out of order.
There were 2 human run registers, but no humans to even be found.
I hollered across the store “DOES ANYONE EVEN WORK IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER?!”
Almost needless to say, an employee came to the register, but in hindsight, I probably should have just said fuckit and walked out with the merchandise.
Patience of a god for not doing that
Also me while I wait for them to confirm my id
Me causing it with kombucha instead of beer for a change
