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

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by Brian Albrecht, Sep 18, 2021.

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

  1. Yes

    71 vote(s)
    61.2%
  2. No

    45 vote(s)
    38.8%
  1. buicksWILD

    buicksWILD Well-Known Member

    Rats at the dollar store bother ya, lmao. Just Google any of your favorite restaurants, ill wait.
     
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  2. HotRodRivi

    HotRodRivi Tomahawks sighted overseas

    Your no fun
    Mach1
     
  3. Brian Albrecht

    Brian Albrecht Classic Reflections

    Is that why you steal? Because it's fun? An escape of sorts?

    Perhaps it is to prove you're smarter than those who purchase everything? Smart stealing, you call it?

    Everyone else is stealing, you're just the one guy on here that's being honest, right?

    $900 in California, you say? Do you think there are money trees amongst the fruits and nuts?
     
    Last edited: Sep 25, 2021
  4. HotRodRivi

    HotRodRivi Tomahawks sighted overseas

    After the first time it gets easier on the conschense. The self check out just made it too iresistable. Unless your mr warbucks you go through the checkout. You always walk away looking at your recipt. You go through the self checkout. Get 10 pieces of wood pay for 8 or 9. You walk out feeling great.
     
  5. Brian Albrecht

    Brian Albrecht Classic Reflections

    Are some in the 39% ready to reconsider their vote yet? :D
     
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  6. 69 GS 400

    69 GS 400 Well-Known Member

     
  7. 69 GS 400

    69 GS 400 Well-Known Member

    I agree what you have said but I think there is more to this. Those loosers have no future. They will never own homes. In the past if a couple with minimum wage jobs combined could still afford a home. So why should the new generation give a f _ _ _ _ Not that I am a racist , I was married to an imigrant but I believe there needs to be limits put in place legal or illegal. I believe there is a hidden agenda to keep the immigration flow to continue to ensure a cheap labor force and keep wages low. It all comes down to profit. The government pretends to deal with illegal immigration and what you see is just for show. Put the army on the border and we would see a totally different scenario.
     
  8. woody1640

    woody1640 Well-Known Member

    So tell me something. If I'm working for you and I hustle up a side job, (not a current customer of yours) and I do it on my time, using my vehicle, and using my tools and all, how is that stealing from you???

    It's not!!

    It's called getting ahead in life lol!


    Keith
     
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  9. Jim Weise

    Jim Weise EFI/DIS 482

    Why would someone being a thief and admitting to it, change the way I feel about how convenient it is for me to get out of a store? The big stores factor in theft into their pricing already, so the argument that it costs us more won't fly here.

    The fact that someone can admit to their peers they are stealing, and use "I feel good about it" as a reasoning, is a sad commentary on the state of our society.

    JW
     
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  10. Brian Albrecht

    Brian Albrecht Classic Reflections

    Jim, the laugh emoji meant it was just a ribbing. No, I didn't actually expect anyone to change their vote.

    It does appear at least some look at self check out as an opportunity to steal.

    It is sad, and the problem is worsening. Home Depot calls theft "shrink", and it is growing so quickly they've publicly said it is the biggest threat to their margins.
     
  11. Quick Buick

    Quick Buick Arlington Wa

    You got me..... At first you got my goat..... Took me me a bit....your good...Now I'm On the floor laughing my a$$ off..
     
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  12. Max Damage

    Max Damage I'm working on it!

    It totally does cost you more, because the "factoring" in of "shrinkage" as they call it adds to the cost of goods. It's business, the customer pays for everything.
     
  13. HotRodRivi

    HotRodRivi Tomahawks sighted overseas

    In most retail business employee theft and admin theft, imbesselment, far excedes the walk in the door theft.
     
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  14. Briz

    Briz Founders Club Member

    Working as an unlicensed contractor, and all A/C related work is considered state regulated, therefore said side job would be illegal and a felony. Also any homeowner knowingly hiring a unlicensed contractor to perform any state regulated work is guilty of a felony. So it would be stealing from me or any other licensed contractor due to the fact above homeowner didnt call and hire any of us who have paid the dues, jumped through the hoops to carry the license as well as all the required ins. On top of that if anything you did on said job caused damage to the property directly or indirectly the homeowners insurance would not cover the repairs and or drop the policy. I see you doing it I'll drop a dime on ya in a second.
     
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  15. sean Buick 76

    sean Buick 76 Buick Nut

    I’m sick of your justification, of theft. We need to get back to cutting off thief’s hands.
     
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  16. 442w30

    442w30 Well-Known Member

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  17. LARRY70GS

    LARRY70GS a.k.a. "THE WIZARD" Staff Member

    Unbelievable, do you guys ever run out of things to bitch and moan about?:D:D I like to have the option of self check out. My supermarket is right around the corner from my apartment. I frequently need only one or two things. I can get out of there faster with the self check out. There are 2 stations and usually about 4 lines of customers with 20 items or so. I like the convenience. I've also used it at Costco, but there, you can only use a charge card. Still, if I am really pressed for time, it's a great option. In the future, they'll probably have retina scans, and just bill you.:) The future is coming whether you like it or not, you old farts:D:D

    And as far as stealing is concerned, remember, you are being watched, all the time, and I'm not talking about video, you know by who. I'm a big believer in Karma. It comes back around.;)
     
    Last edited: Sep 25, 2021
  18. Briz

    Briz Founders Club Member

    Just block him like many of have done already
     
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  19. 436'd Skylark

    436'd Skylark Sweet Fancy Moses!!!!!

    I should confess. I once stole the original copy of the declaration of independence. There was a treasure map on the back that led to a chest of coupons for shipping buick parts cheap through UPS. It was quite an ordeal. Someone could have written a crappy movie about it.
     
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  20. TexasT

    TexasT Texas, where are you from

    There was no tantrum nor cart load left in the "middle" of the store. They had check outs with humans when I arrived yet when I was ready to purchase none where open. I asked politely and was told they had self check out on every ocassion. I thanked them and walked away. Leaving the cart load right In front of them . I'm sure they knew what to do with it. I wasted my time filling it, the least that they could do is take my money with a smile and thank me for my business. They chose not to, not me. I don't run their show but I do run mine.
     
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