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Originally Posted by 19720  I fill up my stupid little basket with milk and cheese and bread, a canned good or three, some beef and chicken. I walk towards Checkout Lane and see nothing but row upon row of unlit cash register signs. I see some workers hanging out by the employee lounge in the front of the store... slack-jawed, playing grab-ass, thumbs literally in their asses. All in plain view of the customers. Clearly, no one is fearful of being fired here. |
Other than express-line quantities--mostly lunch meats, bread, and pure junk food--I do precious little grocery shopping. I do not use the self-checkout stations as a matter of principle. Although, I'd consider it if they gave me a 10% employee discount.
Each station represents a labor plus burden hourly savings of $14.21. This includes a clerk's hourly rate plus the company's contributions toward mandatory taxes and benefits.
So, we go into a particular store, push a cart through the isles, put the purchases into that cart, and go to a checkout station. Then, we have the PRIVILEGE of checking the stuff out OURSELVES, as well as bagging it ourselves.
People pay the same price either way: regular-checkout, express-checkout, or self-checkout. Many times the wait is just as long in self-checkout as it is in the other checkouts.
I find nothing inherently fun about checking myself out of a grocery store. This is especially true when the store saves money and I save nothing.
As I said, I only use the express checkout stations. If none are open when I get to check out point, I take what I have to the service desk and inform them that I've decided not to buy the stuff because they have no express lines open.
I've only had to do it twice, both times at a Super Fresh. They seem to be notorious for this. If more people would do it, they'd open more lines. If they'd give the self-checkers an extra discount for doing it, more people would use them.
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Originally Posted by 19720 Finally a lit sign, but Woman with Six Bastard Kids has a pile of items as big as a Volkswagen on the conveyor belt and a fistful of coupons. |
Maybe I'm missing something here. You capitalized "Six Bastard Kids" in the middle of a sentence. Is this a movie title or something or perhaps a tongue-in-cheek?
I'm not criticizing it from a grammatical point; I'm just curious. How do you know that these were "Bastard Kids"? It's easy enough to have figured out that they were kids. But the "Bastard" part?
As for the woman having a fistful of coupons, with six kids, it's a survival necessity in many instances.
Regards,
Joe Walther
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