Are you sick of self serve check out being crammed down your throat?

Everyone gets an opinion. I never abandoned when there were checkouts open. I've let people with less stuff "cut" in line. I will wait my turn. I just don't capitulate to doing what I see as part of the service I pay for.

 

Capitulate, word of the day.

 

That's no Karen mate, this is a Karen...

 

Thats certainly reasonable to me and I've done the same with other patrons. However I find it deplorable and counterproductive to load up a cart and then leave it because the checkout line is too long, regardless if there is a self checkout option or not. Sure that's just my opinion but I think most would agree with me.

 

Until you enter the register there is no transaction. Ever looked at a car and not bought it?

Seems a bit counter productive.

Deplorable? Exaggeration again

 

There is little correlation between passing on a car and walking out of a grocery store because your above waiting in line. I would easily call it counter productive since you would probably drive 15 minutes each way to the store, another 30 minutes shopping and then refusing to wait in a 10 minute line to cash out.. then of course starting over as you still need to go get groceries.

Leaving your mess for someone else to clean up is deplorable. Leaving a cart full of perishable food in a busy store is no better than stealing as most of it probably gets tossed, especially with the pandemic going. Thats even worse. All because the line was too long. This is the epitome of first world problems- "I'm surrounded by all sorts of fresh food but I have to wait in line and therefore my life is sooo tough"

 

Good one!

Next is Karma, not "carma" though that's a pretty good fit considering we're here about cars!

And of course, it's phonetically just fine, unless you're not familiar with English LOL

English, and the slang, is a pain in the butt to learn.

Oh, hey! I replied to this topic earlier, but now I have to go back to see what I wrote!

Or not.

Devon

PS Ok to talk about Karma कर्म any time anyone is interested. I'm not the one with the goods, but I have students who are, and are good at explaining such stuff.

PPS As a kid I stole stuff. Got arrested. Didn't do it again.

PPPS as an adult I got arrested for a fight. Deserved it. My lawyer was my martial arts teacher, still is. How humiliating was that? Huge. The night in the dungeon paled compared to seeing him again. Not doing that again, either.

 

Was at Lowes tonight and all cashier stations closed so you had to use self checkout but staff was standing by to help folks. I asked one can I get my Veteran’s discount at the self checkout and he said he would check me out at normal register, he did and I got my discount..

 

Sorry for the PS and PPS and the rest above, am I showing my age at 54. Perhaps when one is writing a letter, "Post Script" comes after to include more writing before a send.

Geez, does anyone write letters other than me?

Devon

PS I don't really need to do it here, just click "edit".

 

Never left anything because of a line. I do my shopping on the way home from work so as not to have the "drive over" only the drive back. My first world problem is no check out with a live employee. I don't want help at the self check out, nor a "reminder" they the self check out is available. I want a smiling employee to ask me for my reward card, ask of I found everything ok and thank me for business and hand me my receipt. I'm already miffed they don't take the groceries out to my car and put em in any more.
I'll wait in the line no prob. Even if it is ten deep(or more) and only one open. And this is why I need the receipt as there is usually a web thing where I can "voice" my opinion on my shopping "experience".
Have a check out open or I'll leave the cart full and after it happens a couple times I won't be back. I have a store that has been boycotted not three blocks from my house over this very issue and I haven't been In there in over three yrs even though it is the closest. The next closest on the way home got boycotted for over a year and I drove past my houae to the next closest on the other side to buy from them as they have cashiers and thank me for my business. Not a hard thing to do but it seems it is a dying action.
And as for your feeling, I guess I'm am one of the deplorables. And I am ok with that. They wasted my time filling the cart and they had no check outs, they get that full cart back, Don't care what happens to it after that.

 

When the manager on duty refuses to allow trained capable workers who are already there to open registers that are sitting unused because a screen hanging from the ceiling says ‘NO’, even when lines grow long and customers are getting frustrated, then yes, I’ll choose to leave. You call it deplorable. I disagree. I’m kind. I’m understanding. But I’m not meek. I’m not going to accept ‘my hands are tied’ from the manager nor support a corporation who enforces that culture. But call me deplorable again if it makes you feel superior.
Patrick

 

Yes Karma! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it written but I do live by it!

 

I think you're missing the context he posed, which was leaving your cart behind (anyone here call it "trolley"?) with perishable food.

 

I get why he’s calling it deplorable. But I didn’t ruin or waste any groceries. I called and told her where the cart was and why. If they went to waste it would be because the manager made yet another bad decision.
But if a person doesn’t know me, he or she might call me deplorable. Don’t ask for my vote after that, though.
Patrick

 

Karma works just the same for bad Store behavior, inconvenience me and make me do your employees work and I pay your Karma check right then and there and walk away, leaving a full cart or not I don’t care.

You see, we both have a job to do, my job is to come to your store and choose things and pay for them, the Stores job is to make me happy I did my job.

Life is simple, Treat me right, I treat you right!

 

We call them "buggies" down here in Alabama!

 

Ya know, I was at the local gas station the other day, filling up my truck, when I remembered this thread.

So how many of you who want to take up the pitchforks and torches on this issue, pump your own gas, and have been doing it for years?

How is that any different? I could argue that is much worse.. your forced into handling a stinky, corrosive and flammable liquid... vs a bag of Oreos...

The only difference I see is that there was no internet 30-40 years go, when full service gradually disappeared... oh my.. could you imagine the internet traffic and bitching if there had been...

JW

P.S. (cause Devon and I are the same age)... if you live in New Jersey, or some other government jurisdiction that assumes your too stupid to operate a gas pump, and prohibits it, your input is not valid on this issue..

 

I, for one, will never take up torches on the issue of pumping fuel.

My expectation of full service at a gas station hasn't existed in 30 plus years. The Speedway I normally get gas from has overflowing garbage cans, filthy gas pumps & islands, empty bug washes, and often times you must "see cashier for receipt".

I can well imagine what condition grocery stores will be in if they continue down the rabbit hole of cutting humans and the ownership they normally take in their workplace.

Can we refer to the internet bitching as "commentary"?

You have to admit the thread took a lot of interesting turns...never would have expected confessions

Now, please pass the Oreos!

 

I live in New Jersey so I know both sides of the pumping gas issue . If you think the prices will drop pumping your own that will last a maximum of a year . If the Stations don’t raise the prices most likely state will just add some tax to make up for the cheaper prices .

My personal preference is to continue having my gas pumped and believe me there won’t be a choice of pumped or self service once the self service is implemented .

Here are my selfish personal reasons.

If I’m cleaned up going to an event I don’t want to be out of the car in foul weather getting messed up . This part of the country we ordinarily don’t go to weddings in T shirts , jeans , and backward baseball caps. We only dress like this on every other day . Lol

I get gas in Pennsylvania occasionally and noticed people will pull in to fill up then just leave their cars or trucks to run in the store to get beef jerky and a monster drink blocking the lanes up ,sometimes seemingly never returning . This is maybe ok in rural areas without much traffic , but in NJ this would be a pain as the state is loaded with either the self centered it’s all about me individuals or general unaware of the world around them types.

I think it’s pretty convenient for parents with taliban kids to not have to leave them unattended .

The Stations with attendants typically are cleaner and well maintained . They generally still have motor oil , trans fluid and windshield wiper fluid , paper towels on the islands .

I always kind of considered this a perk rather then a prohibition .

ps . The attendants usually allow motorcyclists and hotrodders to handle the actual pumping duties when there are spill issues .

 

Speaking of the Speedway, I always get gas on the way home from work.

Every once in a while I would stop for a coffee on the way to work. I'd squirt it 2/3rds full of Toffee out of the machine and then top off with decaf from the pot at the end of the counter. The last 2 times I went in they had changed it all to machines - there was no longer a woman there brewing the coffee. It tasted like doggy. I noticed nobody else was getting coffee either. I haven't been back inside since and that was probably late winter.

The change may have been spawned by Covid, but either way, they got rid of some "hours", and the customers...