Walmart Self Check Outs
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They don't have any self-checkouts in WalMart's around here, at least not the ones I have shopped in (which are 1-2 years old). Our Home Depots have them, though. I prefer them because I can move faster than most checkers can.
I would think the theft factor is pretty high with these self-checkout lanes, though. -
People who shop at Wal-mart aren't smart enough to figure out how to use the self checkers.
I have to go with Brock on this one. I do believe that the technology may be a bit beyond the common Walmart shopper....I've seen people FREEZE at those Self-Check outs--waiting for someone to come help--theft may also be a problem--don't know enough about that?
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I have to go with Brock on this one. I do believe that the technology may be a bit beyond the common Walmart shopper....I've seen people FREEZE at those Self-Check outs--waiting for someone to come help--theft may also be a problem--don't know enough about that?
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I refuse to use self checkouts if there's a cashier available, and pretty much I'll stop going to that store if all they do is self check. Why would I want to do something for the store that an employee used to do.
I get paid to do my job, and if a store wants me to be a cashier for myself, they need to pay me to do it.My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself. -
Why would I want to do something for the store that an employee used to do.
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Duh, maybe they can offer you, the customer, a little more competitive price? :rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Duh, maybe they can offer you, the customer, a little more competitive price? :rolleyes::rolleyes:
Chris
Really? Show me a store that dropped their prices even incrementally after they implemented self checkout.
Self check is nothing more than a way for a store to reduce employee costs. Go right ahead, and keep doing thier work for them.
I bet you'd be willing to stock shelves if they told you it would reduce prices.My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself. -
Possibly because Walmart doesn't like to see/pay employees not doing anything. Self check is a good thing for consumers but not such a good thing for employees. IMHO, the self check outs might eventually have put employees out of a job, so maybe it is a good thing they move away from them considering the still present economy problems? I've noticed this too and asked my self the same question and maybe it is for the best overall??? just sayin...Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »Walmart is remodeling all of their stores so I have to ask the obvious question of WHY are they getting rid of self check outs and replacing them with six 20 item or less lines?
Why not take those six employees and make them man a self check out station where they can now have twenty four operational check outs at once????
Im just saying.
I'm definitely with Rivrrat on this...DARE TO SOAR:
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You guys really just don't get market competition. I own a business. I need to keep the minimum employees employed to COMPETE with my competition.
I don't try to keep people employed just to "help" the economy. Times are VERY tough for guys like me and big co's. One of my smaller businesses (auto repair) employed 3 people. I had the choice of closing the place or laying one guy off. What would you do?
Big companies are facing the same challenge. Self check and save some dough and compete, or go **** up.
C'mon, what's not to understand here?
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You guys really just don't get market competition. I own a business. I need to keep the minimum employees employed to COMPETE with my competition.
I don't try to keep people employed just to "help" the economy. Times are VERY tough for guys like me and big co's. One of my smaller businesses (auto repair) employed 3 people. I had the choice of closing the place or laying one guy off. What would you do?
Big companies are facing the same challenge. Self check and save some dough and compete, or go **** up.
C'mon, what's not to understand here?
Chris
No I understand completely, like I said, it's all about reducing employee costs and at least you finally admitted exactly that.
Obviously if Wal-Mart is dumping self check, it isn't as competitive as you say. When the worlds biggest retailer dumps it, it's for a reason.
There's lots to understand here, and you aren't.
Think what I said... I won't go through a self check if it's at all possible. If it's driving customers away, why would you keep doing it? I also know several people that feel just like me. So say, if 10-20% if the buying public feels that way, how profitible is it?My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself. -
No I understand completely, like I said, it's all about reducing employee costs and at least you finally admitted exactly that.
Obviously if Wal-Mart is dumping self check, it isn't as competitive as you say. When the worlds biggest retailer dumps it, it's for a reason.
There's lots to understand here, and you aren't.
Think what I said... I won't go through a self check if it's at all possible. If it's driving customers away, why would you keep doing it? I also know several people that feel just like me. So say, if 10-20% if the buying public feels that way, how profitible is it?
OK, Rivvrat. I understand your point about not liking self check out. Then why not just use the human check out?
BTW, you're not the annoying guy in self check out ahead of me that just can't figure out what to do are you? :eek::D:)
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I use the self check out when the wife sends me to the store for those "female items"....:D
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OK, Rivvrat. I understand your point about not liking self check out. Then why not just use the human check out?
BTW, you're not the annoying guy in self check out ahead of me that just can't figure out what to do are you? :eek::D:)
Best regards, Chris
I do use the human checkout whenever possible, and it angers me when a store that has self check out doesn't have a human checkout.
One of the reasons I don't use the self checkout is because of that guy in front of you that can't figure out what to do. :rolleyes:
FWIW, if I have one or two items, and the lines for the human checkers are long, I'll break down and use the self check.....But I feel dirty afterwards.My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself. -
I refuse to use self checkouts, I'll stand in line.
Oh, I also refuse to shop at Walmart.
I think the reason Walmart is dumping them is because the cost of 1 machine probably accounts for several peoples salaries, at what they pay! -
self checkout is the nicest cashier at walmart
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ken brydson wrote: »I use the self check out when the wife sends me to the store for those "female items"....:D
Oh yeah... forgot about going to the grocery store for "embarrassing things". God, I love self-checkout, then.
Also, in regards to theft prevention... The area where you bag your goods is actually a scale. They know how much the item is supposed to weigh. If it doesn't jive, you get the "please wait for an attendant" message. Unfortunately, most attendants just dismiss it as a scale issue and force the transaction through.Ludicrous gibs! -
Bang on! Nothing better than the consumer to put the greedy in their place :cool: I rarely shop at Walmart, I despise that outfit but if I must, I will go through a cashier with actual labor serving me. Not enough buying from cheap manufacturing slavery country, not paying their people fairly, they now expect their CON-sumers to do the work for free and still pay the tab. Sorry wz2p7j, YOU don't get it if you really think Walmart will make you save some more money if you pack your own goods, YOU simply become their CHEAP LABOR :rolleyes:No I understand completely, like I said, it's all about reducing employee costs and at least you finally admitted exactly that.
Obviously if Wal-Mart is dumping self check, it isn't as competitive as you say. When the worlds biggest retailer dumps it, it's for a reason.
There's lots to understand here, and you aren't.
Think what I said... I won't go through a self check if it's at all possible. If it's driving customers away, why would you keep doing it? I also know several people that feel just like me. So say, if 10-20% if the buying public feels that way, how profitible is it?
BTW, I commend you as a business owner, you made the choice to shop at Walmart before you you laid off that poor mechanicOK, Rivvrat. I understand your point about not liking self check out. Then why not just use the human check out?
BTW, you're not the annoying guy in self check out ahead of me that just can't figure out what to do are you? :eek::D:)
Best regards, Chris Times have to be really tough when successfull business owners start shopping at Walmart 
BTW; take the joking-irony very lightly DARE TO SOAR:
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I think you don't get it.
First of all, the majority of the items Walmart sells can be purchased at any other similar store (Target, etc.).
Secondly, complaining about items from a "cheap manufacturing slavery country," is pretty funny when your stand in avoiding such products is taken to its logical conclusion. If you care as much about those people as you insinuate, you're actually obligated to not only buy the items they make, but more of them. Whatever paltry sum those "slaves," make is better than nothing at all. $5 here doesn't go anywhere near as far as $5 in a poorer country. You'd do well to stop looking at wage/pay through your own eyes.
Thirdly, slavery here was abolished a long time ago. If Walmart isn't paying their employees "fairly," they wouldn't have any employees (I'll grant you the ball is in Walmart's court in this economy, but I've never seen them short employees). Any individual who isn't happy with what Walmart offers them for their services is free to pursue a job with another company that pays them what they feel their services are worth. Most retail jobs don't pay a "living wage," because those positions can be filled by part-time workers and/or teenagers who are willing to work for less.
Fourth, Walmart is all about moving volume. Savings on traditional business expenses do get passed on to the consumer. The less they can sell something for than a competitor the more likely they are to sell more of those items to the general public.
Lastly, if you don't like the self-checkouts....don't use them. While Walmart's here don't have them, of the other stores here that do, they all have regular checkout lines to cater to their customers that want that kind of service. What's the problem?
Pretty amusing when people spend so much time railing on Walmart and then go shop at stores that essentially have the same business model.
