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Originally Posted by commodorenutt
If I have to go into any shop with a DIY checkout (even Bunnings have brought them in now) I refuse to use them on principle.
Their profit margins are already high enough, and they're trying to cut more staff by making us do that work for them??
I deliberately go to a human checkout, in the vain hope that many others will do the same, and keep that person in a job.
If they were serious about their promotion of these DIY checkouts as "making it so easy" for shoppers, then they should be taking $5 off every transaction done on one of them, to pay us for doing their work!
There's only ever one winner when it comes to the supermarket duopoly.
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I tend to look at DIY checkouts another way, im always in a hurry and waiting inline for some pleb to boop............booop.............boop at glacial speed, I look for the path of least resistance. If im grabbing half a dozen items im in and out in a flash, my only qualification for DIY checkouts (and I work in some supermarkets as a rep) is that they MUST NOT REPLACE a genuine human interaction with the organisation. In my eyes the staff member overseeing them MUST make eye contact and offer a greeting and goodbye.
Oh, and sign in to a supermarket as a rep and walk out the back and see how many staff work there who aren't on checkouts. DIY checkouts aren't gonna destroy youth employment like people make out it will.