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[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Here in NZ, the self checkout is the preferred option for any amount of shopping. It's so much quicker and you don't have to engage in pointless small talk. I just got home from doing some grocery shopping and they had about 10 self checkouts and maybe 2 or 3 human ones that nobody was using.

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago

Australia also.

At the larger chains they're pretty good now.

Its rare you need assistance and there's always someone hovering around.

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't enter a store without coming out with beer, an item that needs to be age verified by a cashier. I always have to stand around waiting for one of them to leave the cash register and come over and clear it.

Pisses me off.

Give me my god damned beer so nobody gets hurt.

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[–] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yo, recommend me a beer! I don't like hazy stuff but everything else is on the menu.

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Look, I don't know where you live, your standards, or your money situation, so it's a tricky ask. For me I drink the cheapest shit because I drink a lot of it, but I recently went to Laos, and they had a beer, like basically the only beer they have, called Beerlao, which is partly made with rice, and it's fucking FANTASTIC.

If you can find that shit on the shelves, try it out. Though tariffs just hit Laos exports with 50% so, my advice stands- buy the cheapest shit possible and drink a lot of it because what is about to unfold in the world will require you to be drunk or dead to endure it.

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[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Is it really? I've never seen such a sign in my corner of the US. Often there's only one human operated checkout.

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[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

The 'let the kid touch the hot stove' approach.

It worked on me, but I fear other people might nurse their burns and pray that next time things will be different.My experience is different. It's a dense urban grocer. Now that you mention it, I've been to Target in the suburbs where SCO was like thunder dome. A little more room for bagging, but not much. I feel so bad for the one team member dashing around checking IDs and explaining why coupons from a decade ago no longer work.

My location (different grocer ) may be privileged, because, even when it's slow, there are two full service registers. I remember how gross it felt watching a checker at Walmart in 02 also bag the groceries because baggers didn't exist any more.