I hate how self-checkout treats me like a child and speaks and prompts me a zillion times for things I don’t want. How many bags do you want to buy? None, because I have mine like 90% of people, geez. How about a donation? Unexpected item in bagging area. TAKE YOUR RECEIPT. Nooooo
And it even SPEAKS. LOUDLY. It burns through ALL my patience within seconds.
If it just let me scan my stuff having me tap on a touchscreen, and then just let me stay the payment machine in a single touch, and it were silent … I might tolerate it. Otherwise, get back, demon.
And I guess they really care about cost too, because if they wanted it as easy as possible, it would have a treadmill and a box with a 360° barcode scanner or something and the person could be spared from the whole bagging area thing.
But yeah, that simplification and accessibility ends up being what alienates me because of how significant it is. Hopefully there are enough of us that they’ll keep some cashiers around.
Decathlon is a step back from that. They have Rfid tags but you have to put them in the box that scans them. They have a barcode scanner for items that are too big for the box.
I hate how self-checkout treats me like a child and speaks and prompts me a zillion times for things I don’t want. How many bags do you want to buy? None, because I have mine like 90% of people, geez. How about a donation? Unexpected item in bagging area. TAKE YOUR RECEIPT. Nooooo
And it even SPEAKS. LOUDLY. It burns through ALL my patience within seconds.
If it just let me scan my stuff having me tap on a touchscreen, and then just let me stay the payment machine in a single touch, and it were silent … I might tolerate it. Otherwise, get back, demon.
They have to do this because the average shopper has negative IQ. These machines need to be as simple to use as possible.
They done failed.
And I guess they really care about cost too, because if they wanted it as easy as possible, it would have a treadmill and a box with a 360° barcode scanner or something and the person could be spared from the whole bagging area thing.
But yeah, that simplification and accessibility ends up being what alienates me because of how significant it is. Hopefully there are enough of us that they’ll keep some cashiers around.
A store near me has RFID tags on all products, and simply approaching the self-checkout machine is enough to have all products detected.
Decathlon is a step back from that. They have Rfid tags but you have to put them in the box that scans them. They have a barcode scanner for items that are too big for the box.
I was thinking of Decathlon. You’re right, items must be placed in the box.
On one hand, that’s handy.
On the other hand, that’s so much ewaste…
I am a divine being, you are an object. You have no right to speak in my holy tongue.