Walmart is not going to hire more staff to make up for the removal of self checkout. Customers will just have to wait in the lines longer as usual. The Walmart near me has 20 checkout lanes, but there is never more than 3 open at a time even during the busiest times.
When they put self check out kiosks, they said it was just a convenient "option" and that you were still free to go to the cashier lane. Then when the kiosks weren't being used enough, they started getting rid of cashiers, leaving one or two cashiers and a loooong line in them to force you to go to the self check out area. Now that they see they have theft problems with people abusing the system, they now remove it to go back to cashiers. It was NEVER about convenience for the customer and was ALWAYS about increasing profits by replacing cashiers.
How else do you expect companies to gain more money by hiring human cashers. Like seriously, in the long run the stores that do that will have to be closed down due to lack of income.
It is not the tax payers job to protect the goods at Walmart. Stores got lazy stopped having cashiers, guards replaced with greeters that could not stop a thief if they wanted to.
@@zed4229Unfortunately you must be too young to remember a time when stores in this part of the world did not require armed guards and it was just the natural order of things that anyone who worked would earn a living wage? ....And there was affordable housing and a homeless person was a rare sight.... Believe it or not Walmart has a corporate policy of greeters to NOT be intimidating and for the store staff to never get in any altercation with criminals and other shoplifters!...
@@stevebell4906 Yeah, when beggars where something you heard about in poor countries or in the past, not something routinely encountered at freeway exits and grocery stores.
@WebDesignSocal... Whatever it is, it's a good idea Now the government needs to begin arresting and prosecuting people by giving criminals real jail time. I would never shop at any store that is only self checkout.
This was the Walton's poor attempt to try to automate the cashier jobs. As if The Waltons are not making enough profit already, this move motivated by greed is a total flop
Which is cheaper having cashiers or self checkouts that is losing money to stolen goods.. Is the money lost from thieves is less then paying cashiers..? Then let it be..
If you think Walmart's issues are bad between self check-out & actual cashier lines. Take a look at the debacle going on with the Amazon brick & mortar stores. There's a little bit of everything in Amazon's story. It's quite interesting, but funny, yet very deceitful & a complete lie to their so-called technology in AI. They claimed that their AI system were running the stores all by themselves. There are NO check-out lines at all in Amazon stores for customers to check out anything they want or need to purchase. You just put the things you wanna buy in the shopping cart & their AI customer service does the rest. All you do is walk straight out the door. But do they... 🤔 I'll leave the rest for you to get a good laugh. 😂😜🤣 +Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend+ 🤘😎🤘
Used to live in Newburgh Heights. I worked afternoons and would stop after work and see people lined up with overflowing grocery carts. I was like, are you in line? And they were like, nah, just waiting for our EBT cards to be refilled at 12:01 AM. I saw it, you see it, but they lie about it.
Depending on the store it is as little as a 4 self-checkout machines to 1 paid checkout assistant to as much as a 10 machine to 1 paid employee ratio, so it is still worth it in the store's eyes in some cases to have 1 paid assistant to oversee multiple self-checkout machines.
Never should started self checkout. The prices are skyrocketing and there's no customer service anywhere. I don't shop at Wal-Mart so it doesn't matter to me but they should have known better.
In my honest opinion, Wal-Mart's self-checkouts need to be gotten rid of in ALL of the states of the USA. I miss the good old days back when all Wal-Marts had cashiers who would checkout items FOR YOU.
The walmart that's closest to me is a ghetto walmart. I say ghetto because there are a lot of items they have locked up because the thieves will steal them. I can drive about another 8 miles to a much better walmart where the same items are not locked away. Location, location, location.
Same here! The one closest to me has had a murder and a rape in the parking lot over the past few years and everything is locked up. I drive 10 minutes to Amish country and it’s a completely different world. People are polite, nonviolent, and nothing is locked away. Damn these ghetto people!
I hated self check out when it started and I hate it now. My only problem is, Walmart better hire enough cashiers so one doesn't have to wait in line for 1/2 an hour.
I prefer self checkout. It's faster and I don't need to talk to the cashier. Bagging my items makes sure that nothing gets broken or smashed. People complaining about self checkout are pathetic. America needs more kiosks and self checkouts.
Walmart is asking you to bag your own groceries (use to have baggers) and then has an employee look over your shoulder to see if your not stealing something....no thanks
I hope this is a trend. I hate seeing 3 or 4 employees hanging around self checkout when there are registers closed, then get treated like a criminal when leaving the store.
If they would address the high prices of food (price- gouging) charged by these corporations that would change but the horse is out of the stable now 😒 I blame the Price Gouging Corporations for their Sinkage and I no longer shop their along with Target and other stores 😮
I worked at CVS, we were forced. They kept track. I was told my register would be taken away if I didn't force more people to use self check out. That pissed me off and I didn't care, I took care of my customers.
@traybern Before you think yourself clever and me dumb, re-read to first comment. There is no correlation with what you just said. It's about "who" pushed people to self -checkout. Workers and employees never did, it was the corporate owners.
Capitalisms in a nut shell. As someone who installs these self-checkouts, this is a great idea. While its less work for me, Walmart now has to start hiring more staff to get the lines going. Is it a bad thing for the customers to wait, yes! This is the perfect way to combat thief and reduce lawsuits for wrongful accusations of thief as well.
"Walmart in Steelyard Commons removing all self-checkouts," or in other words, "Walmart in Steelyard Commons restoring responsibility to its employees."
Actually there is no responsibility on the employee, if you catch someone steeling something you are not to approach or question the person, you are just to report it and move along.
I'll go one step further, put the responsibility on management to plan how to make the checkout process better, more workforce and more (X) items or less checkouts.
I hope all retail companies remove self checkouts. Theft is ramped using self checkouts. We never had them when I was a child and we survived! Get Rid Of Them👍👍👍 Plus removing them creates more jobs for those who have to actually check out customers👍👍
When consequences for thieving are too lenient, it only results in more thieving. Also, when you have a Country controlled by Itiot politicians who create high inflation, it magnifies the problem.
If you live in the area, one can probably come to the conclusion that it's mostly due to theft, if these problems persist in some areas, stores will just start or continue to leave. Most of the people that are stealing are not doing it out of necessity either.
@@kristenmarie9248 I'm surprised they're been dressing rooms available for customers for year's now, much less having one at all today, really. Granted petty theft in stores is worse today than it was years ago but it's really nothing new. There was a lot of shady shlt going on even back in the 70's/80's when I was in HS. Young punk kid's were hustling Levi's, leather jackets, albums, etc... all the time in school. So much so, I'd say they're partially responsible that places like Merry-Go-Round & J P Snodgrass went out of business as quick as they did back in the day. I wasn't down with stealing stuff, not even a penny. But I'm not gonna lie, I did buy a few pairs of those brand new Levi 501's & bell-bottoms for a couple bucks from those kids. Sorry, but I couldn't pass up a deal like that. I'm just saying... 🤔 Kid's would go into J P Snodgrass wearing a pair of their dad's jeans & walk into the dressing room with 7 or 8 pairs of Levi's in their hands. Then put on 3 or 4 pairs of brand new Levi's underneath the clothes they came in with & walk out the door. And most of the girls who worked @Merry-Go-Round were always dressed to the nine's. Those girls stole so many clothes from that store there's still probably a bunch of shlt in their closets they never even worn yet one time. Just saying & keeping it a buck! +Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend+ 🤘😜🤘
Wal-Mart is not allowed to use the word theft or they might be fined millions of dollars or sued by groups that support shoplifting as reparations for forced labor 150 years ago .
@@mlong9475 when Sam Walton started his marketing ploy was no more than Three in a line & another checkout will open. That was before my time, just read about it. Now living in a Major tourist destination & they never have enough cashiers. They realize you will wait in line & we do/ have. So glad for grocery pick up! Been doing it for over four years. Shopping this way has created jobs & sustains them.
I prefer self checkout, for one I don't have a stranger feeling up on my food, and 2, there's no lines, nobody waiting 3 inches from your back, breathing down your kneck.. and 3 it's literally 15 times faster to check out and bag all of your own stuff than it is to wait in line and have some worker do it. Thief's always gotta ruin it for the rest of us. Smdh.
The only place I've ever encountered where one HAD to use them was back when our Kroger's were still open 24/7 and that is all they had open on the 3rd shift (which was fine with me). Walmart was exactly the opposite when they were 24/7; cashier checkout only during the 3rd shift.
There have been some supermarkets and drug stores that eliminated cashiers after a certain time at night. Every time I filled my cart with merchandise only to find that self-checkout was the only way to pay for my items, I left my cart and walked out of the store empty-handed.
I made the out-of-towner mistake of going there when I was working in Cleveland. I had never seen anything like it- it looked like a hurricane had swept through- stuff just pulled off the shelves and left. The local guys said I was lucky I wasn’t shot/carjacked.
I refuse to use self checkout anywhere. The way I see it, I don't work for the retailer. The jobs lost don't translate to savings for the shopper, just profit for the share holder.
They should keep a couple self-checkouts so those with a few items can get through quickly. They are meant for people with a small number of items, not for full carts.
That's what most of the stores around my area do (southern Ca), it's weird hearing others don't do the same. As much as it irritates me that I can't use the self-checkouts if I have too many items, I'm glad there's that rule. We've all been behind that person who seems like it's their first rodeo (first time using the self-checkout) and they managed to pick up every single item imaginable that didn't have a barcode to scan. A mixture of both self and manned checkouts would be ideal, but sadly, this world is far from perfect.
My mom worked at a McDonald’s inside of Walmart 20 years ago and she said that every register at most times of the day and night had all open registers, if they can keep all the registers open then having no self checkouts won’t really be a problem with long lines if it’s some crazy holiday weekend
Greedy corporations so blinded by their greed that they couldn't have predicted that self checkout was never going to work. I knew years ago it wouldn't last. They should be firing the people who thought it was a good idea.
I've never used a self checkout. Until a store gives me a paycheck, they can ring up their stuff if they want me to pay for it. I am not doing someone else's job for them.
Sad. The city should be doing something about that problem. People don't just become like that overnight and that problem doesn't develop overnight. It has to be ignored for a long time.
Thank God cause I hate self check out. I don’t go into a store to do their job. I don’t get paid by Walmart to scan my own items. That’s why we have cashiers and it’s very impersonal. The machine doesn’t talk to you and doesn’t say hi like a cashier does, so glad that somebody is starting to remove them..
@sorcierx2604 if you are scared that an extra 10 mins is going to put you in harms why then you should never had been there in the first place when was the last time you was at a fully staffed checkout store and had long lines .....that lady just talking to talk
😂 That’s right. They’re to blame for many of society’s ills. Plus a wig a day means crime’s here to stay and the longer the nails means more shoplifting than sales.
A few Walmarts in the Minneapolis area close because of theft. We have a HY VEE store in a challenge area. They removed the Self Checkout, due to Theft. An Aldi store that was not that old, was closed in another Challenge area Due to Theft also.
They either make difficult changes like these or they close the store. It sounds to me like that's what it's coming to. I'm surprised that store is still open tbh.
Self checkout was a way for stores to cut jobs. With the amount of money Wal Mart makes they can afford to hire more staff and pay them a living wage. Better yet, the workers should unionize.
@@debrahelicke7204 But did walmart and the other companies push the labor cost savings they got when they first pushed out self-check outs to you? Did they reduce prices when they dumped millions in overhead. No, they pushed it into profit. But them losses due to scan skipping or mis scanned things those costs they pushed to higher prices. Self-Check Out is a scam.
The more cashiers they hire then the fewer hours they’ll get because labor will have to be divided among the cashiers. A lot of times only 2-3 regular checkouts are open. And who wants to wait in line for 1 or 2 items when you have an alternate, the self checkout.
Shouldn't have had it in the first place !! Arrogant ass. Are you a business owner trying to improve customer experience. Self check out is a great alternative. Use it all the time. Some smug people like you think you are too good for Walmart. No one cares if you shop there. Not the point of the story
I love it! We pay for bags. Pay to bag everything and check out our own goods and they save on labor. How many jobs were cut because of those machines? I refuse to use them. But I agree with everyone's right to choose. If you prefer it then you go to them. I just want a bit of service when im spending my money. I now use the app and pick up all my stuff. I have them do my shopping and loading. I never over spend on things that might have caught my eye while wondering through the isles anymore. No more spending on clothing i really didn't need. Or shoes or anything else. I am able to totally stick to my budget every time and i dont step foot in the store.
I shop at Aldi which has self checkout lines and have gone to registers that still have the previous customer items listed and not paid. The customer just walked out after scanning and bagging their groceries. 🤦♀️
Good. Too much theft happening and too many people who make innocent mistakes getting charged when they make a mistake because Walmart is too cheap to hire checkout employees.
Pretty soon... there will not be stores to walk around and shop for items as we know it. It will all be a huge warehouses with a front pick up area where you can go online, choose what you want, pay for it in advance, then someone will bring up your order to the front... or to the car in the parking lot.
I despise self check out with every fibre in my body. Having cahiers is easy, secure, safe, commercially beneficial and generally a pleasant experience. Where there are self check outs there are fewer customers and fewer goods.
I would like to keep self checkout as an option. But clearly there are a lot of issues with it so I get why they are cutting back. I just find it funny that it was supposed to be the answer to their labor cost issue and now they're having to bring back people. It makes me wonder how all these other projects they're implementing to get rid of having to pay employees will work out for them. They'll be whining in about 5 years that that they can't make any money because people have found ways to working around all their AI to scam them out of money.
@@Liz-wz8dh Meh, big stores don't have labor cost issues, at least not when it comes to retail employees: they get paid chump change. They only pushed this because they wanted to squeeze every penny of profit.
Who remembers Walmart before they had self-checkout so much stuff was getting stolen and it has parking spots for police officers. A lot of it came from employees but some customers too.
Fun fact: Walmart is getting rid of all self checkouts everywhere thanks to your usual suspects. The lines are bad at registers. (This is in California)
Wow you are the second person of Hispanic descent to speak on “the usual suspects” on YT today…. Here’s what I find ironic, didn’t Trump win by a landslide slide some years back making Hispanics specifically Mexicans out to be everything but a child of God? (He had to get votes right, which means a large amount of people shared his views) Last I checked that wasn’t your usual suspects crossing through a whole in a fence in Arizona or crossing the Rio Grande. It’s not “the usually suspects” giving NY the blues and increasing the crime rate currently. Point being there are POS from every background and walk of life, I’d rather judge people on a case by case bases.
@@zoomanx9661 they asked for it, much like the rest of the liberal areas with BidenBaboon felons and illegal aliens running around. hope they get their "fruit" picked
I don’t do self checkout. I don’t work for the store and I do not get an employee discount. All those who love self checkouts will change their tune if they ever falsely get arrested for stealing. People just need to slow the f down. I was in a Walmart a while back and the line for self checkout was longer than the regular checkout. I had a cashier check me out and I was out the door before most of those in the self checkouts.
If that happened here I might actually shop at Walmart again. I live within walking distance but drive several miles to another store that will provide service. lol the woman is "frightened" to go through a checkout line?
Self checkout is something I prefer, that way I pack the bags the way I like. I understand also, it can mean less employees, and theft must be really bad. Really should be two employees at the self checkout, instead of the usual one... four eyes plus loss prevention cameras should be able to catch the thieves.
Walmart was famous for having typically 4 or 5 registers open out of maybe 30 even during busy times. Now they have more people standing around all those self checkouts than when they just had cashiers! Sounds like a stupid business move to me. Now they are paying more people to stand around (on their phones) more money to do nothing. Someone needs to be fired for that stupid idea!
If I have 10 or less items self checkout is preferred but if I have a cart half full and to teller I get discouraged and just leave the cart and walk out.
Looks like it's cheaper to pay cashiers than lose to theft.
Walmart is not going to hire more staff to make up for the removal of self checkout. Customers will just have to wait in the lines longer as usual. The Walmart near me has 20 checkout lanes, but there is never more than 3 open at a time even during the busiest times.
@@YAZZYUTUBE The same where I live. After 7:00 pm only two cashiers open to discourage people from shopping in the evening.
congrats now you have to wait longer in line 🎉
I agree totally with you @requiem5179
Cashier $15 a hour vs HUNDREDS $'s per hour from that SAME REGISTER = No Brainer $15 vs $300, Do The Math
When they put self check out kiosks, they said it was just a convenient "option" and that you were still free to go to the cashier lane. Then when the kiosks weren't being used enough, they started getting rid of cashiers, leaving one or two cashiers and a loooong line in them to force you to go to the self check out area.
Now that they see they have theft problems with people abusing the system, they now remove it to go back to cashiers.
It was NEVER about convenience for the customer and was ALWAYS about increasing profits by replacing cashiers.
Made obvious by their refusal to open more registers and instead expect people to wait multiple hours in line for 2 registers.
Yes that how companies work
Need to be the owner to understand.
Well, of course. Who knew?
How else do you expect companies to gain more money by hiring human cashers. Like seriously, in the long run the stores that do that will have to be closed down due to lack of income.
Store shopping patterns. A nice way to say shoplifting.
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Gotta word it somehow so as to not offend people
Well, that may be part of it...but they also do store shopping patterns so they can target you with ads and mine useful data to sell.
Perhaps if thieves were held responsible for their crimes this wouldn't be necessary.
liberal problem, let the hooved apes eat bugs.
The biggest thieves are Walmart....Are you aware of the class action suit?...you may be eligible for up to $500.00!
It is not the tax payers job to protect the goods at Walmart. Stores got lazy stopped having cashiers, guards replaced with greeters that could not stop a thief if they wanted to.
@@zed4229Unfortunately you must be too young to remember a time when stores in this part of the world did not require armed guards and it was just the natural order of things that anyone who worked would earn a living wage? ....And there was affordable housing and a homeless person was a rare sight....
Believe it or not Walmart has a corporate policy of greeters to NOT be intimidating and for the store staff to never get in any altercation with criminals and other shoplifters!...
@@stevebell4906 Yeah, when beggars where something you heard about in poor countries or in the past, not something routinely encountered at freeway exits and grocery stores.
Theft: call it like it is.
SELFFFF ckout = help ya self
And if it's so, this is a good thing... Now hire people like you're suppose to.
It is considered racism.. you can’t call it that, it’s called DEI 👍
@WebDesignSocal... Whatever it is, it's a good idea
Now the government needs to begin arresting and prosecuting people by giving criminals real jail time.
I would never shop at any store that is only self checkout.
@@user-yo9pv1ni6t😂😂😂😂😂😂
This was the Walton's poor attempt to try to automate the cashier jobs. As if The Waltons are not making enough profit already, this move motivated by greed is a total flop
Which is cheaper having cashiers or self checkouts that is losing money to stolen goods..
Is the money lost from thieves is less then paying cashiers..? Then let it be..
If you think Walmart's issues are bad between self check-out & actual cashier lines. Take a look at the debacle going on with the Amazon brick & mortar stores. There's a little bit of everything in Amazon's story. It's quite interesting, but funny, yet very deceitful & a complete lie to their so-called technology in AI. They claimed that their AI system were running the stores all by themselves. There are NO check-out lines at all in Amazon stores for customers to check out anything they want or need to purchase. You just put the things you wanna buy in the shopping cart & their AI customer service does the rest. All you do is walk straight out the door. But do they... 🤔 I'll leave the rest for you to get a good laugh. 😂😜🤣 +Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend+ 🤘😎🤘
@@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews bidenbaboons will still steal anything that isnt nailed down
@@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviewsgives more time for employees to fill out their welfare applications
How do you know its motivated by greed?
How ironic. People going to Steelyard Commons to steal. 😮
Stealyards is what I called it from day one. It's nasty inside too.
I'm one
Used to live in Newburgh Heights. I worked afternoons and would stop after work and see people lined up with overflowing grocery carts. I was like, are you in line? And they were like, nah, just waiting for our EBT cards to be refilled at 12:01 AM.
I saw it, you see it, but they lie about it.
It's originally called Steelyards because of the steel plant LTV but now it means something else 😂🤣
Stealyards!!
It's "costly to hire cashier's", but don't they already have an employee standing there watching us use the self checkout?!?
At ours there 2 or 3 standing around
They are watching their friends, brothers, and cousins steal.
Depending on the store it is as little as a 4 self-checkout machines to 1 paid checkout assistant to as much as a 10 machine to 1 paid employee ratio, so it is still worth it in the store's eyes in some cases to have 1 paid assistant to oversee multiple self-checkout machines.
Get the pay rate up dammit
"Store shopping patterns?" That's simply a politically correct way to say "theft."
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Of a certain demographic.
We all know who.
Nobody wants the stupid self check outs anyway
Also they said "shrinkage", Lol
@@cjlaity1 Really? I greatly prefer self-checkouts. With self checkouts, I find the lines are short or nonexistent.
My local Dollar General had 2 self and 1 clerk checkouts. They have now closed the 2 self checks. I asked and the mgr said there was excessive theft.
I asked the one dollar general shop up the street from me why they closed the self checkout. She was like they skip items.
@@lc-il6wr yah, my girl said it was big numbers.
Kudos to Dollar General. They don't mess around. A lot of their cashiers are armed.
Change in shopping patterns = shoplifting. Fixed it for you.
@@richardpatrick2852 It likely depends on the neighborhood. High shoplifting-no self checkouts, lower, they can keep them.
The theft outweighed the labor cost!
In & Out so fast that you don’t even needs to pay. 😂
Why did my mind think you were talking about In & Out burgers?? Now I want it, lol.
sounds like a liberals @ss also
Lower labor cost *OR* High shrinkage/theft?
Removing the self checkout just proves that Walmart chose incorrectly.
Greed vs. Karma
Never should started self checkout. The prices are skyrocketing and there's no customer service anywhere. I don't shop at Wal-Mart so it doesn't matter to me but they should have known better.
It's called inflation.
bidenomics- caused by SeNiLeApe JoKKKe
The Walton family has created more welfare recipients than any pandemic or market crash ever could.
I’d like to see all cashiers at stores again. It so much more convenient and takes the stress out of shopping.
Stealing caused this dont blame them...
Serves them right. They stole 200,000 jobs. CORPORATE BOOT LICKER.
They stole 200,000 jobs. CORPORATE BOOT LICKER
They stole 200,000 jobs. CORPORATE BOOT LICKER
There is more 'inside ' stealing than customer theft.
Why not, they blame innocent people in every other video about theft. THis ThE pOLicy THey vOted fOr
In my honest opinion, Wal-Mart's self-checkouts need to be gotten rid of in ALL of the states of the USA. I miss the good old days back when all Wal-Marts had cashiers who would checkout items FOR YOU.
The walmart that's closest to me is a ghetto walmart. I say ghetto because there are a lot of items they have locked up because the thieves will steal them. I can drive about another 8 miles to a much better walmart where the same items are not locked away. Location, location, location.
and it's not the roads, dirt or weather that is stealing. The location means the 'clients'
Same here! The one closest to me has had a murder and a rape in the parking lot over the past few years and everything is locked up. I drive 10 minutes to Amish country and it’s a completely different world. People are polite, nonviolent, and nothing is locked away. Damn these ghetto people!
They’re ALL ghetto; they’re Walmarts after all…
Fjb's distopien America.
Good, Walmart employee's need to do their job!!!
I hated self check out when it started and I hate it now. My only problem is, Walmart better hire enough cashiers so one doesn't have to wait in line for 1/2 an hour.
Lol now you only get 2 lanes with a line a mile long with a person that scans and bags slow.
God forbid we hire people to work for a living.
Walmart can't wait until they don't need humans.
Good luck hiring people and finding people that actually want to work in this country.
That’s why Biden wants illegal aliens, “cheap labor” 🙄
@@kimberlymcgee907as soon as that happens, it'll be a resurgence of mom and pop shops.
Self Checkout is more popular for both consumers and the company. This is being forced on both groups by thieves.
I prefer self checkout. It's faster and I don't need to talk to the cashier. Bagging my items makes sure that nothing gets broken or smashed. People complaining about self checkout are pathetic. America needs more kiosks and self checkouts.
Walmart is asking you to bag your own groceries (use to have baggers) and then has an employee look over your shoulder to see if your not stealing something....no thanks
they're doing it because of all the shoplifting
And they allow skimmers to be installed since "that's not shoplifting.. it's okay to do"
trying to put a tv through on a barcode for button mushrooms..we've seen ya
They stole 200,000 jobs. CORPORATE BOOT LICKER
Poor baby has to bag groceries. Its your choice what are you complaining about
They should take them out of all wal-marts in my opinion. 👍
I hope this is a trend. I hate seeing 3 or 4 employees hanging around self checkout when there are registers closed, then get treated like a criminal when leaving the store.
well, most people that go through self-checkout, at least in this store, ARE criminals
Drama Queen.
@@joemama9098corporate slave
Instead of looking over my shoulder, please just check out my groceries.
A glance at your receipt isn't being treated like a criminal. Did you get the TSA treatment? Pat down and/or cavity search? Please.
If they would address the high prices of food (price- gouging) charged by these corporations that would change but the horse is out of the stable now 😒 I blame the Price Gouging Corporations for their Sinkage and I no longer shop their along with Target and other stores 😮
The way workers pushed people to self-checkout actually lead me to quit shipping at Walmart
Workers didn't push people. The corporations did.
I worked at CVS, we were forced. They kept track. I was told my register would be taken away if I didn't force more people to use self check out. That pissed me off and I didn't care, I took care of my customers.
@traybern Before you think yourself clever and me dumb, re-read to first comment. There is no correlation with what you just said. It's about "who" pushed people to self -checkout. Workers and employees never did, it was the corporate owners.
At my local Walmart you have to wait in line just to get in line at a register to be checked out unless you go through self checkout.
@traybernlmao someone just learned how to use UA-cam
Capitalisms in a nut shell.
As someone who installs these self-checkouts, this is a great idea. While its less work for me, Walmart now has to start hiring more staff to get the lines going. Is it a bad thing for the customers to wait, yes! This is the perfect way to combat thief and reduce lawsuits for wrongful accusations of thief as well.
"Walmart in Steelyard Commons removing all self-checkouts,"
or in other words,
"Walmart in Steelyard Commons restoring responsibility to its employees."
Question, is Stealyard Commons misspelled? What did Walmart think would happen with self checkout?
More like, "Walmart removes self checkout because DAs and judges don't punish criminals."
Actually there is no responsibility on the employee, if you catch someone steeling something you are not to approach or question the person, you are just to report it and move along.
@@janiestla5945 Oh my answering questions. Now that is tough. You have no clue.
I'll go one step further, put the responsibility on management to plan how to make the checkout process better, more workforce and more (X) items or less checkouts.
I hope all retail companies remove self checkouts. Theft is ramped using self checkouts. We never had them when I was a child and we survived! Get Rid Of Them👍👍👍 Plus removing them creates more jobs for those who have to actually check out customers👍👍
Good! Hate those self checkouts
can't stand them I am paying for all my items vs the theives paying for almost nothing.
Were you forced to use them, or do you just enjoy denying others choice?
Hate them too
I literally stand in line to be checked out for me as opposed to check myself out
@@B-RaDD Man you need help. You'd rather stand in line for an hour than be in and out in 20 minutes?
Good. I wish all self-checkouts would be removed. Keep employees employed.
When consequences for thieving are too lenient, it only results in more thieving. Also, when you have a Country controlled by Itiot politicians who create high inflation, it magnifies the problem.
It’s all being done and allowed with a purpose.
When you force customers to be unpaid cashiers, if they miss scanning an item why would they care? Self checkout is moronic.
I agree, best way to take out self check out. Less crime more employment .
Shoplifting 😂
No employees, no reason to support . This is one of the reasons why I’ve stopped shopping at Walmart.
If you live in the area, one can probably come to the conclusion that it's mostly due to theft, if these problems persist in some areas, stores will just start or continue to leave. Most of the people that are stealing are not doing it out of necessity either.
FITTING ROOMS in stores will go away next. People stealing are ruining the PRIVILEGE to try on clothes before buying.
@@kristenmarie9248 I'm surprised they're been dressing rooms available for customers for year's now, much less having one at all today, really. Granted petty theft in stores is worse today than it was years ago but it's really nothing new. There was a lot of shady shlt going on even back in the 70's/80's when I was in HS. Young punk kid's were hustling Levi's, leather jackets, albums, etc... all the time in school. So much so, I'd say they're partially responsible that places like Merry-Go-Round & J P Snodgrass went out of business as quick as they did back in the day. I wasn't down with stealing stuff, not even a penny. But I'm not gonna lie, I did buy a few pairs of those brand new Levi 501's & bell-bottoms for a couple bucks from those kids. Sorry, but I couldn't pass up a deal like that. I'm just saying... 🤔 Kid's would go into J P Snodgrass wearing a pair of their dad's jeans & walk into the dressing room with 7 or 8 pairs of Levi's in their hands. Then put on 3 or 4 pairs of brand new Levi's underneath the clothes they came in with & walk out the door. And most of the girls who worked @Merry-Go-Round were always dressed to the nine's. Those girls stole so many clothes from that store there's still probably a bunch of shlt in their closets they never even worn yet one time. Just saying & keeping it a buck! +Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend+ 🤘😜🤘
No one stealing is doing out of necessity.
Wal-Mart is not allowed to use the word theft or they might be fined millions of dollars or sued by groups that support shoplifting as reparations for forced labor 150 years ago .
Wonderful, hate those self check out devices where ever they are. Much prefer a professinal polite cashier.
The problem with cashiers is they are slow as hell and have zero motivation to work faster. Walmart never has enough registers open to meet demand.
@@mlong9475 when Sam Walton started his marketing ploy was no more than Three in a line & another checkout will open. That was before my time, just read about it. Now living in a Major tourist destination & they never have enough cashiers. They realize you will wait in line & we do/ have. So glad for grocery pick up! Been doing it for over four years. Shopping this way has created jobs & sustains them.
I prefer self checkout, for one I don't have a stranger feeling up on my food, and 2, there's no lines, nobody waiting 3 inches from your back, breathing down your kneck.. and 3 it's literally 15 times faster to check out and bag all of your own stuff than it is to wait in line and have some worker do it. Thief's always gotta ruin it for the rest of us. Smdh.
Enjoy your 25min wait in line😂
The only place I've ever encountered where one HAD to use them was back when our Kroger's were still open 24/7 and that is all they had open on the 3rd shift (which was fine with me). Walmart was exactly the opposite when they were 24/7; cashier checkout only during the 3rd shift.
There have been some supermarkets and drug stores that eliminated cashiers after a certain time at night. Every time I filled my cart with merchandise only to find that self-checkout was the only way to pay for my items, I left my cart and walked out of the store empty-handed.
I made the out-of-towner mistake of going there when I was working in Cleveland. I had never seen anything like it- it looked like a hurricane had swept through- stuff just pulled off the shelves and left.
The local guys said I was lucky I wasn’t shot/carjacked.
How am I supposed to be employee of the month if they remove self checkout?
Shopping patterns… yeah.
I refuse to use self checkout anywhere. The way I see it, I don't work for the retailer. The jobs lost don't translate to savings for the shopper, just profit for the share holder.
"Shrinkage" ...
Calling George Costanza!
Breathtaking. 😂
I was in the pool!!
Worst idea they ever had .. make that all retail outlets
They should keep a couple self-checkouts so those with a few items can get through quickly. They are meant for people with a small number of items, not for full carts.
That's what most of the stores around my area do (southern Ca), it's weird hearing others don't do the same. As much as it irritates me that I can't use the self-checkouts if I have too many items, I'm glad there's that rule. We've all been behind that person who seems like it's their first rodeo (first time using the self-checkout) and they managed to pick up every single item imaginable that didn't have a barcode to scan. A mixture of both self and manned checkouts would be ideal, but sadly, this world is far from perfect.
I agree. Keep some.
Self checkout should be 10 items or less
@@Familyfoodfun504 Yes, I think they used to be but then things got out of hand.
My mom worked at a McDonald’s inside of Walmart 20 years ago and she said that every register at most times of the day and night had all open registers, if they can keep all the registers open then having no self checkouts won’t really be a problem with long lines if it’s some crazy holiday weekend
To improve I store experience and store shopper patterns 😂. That is a great way to say these thieves keep stealing, and we can't do nothing about it.
They're still only going to have two cashiers. lmao.
Bet you’re right!
NO! they will hire at least 2 more---that 80 year old who takes an hour to find the price of carrots.
Unfortunately, I have my doubts based on corporate greed.
Greedy corporations so blinded by their greed that they couldn't have predicted that self checkout was never going to work. I knew years ago it wouldn't last. They should be firing the people who thought it was a good idea.
Low trust society.
Dishonest society.
When people can't find jobs that pay them enough for the necessities, they steal. I don't condone it but nobody should be surprised either.
For valid reasons.
thank you biden
Liberal society
I've never used a self checkout. Until a store gives me a paycheck, they can ring up their stuff if they want me to pay for it. I am not doing someone else's job for them.
Too many Hobo's and criminals in the area
Sad. The city should be doing something about that problem. People don't just become like that overnight and that problem doesn't develop overnight. It has to be ignored for a long time.
That’s just the employees you’re talking about 😂
Thank God cause I hate self check out. I don’t go into a store to do their job. I don’t get paid by Walmart to scan my own items. That’s why we have cashiers and it’s very impersonal. The machine doesn’t talk to you and doesn’t say hi like a cashier does, so glad that somebody is starting to remove them..
Bring the cashiers back I'm tired of bagging my own groceries, the only thing i want to bag is a milf with big boobs.
Why would it be "frightening" to have to go through a cashier? Good grief.
@@sorcierx2604I have a survival skill I've honed in California.
Judge the animals quickly.
@sorcierx2604 if you are scared that an extra 10 mins is going to put you in harms why then you should never had been there in the first place when was the last time you was at a fully staffed checkout store and had long lines .....that lady just talking to talk
I hate it . Long lines with people breathing down ur neck
You have no idea......
Who wants to wait in a long line with big orders in front of them when you are only buying 1 or 2 items?
Shopping patterns = People stealing merchandise!
Call it what it is, don’t sugar coat it!
Thank the long eyelash community for this
Since when did men start wearing fake lashes?????😂
I never noticed that Bret favre wore eyelashes 😂
😂 That’s right. They’re to blame for many of society’s ills. Plus a wig a day means crime’s here to stay and the longer the nails means more shoplifting than sales.
@@81redddd
And the biggest thieves wear a suit and tie and have degrees! 😄
Lol
A few Walmarts in the Minneapolis area close because of theft. We have a HY VEE store in a challenge area. They removed the Self Checkout, due to Theft. An Aldi store that was not that old, was closed in another Challenge area Due to Theft also.
They either make difficult changes like these or they close the store. It sounds to me like that's what it's coming to. I'm surprised that store is still open tbh.
YES!!! FINALLY! OH GOD I HOPE THEY DO THIS IN CANADA TOO!
Self checkout was a way for stores to cut jobs. With the amount of money Wal Mart makes they can afford to hire more staff and pay them a living wage. Better yet, the workers should unionize.
That'll make things better😂
@@JohnnyWinters-ok7ix Keep simping for billionaires.
Living wage lol. Made up meaningless phrase.
@@rmszucs1you don't realize you are a communist puppet. You won't like communism when it is fully implemented.
If you rely on minimum wage as a career you failed , your parents failed, your education failed your government failed .
i love when the elders ask to see receipts when you are leavin wally world. that's the bes part of the experience.
Yes , rid of them self checkouts , hire more cashiers , i ❤ my cashiers
Cashiers increase costs. Having a choice is the way to go. Thank you Walmart
@@debrahelicke7204 But did walmart and the other companies push the labor cost savings they got when they first pushed out self-check outs to you? Did they reduce prices when they dumped millions in overhead. No, they pushed it into profit. But them losses due to scan skipping or mis scanned things those costs they pushed to higher prices. Self-Check Out is a scam.
They won’t. They will just make you wait longer.
I'm glad you love cashiers. I don't. I hate them. They are slow and rude. I can scan my items quicker.
The more cashiers they hire then the fewer hours they’ll get because labor will have to be divided among the cashiers. A lot of times only 2-3 regular checkouts are open. And who wants to wait in line for 1 or 2 items when you have an alternate, the self checkout.
You should have never had it in the first place. I literally live up the street from Walmart, and I do not shop there.
So your comment is irrelevant if you don't go there.
Self-checkout is much faster. Just because YOU don't like it, doesn't mean they shouldn't have it.
@@CMV314it only adds to theft.
@@JonnyQest666 Obviously but thanks for your comment
Shouldn't have had it in the first place !! Arrogant ass. Are you a business owner trying to improve customer experience. Self check out is a great alternative. Use it all the time. Some smug people like you think you are too good for Walmart. No one cares if you shop there. Not the point of the story
I actually love self checkout. I can get in and out, without having to deal with some overly talkative, slow, or nasty attitude having employee.
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Shrinkage…”I was in the pool!” ~George Castanza
You gotta see tha baaaybee!😂
The water was cold!
@@janeentumbao8690 breathtaking…
I love it! We pay for bags. Pay to bag everything and check out our own goods and they save on labor. How many jobs were cut because of those machines? I refuse to use them. But I agree with everyone's right to choose. If you prefer it then you go to them. I just want a bit of service when im spending my money. I now use the app and pick up all my stuff. I have them do my shopping and loading. I never over spend on things that might have caught my eye while wondering through the isles anymore. No more spending on clothing i really didn't need. Or shoes or anything else. I am able to totally stick to my budget every time and i dont step foot in the store.
I shop at Aldi which has self checkout lines and have gone to registers that still have the previous customer items listed and not paid. The customer just walked out after scanning and bagging their groceries. 🤦♀️
Black privilege?
Awesome!! I hate not getting PAID to do their job! 👈🤬
Good. Too much theft happening and too many people who make innocent mistakes getting charged when they make a mistake because Walmart is too cheap to hire checkout employees.
Good !!! these people are stealing from Walmart so much....
The honor system doesn't work in certain locations with a certain demographic.
can you expound on this?
@@agent1.618 you know exactly what he/she said or are you playing dumb?
@@agent1.618 Black people, overweight white women and young teens of all races. Clear enough or you need a twitter ceo to cuddle you to sleep?
@@kenmoreSF He must be a blacktavist.
They stole 200,000 jobs. CORPORATE BOOT LICKER
Pretty soon... there will not be stores to walk around and shop for items as we know it. It will all be a huge warehouses with a front pick up area where you can go online, choose what you want, pay for it in advance, then someone will bring up your order to the front... or to the car in the parking lot.
@FrostyBytes really? Ya veremos.
I despise self check out with every fibre in my body.
Having cahiers is easy, secure, safe, commercially beneficial and generally a pleasant experience.
Where there are self check outs there are fewer customers and fewer goods.
I would like to keep self checkout as an option. But clearly there are a lot of issues with it so I get why they are cutting back. I just find it funny that it was supposed to be the answer to their labor cost issue and now they're having to bring back people. It makes me wonder how all these other projects they're implementing to get rid of having to pay employees will work out for them. They'll be whining in about 5 years that that they can't make any money because people have found ways to working around all their AI to scam them out of money.
@@Liz-wz8dh Meh, big stores don't have labor cost issues, at least not when it comes to retail employees: they get paid chump change. They only pushed this because they wanted to squeeze every penny of profit.
Who remembers Walmart before they had self-checkout so much stuff was getting stolen and it has parking spots for police officers. A lot of it came from employees but some customers too.
True. And store rules change, but people don’t, they have their ways.
Fun fact: Walmart is getting rid of all self checkouts everywhere thanks to your usual suspects. The lines are bad at registers. (This is in California)
Lots of illegal Gonzaleses in California, I wouldn’t talk if I were you
Wow you are the second person of Hispanic descent to speak on “the usual suspects” on YT today…. Here’s what I find ironic, didn’t Trump win by a landslide slide some years back making Hispanics specifically Mexicans out to be everything but a child of God? (He had to get votes right, which means a large amount of people shared his views) Last I checked that wasn’t your usual suspects crossing through a whole in a fence in Arizona or crossing the Rio Grande. It’s not “the usually suspects” giving NY the blues and increasing the crime rate currently. Point being there are POS from every background and walk of life, I’d rather judge people on a case by case bases.
@@zoomanx9661I would rather have illegals than entitled basketball Americans.
@@zoomanx9661 they asked for it, much like the rest of the liberal areas with BidenBaboon felons and illegal aliens running around. hope they get their "fruit" picked
Walmart should just Close that Location to Improve the Customer Experience.
“Store shopping patterns”. Read: “theft”. So many thieves.
They stole 200,000 jobs. CORPORATE BOOT LICKER
They stole 200,000 jobs. CORPORATE BOOT LICKER
They stole 200,000 jobs. CORPORATE BOOT LICKER
I don’t do self checkout. I don’t work for the store and I do not get an employee discount. All those who love self checkouts will change their tune if they ever falsely get arrested for stealing. People just need to slow the f down. I was in a Walmart a while back and the line for self checkout was longer than the regular checkout. I had a cashier check me out and I was out the door before most of those in the self checkouts.
If that happened here I might actually shop at Walmart again. I live within walking distance but drive several miles to another store that will provide service. lol the woman is "frightened" to go through a checkout line?
No one wants to deal with a cashier.
You weren't paying attention.
A mile and a half? Yeah, that’s walking distance.
This is bad news for the ' Usual Suspects ' as theft will be a bit more complicated for this Culture
Criminals will always find loopholes....
That's how it is...
Good. Wish they would get rid of all self checkouts. I don't work for free.
Self checkout is something I prefer, that way I pack the bags the way I like. I understand also, it can mean less employees, and theft must be really bad. Really should be two employees at the self checkout, instead of the usual one... four eyes plus loss prevention cameras should be able to catch the thieves.
They need to do that everywhere! Fuck the self checkouts, its not convenient
We know why but the media will never say it.
It’s also that the amount shrink affects the managers bonuses
Customers better need to check their receipts in case an item gets double scanned
Just a thought, More jobs.
Good. I don't ever use self checkouts. And don't shop at stores that only have self check outs.
Best thing about self-checkout is I don't have to interact with any human.
😵
you're pathetic
Choice is what it is all about
Especially the Walmart employees. You get more interaction from a wall than from a Walmart employee. 😂
@@JK-lp6uw15 minutes of helping Walmart customers you would want to unalive yourself too
“Shopping patterns.”
More like shopLIFTING patterns.
Who in their right mind would shop at this location ? Be safe and shop somewhere else.
We don't work at Wal-Mart or any other stores. Why should we have to check ourselves out.
That's ok with me .
Walmart was famous for having typically 4 or 5 registers open out of maybe 30 even during busy times. Now they have more people standing around all those self checkouts than when they just had cashiers! Sounds like a stupid business move to me. Now they are paying more people to stand around (on their phones) more money to do nothing.
Someone needs to be fired for that stupid idea!
How about lowering the prices so people would want to go into the stores..
Tell Biden to stop screwing up and causing inflation.
Crooked joe is behind all this inflation. You probably voted for him.
If I have 10 or less items self checkout is preferred but if I have a cart half full and to teller I get discouraged and just leave the cart and walk out.
SeQuanicha and DeLaMakomouious claim it is against their constitutional rights to pay for their goods
Next step - close the store and move out of Cleveland