My cousin wrote this out of frustration, but I DO agree with her!!!
So I’m at Walmart and the only checkout line is backed up and I overheard an associate say, Oh, they’re just too lazy to check themselves out!
When I turned to look at the line I was furious. Everyone in that line was well over 70 years old, including me!
You listen here Mr. 20-something-year-old Walmart Associate. These folks are the backbone of this country. These folks are not lazy. They were not born into a computer generation. While you were playing video games and learning to navigate a computer they were working in the steel mills, mines, dress and shoe factories, restaurants, stores, farms and ranches, and countless other jobs, without the aid of a computer or your silly little phone you have your head buried in all while making between $14 and $16 an hour….You twerps would have never made it back in our day…
These “Lazy people” can still work circles around you and they have a work ethic and drive that you probably know nothing about. Just because someone doesn’t feel comfortable using a self checkout does not make them lazy.
And before I forget it… those lazy people pay your salary. Instead of you and others walking around being judgemental someone could have offered to help them on the self checkout.
If you ever have to get your vegetables from the ground instead of the produce department guess who you are going to need help from… those lazy people!
Be careful of the toes you step on today… they might be attached to the butt you have to kiss tomorrow!
Right on, Cuz!
Brava!
Until ANY RETAILER gives me at least a 10% discount to check myself out, their $15/hour flunkies are gonna do it.
I was asked to use the self checkout at a wallymart. i told the person that i don;t work here! she just stared at me.
The local Wally World here gets interesting, When the multiple self-checkout lines opened few people would use them, telling the associate they would rather wait in line and employ the cashiers. Three years later it still holds to a large extent.
Well Said!
My time is worth a lot to me.
I scan myself out mostly.
I ignore the receipt checker at the front door, because, again, my time.
I refuse to use self-checkout even if I only have a couple of items. I figure I’m either saving the company money, without any incentive to lower prices, or I’m costing a person a job.
And they’ve got the slowest checker working the register.
You idiots are still shopping at walmart. There is your second mistake. First is thinking the younger folks give a shit about Boomers in the first place. You fucked them all over and now you want respect? Don’t work that way. It’s only going to get worse for you so settle in.
Boomers “fucked them all over???” REALLY??? You mean the same Boomers who gave their kids America at its best so that those same kids could trash and badmouth the place every chance they get? The same Boomers who carted their kids’ lazy asses to school every day in air-conditioned comfort? The same Boomers who gave their kids the “space age technology” that produced the “smart” phones and computers on which they globally whine? The same Boomers who used, re-used, repaired, and repurposed just about everything so that their use it and lose it, no deposit, no return kids could call them environmental terrorists??? REALLY??? THOSE BOOMERS??? Funny; you don’t seem to mind taking their money and living in their basements.
CHILD, you have A LOT to learn about life, and EVEN MORE to learn about RESPECT!!! Until you do, quit speaking from that aperture between you butt cheeks and SIDDOWN!!!
PS: Many of us are shopping at Wally World because that’s all we can afford. After all, we spent most of our money RAISING AND SUPPORTING YOU!!!
Amen!
Amen, also.
Well said.
If I caught one of my kids talking like that, they’d get removed from the family trust.
I try to avoid Walmart, but there are times it isn’t possible, especially out here with few other options.
They keep increasing the number of self check outs and decreasing the number of cashiers around. Having said that, the people staffing the self checkout are very capable and helpful and if you ask will usually check you out themselves. They don’t seem to put the low IQ types there…
A couple of years ago, I was in a grocery store chain I rarely frequented – their self checkouts REQUIRED a store loyalty card I didn’t have, and the nearest worker wondered why I didn’t have one…
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My wife generally does the shopping and will skip Walmart most times. We do shop together going to Costco or Home Depot or Lowes. We do the self check out if we cannot do it by cashier as we like to keep people employed.
I actually found that locally, our big grocery provider, Meijer’s, just renovated the store I’ve been going to for 30 years.
They replaced most of the checkout lanes with a self checkout corral/loop. Couldn’t get the help to keep the other lanes open.
But they left a few lanes open that are manned, and they even provide baggers! And it seems most prefer self-check!
I prefer someone bagging for me. Like when I was younger.
Our small town has Walmart, Ruler’s (step down Kroger) and a price gouger that I will not darken their door. Nearest Sam’s is close to 60 miles. I only self-check due to watching checker put veggies in bag and pick up some can and dump them on top. I also watch closely if sale items ring up correctly which they often don’t. So with self check I have none of these problems. I can double bag my frozen items my self and perishable arrive home still in shape with no dents, broken stems. And actually checkers have a time limit on checking out an order. Too many time’s running over and your off the register.
I avoid self checkout because the checker is a nasty and grumpy.
(Yes, I know, hardly original but true)
The first store locally to adopt the self-checkout stations experienced such a massive push-back against them, they chose to remove them and haven’t brought them back. Other stores that adopted them since have kept them, but it’s always a mix between cashiers and self-checkouts. Nobody that I’ve seen has been crazy enough to try “all self-checkout.”
Product loss through self-checkouts is higher than through cashier stations. This negatively offsets any savings on wages and benefits companies thought they’d get. Inflation is NOT helping in this regard. One lone employee watching multiple self-checkout stations can not watch all customers at all times, especially if they have to help a customer with a machine that’s experiencing some kind of problem.
I wonder what happened to Walmart’s grand idea of having everything RFID tagged, and just pushing your cart through two standing poles (RFID transmitters/receivers within) that read everything in your cart all at once and presented you with an itemized list and a total?
All- Thanks and some interesting responses. Hedge, how did we screw them over? Just curious…
We forgot to give them their trophy for being born.
When I read that comment, I heard a strange rumble. It sounded like a troll.
Might have been flatulence, though.
Hey Old NFO;
I have them check me out, I have heard of cases of mistakes during self checkouts where the stores then go after the patron for “shoplifting” and it is real PITA to deal with because the store tries to save a few bucks on labor. Also self checkout cuts jobs and my old labor background is kinda froggy against it. if a store is totally self checkout only, they are my store of last resort…Hear that Lowe….
I avoid the self-check outs since they either crash or need the approval of a missing human. It is usually less stress to load the purchases on the conveyor belt and let a cashier do what is needed. That usually takes less time.
Tom- Thanks! Seems Hedge was a troll…
Thanks everybody else!
When our local Home Depot got their first scanners I told a cashier I refused to use them because they were anti-labor. She replied, “Oh, no. Nobody got fired; they just cut our hours.
Some “associates” deserve what happens to them.
Stop shopping there.
Also, just saying: It would be a real shame if someone bought glass etching compound in the craft aisle, which somehow developed a leak, and it accidentally got spilled onto the self-checkout scanners’ glass panels, rendering them unusable, now wouldn’t it…?
Watch Lt. Valeris in Star Trek, or google the etymology of the word “sabotage” sometime, when you’re bored.
What goes around, comes around.
My sister lives close to the Pennsylvania border on the Maryland side. Lot of Amish, and their horse and buggy traffic, they do have to use ‘English’ stores. Don’t know for certain if they use bank cards, debit cards, or self checkout lines. Or “GASP!” Paper money and coins! That would confuse millenial a**hats. Toss in some $2 dollar bills, and they would melt down. What is this Eisenhower or Susan B Anthony dollar? I used to ck bank for any dollar coins, for being an a**hat back to businesses that are rude.
Bob- Yep, cut hours to save $$$ on required ‘benefits’
Aesop- Point
Richard- I have a few $2, we used to be paid in them!