• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Being treated like criminals

    I’ve been followed around a store. Guess what store I’ve never bought from and won’t be back to.

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      16 hours ago

      i’m starting to worry we’ll never find out which store it is. the suspense is killing me

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      19 hours ago

      At self-checkout in a lot of stores employees stand behind me because I move fast. Apparently that means I’m stealing rather than I move faster than a snail when there’s a huge line of people waiting.

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        18 hours ago

        God the ones here don’t let you. The scales have to match so you can only pick up one item at a time, scan it, put it in the bag, and wait for the scales to read.

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          18 hours ago

          I stopped going to Kroger grocery stores mostly over price but honestly even if they lowered prices I wouldn’t go back specifically because of this feature. It’s more pleasant to shop at Walmart or Safeway as they don’t use this kind of system.

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            17 hours ago

            If a store has an intentionally terrible interface like this, or displays a video feed of you using it, I’m not touching self checkout. Going through a cashier’s line is fine, and walking away from my cart and never coming back is fine if that’s not an option.

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              10 hours ago

              I avoid the self-checkout at the local target because they display a video feed of you using it with a distressingly bright blinky light. It’s just sensory overload and I don’t need that in my life.

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            14 hours ago

            I don’t have any krogers just their rebrands. I only shop the ads (when it’s actually a good deal) and do drive through pick up.

            Self-checkout is the symptom. The disease is wandering around a store thst is ever changing and lack any industry standards.

            Having them pick the order is like the olden days when stores were merely a counter with a clerk who would go in back and grab the items on your list.

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              14 hours ago

              Please let us go back to that.

              Actually we had a 7-11 type store that took over a fast food place. They kept the drive-through and used that after like 6pm, taking a list and gathering everything while you were at the window. So awesome.