• @johannesvanderwhales
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    Remember that multibillion dollar corporations are pushing you to self checkout because they are too cheap to pay someone minimum wage to work a register. The boomers are right.

    • @Allonzee
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      Alternatively, self-checkout is a great way to shoplift from big corporations destroying civilization and the habitability of the planet.

      Doo Doo Doo… Doo! 🌠

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        56 days ago

        I refuse to voluntarily pay for bags. How many bags did I use? Zero, motherfucker!

        • @[email protected]
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          46 days ago

          You wear shoes to go grocery shopping, right? Do this once, then keep the bags next to your shoes so you remember to reuse them maybe a half dozen times.

          Boom now you’re saving the environment and money.

    • @Smoogs
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      some people don’t want it wait for a million years for the person in front of them with 600 items to get through.

      Some solutions are not just about solving one thing or a personal attack.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 days ago

        Tell that to people that could have had jobs as a cashier that those machines have taken away.

        May the hammer of Enoch do it’s work.

        • @[email protected]
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          Doing less work has been the primary motivating factor behind basically all of human progress. The problem is that the savings is lining shareholder pockets instead of reducing employee workload.

        • @Demdaru
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          I will, no problem. Luddites have no place today, thank you.

          Heck, cashiers are still wprking where I live. One of them just gets assigned to 6 or 8 self checkouts instead of normal register.

              • @[email protected]
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                25 days ago

                Just learn to code right bro. You dumb ass libs always assume everyone is as skilled as you and every job you don’t want to do is lesser. Some people like being cashiers.

                Get back at me when you learn some labor theory and intersectionalize more.

                • @[email protected]
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                  -25 days ago

                  Just learn to code right bro

                  Lol, no, don’t put words in my mouth, dickhead

                  You dumb ass libs

                  Swing and a miss

                  assume everyone is as skilled as you

                  Even BIGGER miss. I’m an asshole and assume most people are far less skilled than me, and am regularly proven right

                  and every job you don’t want to do is lesser

                  Your words, not mine, I don’t consider cashier’s to be lesser to me in any way unless they, as an individual, give me reason to

                  Some people like being cashiers

                  Yeah, you’ll notice you said “some” and not “most”, so what’s your point, exactly?

                  Get back at me when you learn some labor theory and intersectionalize more.

                  Get back at me when you learn how to discuss what was said and not prop up a shitty strawman

              • @[email protected]
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                05 days ago

                There is no automation getting rid of a shit job. The customers now have the privilege to do that job for themselves.

                • @[email protected]
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                  05 days ago

                  Pick one: it’s losing people their jobs, or it’s not

                  Quite prefer doing it myself, none of my local stores have any of the issues listed elsewhere on the thread. Must suck for them but that’s not a reason to not progress

      • @bitchkat
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        16 days ago

        That is definitely one of the reasons to skip self checkout.

      • @johannesvanderwhales
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        Like you’re not waiting for the person in front of you in self-checkout to fumble their way through scanning those items? Who do you think is faster at it, the boomer in front of you in line or someone who does it all day? You’re just buying into the bullshit narrative you’re being fed.

        • @samus12345
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          76 days ago

          Self-checkout has almost always been faster for me. No bullshit narrative, just actual experience.

            • @samus12345
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              26 days ago

              Don’t remember. All I know is that the average time I’ve spent waiting for when doing self-check is shorter than the average time waiting when not.

              • @[email protected]
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                26 days ago

                Next time your feeling social or not it a rush have someone check you out. Hell you can even do it if there’s a cute bean working.

    • @[email protected]
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      We should strive to automate as many jobs as possible. Not try to keep tedious jobs from disappearing.

      Those multibillion dollar corporations will have to keep adapting to the world, one way or another. They should be able to handle an automated world, Or we might need to bring out the torches and pitchforks.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 days ago

      That’s one of The reasons I don’t use the self checkout. Also since I want to pay with cash and can’t do that at the self checkout.

    • @bitchkat
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      16 days ago

      And that is why I stopped using them. Actually, I just order online for most things and curbside pickup.

      • Pandantic [they/them]
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        Just wait until bots or drones just deliver it to our doorstep. I will never need to see another human again!

        Edit: /s, to be clear. I want to see how many people actually agree/disagree.

        • @bitchkat
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          25 days ago

          People can deliver to our door without us having to interact.