Am I the only one who gets to the self checkout and is compelled to finish as soon as humanly possible?

Imagine if there was a speedrun timer on them and a leaderboard

Would make boring everyday life a little more interesting

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I’m just annoyed that I’ve been using self checkout for thirty years, it was dead obvious how it worked the very first time I used it, but I still have to hear instructions like “place your APPLES in the bag”.

    Yes. I know.

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      6 months ago

      Place your item in the bagging area.

      Unexpected item in the bagging area.

      Place your item in the bagging area.

      Unexpected item in the bagging area.

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      6 months ago

      It’s loss prevention. People enter the wrong products that cost less, so it alerts the one cashier what was supposed to be weighed. Not super likely they’ll catch it watching 9 registers, but it increases the risk to the thief.

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      6 months ago

      They say the names of your purchases out loud in your country? Like,

      Please place your EXTRA SMALL CONDOMS in the bag

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        5 months ago

        Depends on the POS software used, but yeah. The ones near me mostly just says whatever the type of produce is since they don’t have bar codes.