Looks like you need to judge your lines, customers and checkout personnel better.

Exactly. If you and I each start checking out say 50 items at the same time and the cashier is doing mine and you’re at the kiosk, I’ll be home munching on my fatty snacks I just bought before your receipt prints.

I was recently in Amsterdam and was shocked that every single street car has a little “reception desk” inside of it that’s fully staffed by one or two people selling tickets and giving advice. While there are some machines at the stations, they definitely look for opportunities to keep people working (and presumably…

You’re completely missing the point here. They increase shareholder value. That’s all that matters.

A lot of people here are saying self-checkout is faster. It’s not. It only seems that way because the lines are usually shorter and people only have a few items per order, so your overall wait is less. At best you’re only as fast as a cashier, and only up to a point. Try self-checking a whole cartload of groceries,…

Self-checkout means someone lost their job.  Additionally, machines pay ZERO taxes.  They don’t contribute to social security, medicare or the general tax fund that is required when maintaining a civilization.

At the self check you can flip it around and steal like crazy. Want expensive Brussels sprouts? Key in the far cheaper cabbage code from the shelf you pulled it. Same with bulk nuts- pistachios are now peanuts. Oops! The clerks don’t care, let the robots and the bosses get hoodwinked by the sly shopper. 

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Self check-out is objectively slower than normal registers. The employees can scan things much, much faster than the machine that insists you bag every item immediately after scanning it. Like, in the time it takes basically everyone to do a couple items, the employees could be entirely finished. The only reason self…

I don’t like automated checkouts in general, but putting them in at home depot was a hole different level of stupid. First, they sell a bunch of products that are too big to fit in the bagging area, meaning someone has to come over and put in a code so you don’t have to put it on the weight area. Then, they sell a…

The biggest pain with self checkout is the scanning and bagging of every individual item. The cashiers don’t do that. They scan everything and then bag, or they scan and someone else bags.

Buying lightweight PVC fittings in a hurry is the worst now at home depot. Nobody at the registers, the line at customer service is out the door, but the dang self checkouts insist you put nothing into the bagging area. WORST.

There’s a mode called the Toy-Con Garage where you can program your own inputs and outputs for the different joy-con features (rumble, motion, etc.) and essentially build whatever you like. That’s the best part, and that’s where the engineering/programming comes in.

Watt is going through this guy’s head? This sort of thing really gets me amped up.

I suspect any regulation to rectify this behavior would be met with resistance.

As I've posted before, and will post until my thumbs fall off: WHY IS THIS ALLOWED TO BE A THING?!? They regulate what kind of freaking TAILLIGHTS can be on a car but "autopilot" is ok? I predict that soon the most desirable cars will be analog commuters from the 90's. 

1st Gear: Yes, car makers are making too many cars, but not just that, they are making too many of the same car.

By your logic, all games sound be the cost of the physical cartridge/disc and all games on PC should be free since only hardware is worth money to you. 

You must be a youngster. They’ve always been about gimmicks! ROB, the Power Glove, Super Scope, SNES mouse and keyboard, Donkey Kongas, the entire existence of the Virtual Boy and Nintendo Wii...

“Parents today are so stupid! Instead of getting kids a toy or playset, they give them these tiny little blocks that probably cost pennies and make them build it themselves!  How is this Lego thing going to last?!?!”