On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:34:59 +0000, lid
(Calvin Henry-Cotnam) wrote:

Edwin Pawlowski ) said...

"Calvin Henry-Cotnam" wrote in message

The time I save is worth more than any discount that they can offer!

If you save time. I tried them twice, two different stores because I
thought I'd save time. In both cases, an item would not scan properly and I
ended up having the clerk watching them fix things up. PITA. Our local K
Mart took them out after 3 months.

My peeve with the self serve checkouts are the people who think there is
one line per station. Most stores that I have seen have them in pairs or
sometimes fours and I will queue up for the group with the intent of using
the next one available, and I let anyone coming after me that is my
intent when it is clear they seem to be scoping out one in particular to
wait for.

One thing that is a Home Depot peeve with these checkouts: never use them
if you have any "bulk" items like screws/fasteners that you bag yourself
and write down the sku number.

Or items that may contain a "security device".

These have to be entered by the clerk, and
slows down the process making it slower than using a regular checkout.

Grocery stores I have seen with self-serve checkouts let you do this
yourself, but as one HD associate put it, "they don't have contractors
entering the code for galvanized when they are purchasing stainless".

The last time I uses a self-checkout, it was for some LED holiday
lights. It worked OK THAT time.

I go to Wal-Mart a lot (there's a store less than a mile from my
house). I usually avoid the self-checkout. There's too many problems
like those "criminal" devices (the ones they always call "inventory
control", but still make it sound like you're being accused of
something) and various unscannable items.
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