Comments on: A Faster Shopping Experience http://www.ronalfy.com/a-faster-shopping-experience/ Life is a blog. I wanna write it. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://www.ronalfy.com/a-faster-shopping-experience/#comment-53502 Anonymous Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:38:18 +0000 http://ronalfy.com/2007/01/18/a-faster-shopping-experience/#comment-53502 I have managers that want me to run 6 u-scans and a register as soon as I come in, even when I'm not by myself and there many other cashiers available. Store policy typically has the manager out front, often times doing nothing while forcing the cashier to deal with all that nonsense. Sadly, many stores will treat their midnight closing cashiers like shit. Just my experience though. Oh and I can state through personal experience that enough theft occurs on those U-scans (sometimes unintentional theft, morons just forgetting to pay) to pay for enough cashiers. Not much of a profit is actually made on those due to the fact that they require a great deal of maintenance costs, and the fact that theft occurs regularly. Although unemployment is low in my town, the way stores these days treat their cashiers and force their cashiers to treat their customers is disgusting. If a cashier is not running both a register and a u-scan, they will actually threaten cashiers with their jobs if they do not grab customers from regular registers and try to get them to use the U-scans. And they'll do it even if only one register in the U-scan is open and the rest are full. They even try to coerce me into grabbing large orders that are not supposed to be going through a U-scan. The store knows it takes customers with large orders longer to go through the U-Scan, but they coerce the cashier into pulling them anyways. For obvious reasons, I'm posting this anonymously. I have managers that want me to run 6 u-scans and a register as soon as I come in, even when I’m not by myself and there many other cashiers available. Store policy typically has the manager out front, often times doing nothing while forcing the cashier to deal with all that nonsense.

Sadly, many stores will treat their midnight closing cashiers like shit.

Just my experience though.

Oh and I can state through personal experience that enough theft occurs on those U-scans (sometimes unintentional theft, morons just forgetting to pay) to pay for enough cashiers. Not much of a profit is actually made on those due to the fact that they require a great deal of maintenance costs, and the fact that theft occurs regularly.

Although unemployment is low in my town, the way stores these days treat their cashiers and force their cashiers to treat their customers is disgusting.

If a cashier is not running both a register and a u-scan, they will actually threaten cashiers with their jobs if they do not grab customers from regular registers and try to get them to use the U-scans. And they’ll do it even if only one register in the U-scan is open and the rest are full. They even try to coerce me into grabbing large orders that are not supposed to be going through a U-scan. The store knows it takes customers with large orders longer to go through the U-Scan, but they coerce the cashier into pulling them anyways.

For obvious reasons, I’m posting this anonymously.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.ronalfy.com/a-faster-shopping-experience/#comment-31919 Nathan Sun, 18 May 2008 23:31:08 +0000 http://ronalfy.com/2007/01/18/a-faster-shopping-experience/#comment-31919 i work the self check out lane at my local Kroger, and the policy is that if someone needs a regular register ie a large load the attendant is supossed to take them to a regular register while maintaing an eye our new wireless ateendant station. I have customers who are stupid enough that they don't see the last cashier of the night is almost always open till midnight and they come through wi uscan with a large order its not always our fault. And i for one am no moron and run that piece of shit quite well i work the self check out lane at my local Kroger, and the policy is that if someone needs a regular register ie a large load the attendant is supossed to take them to a regular register while maintaing an eye our new wireless ateendant station. I have customers who are stupid enough that they don’t see the last cashier of the night is almost always open till midnight and they come through wi uscan with a large order its not always our fault. And i for one am no moron and run that piece of shit quite well

]]> By: inspirationbit http://www.ronalfy.com/a-faster-shopping-experience/#comment-3394 inspirationbit Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:41:04 +0000 http://ronalfy.com/2007/01/18/a-faster-shopping-experience/#comment-3394 I've never even been to a grocery store with a self-checkout lane. I guess, I'm a lucky Canadian :-) I've never even been to a grocery store with a self-checkout lane. I guess, I'm a lucky Canadian :-)

]]> By: cetroyer http://www.ronalfy.com/a-faster-shopping-experience/#comment-682 cetroyer Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:19:56 +0000 http://ronalfy.com/2007/01/18/a-faster-shopping-experience/#comment-682 I think stores tend to justify self-checkout through convenience and through cutting costs. I have a problem with the latter item. A store covers its costs through what it charges on various items. The cost of cashiers and baggers is included in what I buy. If I'm paying for cashiers and baggers, you'd better believe that I am going to use that service. cetroyer I think stores tend to justify self-checkout through convenience and through cutting costs. I have a problem with the latter item. A store covers its costs through what it charges on various items. The cost of cashiers and baggers is included in what I buy. If I'm paying for cashiers and baggers, you'd better believe that I am going to use that service.

cetroyer

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