It means more waiting in lines, self check outs are better for those who aren't afraid of technology and helps to decompress the long line situation for those who don't prefer self check out. The real reason they did it is to curb theft.
I don't get it either like using more time then why not just put self checkout and more receipt checkers and make it into like a costco. they probably can't hire people as it is so you have like two lanes open lol
@@liferx4343 It means more jobs for unskilled and uneducated people and otherwise incapable of finding a job in their field people, which we have a glut of in this state.
Yes, she says it's sooo inconvenient to have to wait in line for a "couple of items". What she "forgets" to mention is that it's so much harder to steal those items when you're being checked out by an employee.
Nah, it's a major inconvenience to have wait behind people with shopping carts that are overflowing when you only have a few items! If they're going to eliminate self checkout, then they better open up an express lane!
@@BST-lm4po Sure, express lanes. They have that already. As long as "express" lane doesn't mean an open door that you just run out. Is that what you want? Sorry, you have to pay.
%100 is this a loss prevention decision. Self checkout has created so many loop holes with bulk purchases and door greeter positions brushed off. At this point I’m sure everyone has stolen from Walmart because of self checkout either intentionally or not.
And I'm sure WM has double-dinged me for items. Yet I could scan a whole basket faster than most of these Idiocratist shoppers with a few. I want self-checkout, just not self-harrassment. Shame the cost to live, and a few criminals, has ruined it for the rest of us.
Don't put ME in that category. I don't go shopping to steal groceries. Insead of going home with your stuff , you get caught and ger arrested. Bad decision .
I assure you theft is the nunber one reason for their decision to remove them. However, I'd rather use self checkout to avoid those rude ass cashiers. I swear they have a daily competition to see who can be the rudest.
You are making the company even more money by doing their work. Why on earth would you pay full price for things and then save them even more money? This does not make sense.
@@markgutierez9922.. 😮 amazing, we were told how much happier and friendly employees would be with $15 hr wage?? 😅 money has nothing to do with personality.
Self check out with no cashiers was asking for problems. Honestly id rather ring my own stuff. I was a cashier and i really like to put cold stuff with cold stuff and not put the milk in the same bag with my bread. And also my clothing in the same bag as my meat. Soo instead of complaining how a cashier does it i just do it myself. But honestly it still blows my mind how they dont even attempt to bag things more convenient. And most the cashiers were kind of rude where i am. So id rather avoid them anyways
I work at Circle K on Osuna I just quit today. I got hit in the face with an elbow by a homeless man and I was threatened by another woman that was homeless then at the end of the night I was threatened with a gun. Called the police they never showed up once I was at a Circle K store working alone and the cops never showed up they called me an hour and 15 minutes later telling me that did I still need them to show up. So if I didn't answer the phone they would have assumed that I didn't need them to but what if I was dead these cops are either lazy or overwhelmed but I'm disgusted by the fact that we have no police protection at any stores and that's why there's so many thieves instead of just putting it on the police department put it on the government for not properly enacting and placating to the homeless over the taxpayers I can't hold a job because homeless people can do whatever the f*** they want to.. people wonder why people don't work because we're not safe and we're not getting paid enough money to do this kind of job Valero on Osuna and Jefferson kitty corner from us has been closed for over a week because it's not save the homeless people are running amok in controlling the road in the street doing whatever the hell they want to and I am worth more than $14.50 an hour working for Circle K who doesn't care if I live or die
I knew it was a bad idea when they started it in my neighborhood. I never wanted computers checking me out. That puts people out of work and gives crimlnals the chance to put those card skimmers on the machines to steal your money. I'd rather stand in line where REAL people work.
It's always hilarious to see all these "I hate the self checkouts, get rid of them!" and the "I'm using self checkout to steal!" comments. People fail to realize, if corporate is taking them out, it means it's one step closer to converting that store to all OGP (online grocery pick-up). In short, you won't be allowed in the store. You'll have to order stuff online, and once you've paid for it, yourstuff will be brought to your car. Don't have a car? Don't have a debit card? Don't know how to use the app? Hmm, sorry, sucks to be you! Give a huge thanks to everybody whining about self checkouts!
Great! Now I have to wait in long lines behind people who look like they're shopping for the entire year! Then add another hour everytime someone wants a price check on an item because they thought it was supposed to be 5 cents cheaper!!
I live in Lexington Park Md. and the cashiers are very pleasant. Some people don't know how to be kind and smile . I do and the cashiers smile back. They even walk around and put my bags in the cart. Kindness goes both ways.
@@iamtheoffenderofall What's the difference between taking an item out of your cart and putting it on a conveyor belt, or running it across a scanner and putting it in a bag? At least you can pack the items the way that you want them!
@@BST-lm4po I'm not scanning items. I'm not bagging items. I'm not processing the cash to make change. The fact you have to ask this displays your lack of intelligence. Would you fix your own car after having taken it to a mechanic? Would you snake your own toilet after calling the plumber? What you are babbling about is exactly this.
I need to closely monitor my Wal-Mart purchases. I have encountered way too many scanning errors that would have cost me. So, keep your chit chat with the cashiers and let me check myself out. I promise not to steal the cookies. 😮
Finally. Sick of doing their damn jobs. You should get a discount if you do self checkout for doing their jobs. This state is still leading in the wrong direction as always
@@markgutierez9922 Thats why when I self checkout, I pay myself for doing their jobs. How? Somethings dont get scanned. I am not a charitable organization. My time is very important and precious to be working for free.
Self checkout will be back one day but it will be much more automated so there is no stealing from the store. I prefer self checkout personally but it will be interesting to see what technology they use to bring it back.
They put self-checkout at our local grocery store and with buy one get one free or buy two get two free and people mixing the wrong Brands coupons I mean it is absolute utter chaos and ridiculous. My daughter says she sees people just walk out with stuff switch prices on items put a $2 cookie price on a bouquet of roses. It's ridiculous already. We like people
I love self checkout. I get to put more than two items in one bag, not have to force small talk, and my IQ is high enough to use it in the first place without crying and begging for a discount.
@@privatename2648 12 comments on this channel with the same negative tone. Understandably I’m not going to take this one seriously when the M.O. here is to (poorly) insult people you don’t agree with. Kind of funny that I _barely_ address the issue with people being too undereducated to use a two-step machine, yet here you came as though someone blew the horn of your people🤷🏻♂️ Since you’re still here, it’s going to have to be better than the last one for me to maintain my interest here.
I have a very high IQ but I'm also Autistic which makes computers hard for me because the way they work changes with each update. IQ has nothing to do with working computers and in many cases people with a lower IQ are good at that kind of stuff.
Who wants to interact with a Walmart employee? I mean you go to get your groceries. I don’t wanna hear some story that never ends while I wait while my ice cream melt I’d rather check myself out.
I noticed the past two weeks Walmarts in the Salt Lake metro area closed their self checkouts making people wait in line for unfriendly employees to slowly do their jobs. A Walmart employee told me theft is too high despite having employees and actual city police keeping a close eye. I believe it has more to do with inflation, economic downturn, and operating cost management.
A recent MIT study put the average cost of a 4-station grocery check out station at $125,000 in install. Now Walmonster will remove them and and then what ? Dump them in the local Land-Fills ?
If they've lost so much money, where do they get the money to remodel their store. Seems to me that since businesses received billions in PPP loans a lot businesses have been remodeling.
Of course theft is a reason a big part of it probly 75%....i was just in a Walmart...it used to have 30+ checkout lanes now they have 8 and not a one of them had a cashier in attendance but they have 16+ self checkouts and i counted 8 people just standing around not really doing anything except talking or being totally absorbed into their phones ....the so-called greeter didnt even look up from her phone to acknowledge anybody coming in or going out
What they REALLY need to do is hire more checkout operator's! And keep all registers open during business hour's! This b.s. of only having one or two lanes open needs to stop! Management needs an ASS WHOOPING!
I believe self checkout should be for 10 items or less, period. Hard to steal when so few, easy for employee to watch, and easy to prove INTENT if do not scan. Heck, machines should have you input the number of items you have, 10, 9, 8, 7, etc FIRST, then scan, goodbye theft, goodbye extra 20% more the rest of us pay FOR THAT THEFT, and goodbye my extreme irritation over having to scan the packed $300 worth of groceries in my buggy!
Ppl need jobs, why do we need robot's thinking for us, all day long? Lol.. When using self checkout you still have to wait! if you encounter an error for the attendant to correct! That still takes time, while they are bouncing all over the place till they get to you! How is that quicker? Possibly, opening 3 lanes for Ppl that have 20 items or less they should try that for a period of time,. If it doesn't have the amount of Ppl for the fast checkout then go to 2 lanes. Same goes for the larger purchases & the other checkouts, add 5 lanes try that out, if not go to 4 lanes. Imo also, monitoring slow cashier's would be ideal, as well. Not all older register operator's are slow, I've seen some younger cashiers go slow, as if they are getting paid by the day. Ppl have other things in their daily agendas to attend too. If you want frozen food separately from other items why not just ask? Their are also, good older adults and young cashier's, don't get me wrong! just saying.
this isnt hard. its real simple. 10 items or less? self checkout. 11 items or more? normal checkout. or better yet, if you have a basket, self checkout, if you have a cart? normal checkout.
Personally, I will NEVER self checkout. Also, if I get to the front of the store and no cashiers are open forcing you to self-check I just leave my basket right there and walk out -- I will NEVER self checkout. Some stores converted 100% to self check and I simply wont go. But it seems wise to leave the option open for those weirdo's who do like to do the stores work for them. :) (my wife is one of those weirdo's she loves it. I always ask is she restocked the shelves as well before she left!)
@@Robohazrad Is adulting too hard for you and you just can't pull it off? Poor thing. :( Do you want to put on your big girl panties and try again - maybe act like an adult this time and have a normal conversation?
You realize that leaving a cart full of groceries will now have an associate that probably would have been on a register now delayed to put back all that stuff.
At my Walmart, the only one in the entire county, people aren't trained on how to do anything so I was ecstatic when we got self checkout machines. I no longer have some dumbass putting my food in a bag with motor oil. Yes, that really happened to me, I'm not making it up. As soon as I saw the kid do it I made him stop bagging my purchases, made the cashier pause in ringing anything else up until I'd gone through every bag I'd not watched due to talking to my husband. People don't care about poisoning others so if doing it myself to make sure my family doesn't get sick makes me a freak then so be it. At least I'm not driving prices up by leaving behind things the store is forced to write off because some fool walked away from a cart with refrigerator items just because he isn't happy about something others like. You owe everyone grocery money!
@@markgutierez9922 "that probably would have been on a register now delayed to put back" Catch -22 - if there had been on cashier duty I would not have left the cart. I WILL NOT SELF-CHECKOUT. I won't unload the trucks or restock the shelves either. If you don't have somone to check me out that is poor managment and poor managment is not my fault.
Waiting for a self-checkout is a hell lot more annoying if you're just buying a couple of items. The staffs are real fast at checkout you out when you're buying only a couple of items.
Newly refurbished Galesburg, Illinois Wal-Mart has OVER TWENTY FIVE "SELF CHECK-OUT LANES! JUST TWO EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE LANES! (Galesburg, Illinois does NOT HAVE THE HIGH CRIME OF "ALA-TURKEY" NEW MEXICO! 😂🙀😼
The problem is staff retention. If they can't keep employees, then waiting in long checkout lines because they have no cashier's also hurts their bottom line when people stop shopping there because of it.
Maybe she really has tentacles. lol. But, seriously, pretty much half the Walmart employees I come across in the store (wherever in the store they happen to be) are rude as h!! They hate their jobs and they take it out on the customers.@@Bdamazyn
Wish I just had a home, so I could order in, instead of having to stock up my company semi all the time. Sick of this whole bullshit. Hate having to deal with people, any which way - and being prejudged and accused, for *actually* buying a whole lot of crap.
Why can't they figure out a workable compromise for pete sake. How about a 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 ratio of cashiers to self check-out? It really doesn't have to be all or nothing!
It's not just here Walmart is doing it, but everywhere. Self checkouts costed the company a lot, and costed them a lot to maintain, many never even worked properly. So sure theft is somewhat a problem, but maintaining them, and having a full IT team is the main cause as it costs a lot.
It doesn’t cost that much to operate them (that’s the main purpose behind them) and there isn’t an “IT team” behind them. It’s a way to have less employees because the customers have doing it themselves.
Remind me again why the one on Zuni shut down.... Citizens should be allowed to deal with thieves however they see fit. Personally I see them as nuisance animals
I hate those self-checkouts anyways. I feel like I should get a 5% - 10% discount for ringing up my own groceries and bagging them. As an Autistic Person I struggle with employment and using computer systems that I don't know how they work when they change with every update. I expect things to work the same every time. When people ask me where I work I talk about things that I'm interested in. When they push the issue I tell them I work at Walmart as a cashier and sacker......when I go grocery shopping.
Nobody mentioned the bag nightmare how many bags would you like a bag push 1 for no push 2 for yes then produce you have to punch in a code then back to the bags the self check out has to be the lowest form of computers
Where the hell have you been shopping? I just used self checkout 2 days ago and it was just scan, put in bag, put back in cart, and at end shove in card. None of that you mentioned.
I hate standing in line especially behind a woman that has two cart falls of baby clothes. It makes me laugh that at Carlisle they put back a hundred checks stands, but in about a month they will only have about three open at a time. Besides they tried that already and it doesn't work because the employees don't show up especially on Friday and Saturdays. I've checked groceries for a living and it was the worst job I ever had. Employees say it's because shop lifting. I think it has nothing to do with that. Managers have to come up with an excuse for their bad managing skills. They have to blame someone else. Why do you need all those checks stands if you're only going to have 3 open at a time.
I never used self checkout because i believe they are useless and besides there is no incentive for using them. Perhaps if they offer a discount then I may be tempted to use them.😁😁😁
I'm 100% sure they did this due to the huge amounts of theft taking place however, at my local Walmart, the self check outs have staff standing around watching everyone check out their items. When I asked why are these people standing around watching instead of actually doing the job of checking out customers the response was that the company pays them to look at their phones while you check out to see if you're stealing!! WTF?? If you don't want everyone stealing put back the actual check out stands with live cashiers, that'll cut down on theft... duh!!!
