This is what happens when you try to “save” money by forcing people to use self-checkout.
I will more than happily use self checkouts over waiting for a cashier, we only have so much time in this life and i refuse to waste it standing in line.
Maybe, but technically the company is getting free labour out of you. if you are fine with your labour being free then continue on and enjoy
Ist shopping on the sales floor free labor. Back when you would hand your shopping list to a worker and the would give you all your stuff. (funny enough online pickup has kinda brought that back). Things change over time
As someone else mentioned doing online pickup forces them to hire staff. I don’t mind wandering because sometimes I’m not buying, I’m comparing etc. But eliminating 10 cashiers to have customers scan their own, only helps the corporations steal more money from workers.
As far as I’m concerned time is worth far more than money, money only has value because people give it value.
This. And the same goes for work in general. Doing work only has value because we attached money to it. People saying that scanning your own 10 items at the grocery store is labor and you should be paid accordingly… I’ll always respect peoples’ opinions and values, but something has to give if we feel as a society that that is worth compensation.
That is to say, the free labor for the corporations is not lost on me, I’m just thinking bigger picture. The budding socio-anarchist in me wants to burn the system to the ground and watch what rebuilds.
We were doomed from the start, damn those dank river valleys for establishing commerce and social hierarchy!
do the order online thing(for anything that’s not fresh product), so they have to hire people do the shopping, scan, and bag/box and you just go pick up. (it’s mostly free atm for pick ups just need to be above certain amount of dollar spent.) So you go, buy fresh product, then go pick up the bagged ones.
Good plan actually. However I noticed the store here has different prices online vs instore, they have a built in markup online.
