I don't get it either like using more time then why not just put self checkout and more receipt checkers and make it into like a costco. they probably can't hire people as it is so you have like two lanes open lol
@liferx4343 It means more jobs for unskilled and uneducated people and otherwise incapable of finding a job in their field people, which we have a glut of in this state.
since when does giving people busy work enhance creativity or productivity? the government should just give people money for behaving well, let machines do things where humans dont have to.
%100 is this a loss prevention decision. Self checkout has created so many loop holes with bulk purchases and door greeter positions brushed off. At this point I’m sure everyone has stolen from Walmart because of self checkout either intentionally or not.
And I'm sure WM has double-dinged me for items. Yet I could scan a whole basket faster than most of these Idiocratist shoppers with a few. I want self-checkout, just not self-harrassment. Shame the cost to live, and a few criminals, has ruined it for the rest of us.
Don't put ME in that category. I don't go shopping to steal groceries. Insead of going home with your stuff , you get caught and ger arrested. Bad decision .
Yes, she says it's sooo inconvenient to have to wait in line for a "couple of items". What she "forgets" to mention is that it's so much harder to steal those items when you're being checked out by an employee.
Nah, it's a major inconvenience to have wait behind people with shopping carts that are overflowing when you only have a few items! If they're going to eliminate self checkout, then they better open up an express lane!
@@BST-lm4po Sure, express lanes. They have that already. As long as "express" lane doesn't mean an open door that you just run out. Is that what you want? Sorry, you have to pay.
Self check out with no cashiers was asking for problems. Honestly id rather ring my own stuff. I was a cashier and i really like to put cold stuff with cold stuff and not put the milk in the same bag with my bread. And also my clothing in the same bag as my meat. Soo instead of complaining how a cashier does it i just do it myself. But honestly it still blows my mind how they dont even attempt to bag things more convenient. And most the cashiers were kind of rude where i am. So id rather avoid them anyways
I work at Circle K on Osuna I just quit today. I got hit in the face with an elbow by a homeless man and I was threatened by another woman that was homeless then at the end of the night I was threatened with a gun. Called the police they never showed up once I was at a Circle K store working alone and the cops never showed up they called me an hour and 15 minutes later telling me that did I still need them to show up. So if I didn't answer the phone they would have assumed that I didn't need them to but what if I was dead these cops are either lazy or overwhelmed but I'm disgusted by the fact that we have no police protection at any stores and that's why there's so many thieves instead of just putting it on the police department put it on the government for not properly enacting and placating to the homeless over the taxpayers I can't hold a job because homeless people can do whatever the f*** they want to.. people wonder why people don't work because we're not safe and we're not getting paid enough money to do this kind of job Valero on Osuna and Jefferson kitty corner from us has been closed for over a week because it's not save the homeless people are running amok in controlling the road in the street doing whatever the hell they want to and I am worth more than $14.50 an hour working for Circle K who doesn't care if I live or die
I knew it was a bad idea when they started it in my neighborhood. I never wanted computers checking me out. That puts people out of work and gives crimlnals the chance to put those card skimmers on the machines to steal your money. I'd rather stand in line where REAL people work.
It's always hilarious to see all these "I hate the self checkouts, get rid of them!" and the "I'm using self checkout to steal!" comments. People fail to realize, if corporate is taking them out, it means it's one step closer to converting that store to all OGP (online grocery pick-up). In short, you won't be allowed in the store. You'll have to order stuff online, and once you've paid for it, yourstuff will be brought to your car. Don't have a car? Don't have a debit card? Don't know how to use the app? Hmm, sorry, sucks to be you! Give a huge thanks to everybody whining about self checkouts!
I live in Lexington Park Md. and the cashiers are very pleasant. Some people don't know how to be kind and smile . I do and the cashiers smile back. They even walk around and put my bags in the cart. Kindness goes both ways.
Great! Now I have to wait in long lines behind people who look like they're shopping for the entire year! Then add another hour everytime someone wants a price check on an item because they thought it was supposed to be 5 cents cheaper!!
@@iamtheoffenderofall What's the difference between taking an item out of your cart and putting it on a conveyor belt, or running it across a scanner and putting it in a bag? At least you can pack the items the way that you want them!
@@BST-lm4po I'm not scanning items. I'm not bagging items. I'm not processing the cash to make change. The fact you have to ask this displays your lack of intelligence. Would you fix your own car after having taken it to a mechanic? Would you snake your own toilet after calling the plumber? What you are babbling about is exactly this.
Finally. Sick of doing their damn jobs. You should get a discount if you do self checkout for doing their jobs. This state is still leading in the wrong direction as always
@@markgutierez9922 Thats why when I self checkout, I pay myself for doing their jobs. How? Somethings dont get scanned. I am not a charitable organization. My time is very important and precious to be working for free.
I love self checkout. I get to put more than two items in one bag, not have to force small talk, and my IQ is high enough to use it in the first place without crying and begging for a discount.
@@privatename2648 12 comments on this channel with the same negative tone. Understandably I’m not going to take this one seriously when the M.O. here is to (poorly) insult people you don’t agree with. Kind of funny that I _barely_ address the issue with people being too undereducated to use a two-step machine, yet here you came as though someone blew the horn of your people🤷🏻♂️ Since you’re still here, it’s going to have to be better than the last one for me to maintain my interest here.
I have a very high IQ but I'm also Autistic which makes computers hard for me because the way they work changes with each update. IQ has nothing to do with working computers and in many cases people with a lower IQ are good at that kind of stuff.
this isnt hard. its real simple. 10 items or less? self checkout. 11 items or more? normal checkout. or better yet, if you have a basket, self checkout, if you have a cart? normal checkout.
Who wants to interact with a Walmart employee? I mean you go to get your groceries. I don’t wanna hear some story that never ends while I wait while my ice cream melt I’d rather check myself out.
They put self-checkout at our local grocery store and with buy one get one free or buy two get two free and people mixing the wrong Brands coupons I mean it is absolute utter chaos and ridiculous. My daughter says she sees people just walk out with stuff switch prices on items put a $2 cookie price on a bouquet of roses. It's ridiculous already. We like people
I need to closely monitor my Wal-Mart purchases. I have encountered way too many scanning errors that would have cost me. So, keep your chit chat with the cashiers and let me check myself out. I promise not to steal the cookies. 😮
I believe self checkout should be for 10 items or less, period. Hard to steal when so few, easy for employee to watch, and easy to prove INTENT if do not scan. Heck, machines should have you input the number of items you have, 10, 9, 8, 7, etc FIRST, then scan, goodbye theft, goodbye extra 20% more the rest of us pay FOR THAT THEFT, and goodbye my extreme irritation over having to scan the packed $300 worth of groceries in my buggy!
If they've lost so much money, where do they get the money to remodel their store. Seems to me that since businesses received billions in PPP loans a lot businesses have been remodeling.
What they REALLY need to do is hire more checkout operator's! And keep all registers open during business hour's! This b.s. of only having one or two lanes open needs to stop! Management needs an ASS WHOOPING!
I noticed the past two weeks Walmarts in the Salt Lake metro area closed their self checkouts making people wait in line for unfriendly employees to slowly do their jobs. A Walmart employee told me theft is too high despite having employees and actual city police keeping a close eye. I believe it has more to do with inflation, economic downturn, and operating cost management.
Maybe she really has tentacles. lol. But, seriously, pretty much half the Walmart employees I come across in the store (wherever in the store they happen to be) are rude as h!! They hate their jobs and they take it out on the customers.@@Bdamazyn
A recent MIT study put the average cost of a 4-station grocery check out station at $125,000 in install. Now Walmonster will remove them and and then what ? Dump them in the local Land-Fills ?
Self checkout will be back one day but it will be much more automated so there is no stealing from the store. I prefer self checkout personally but it will be interesting to see what technology they use to bring it back.
Waiting for a self-checkout is a hell lot more annoying if you're just buying a couple of items. The staffs are real fast at checkout you out when you're buying only a couple of items.
Ppl need jobs, why do we need robot's thinking for us, all day long? Lol.. When using self checkout you still have to wait! if you encounter an error for the attendant to correct! That still takes time, while they are bouncing all over the place till they get to you! How is that quicker? Possibly, opening 3 lanes for Ppl that have 20 items or less they should try that for a period of time,. If it doesn't have the amount of Ppl for the fast checkout then go to 2 lanes. Same goes for the larger purchases & the other checkouts, add 5 lanes try that out, if not go to 4 lanes. Imo also, monitoring slow cashier's would be ideal, as well. Not all older register operator's are slow, I've seen some younger cashiers go slow, as if they are getting paid by the day. Ppl have other things in their daily agendas to attend too. If you want frozen food separately from other items why not just ask? Their are also, good older adults and young cashier's, don't get me wrong! just saying.
I'm 100% sure they did this due to the huge amounts of theft taking place however, at my local Walmart, the self check outs have staff standing around watching everyone check out their items. When I asked why are these people standing around watching instead of actually doing the job of checking out customers the response was that the company pays them to look at their phones while you check out to see if you're stealing!! WTF?? If you don't want everyone stealing put back the actual check out stands with live cashiers, that'll cut down on theft... duh!!!
The problem is staff retention. If they can't keep employees, then waiting in long checkout lines because they have no cashier's also hurts their bottom line when people stop shopping there because of it.
Remind me again why the one on Zuni shut down.... Citizens should be allowed to deal with thieves however they see fit. Personally I see them as nuisance animals
I never liked self-checkout. They don't give you a discount for doing the employee's rightful work, and that never felt right with me. It's especially annoying if you have a lot of produce to look up and weigh. For fewer items, how about an Express Lane for 10 or fewer items now that they have cashiers?
Personally, I will NEVER self checkout. Also, if I get to the front of the store and no cashiers are open forcing you to self-check I just leave my basket right there and walk out -- I will NEVER self checkout. Some stores converted 100% to self check and I simply wont go. But it seems wise to leave the option open for those weirdo's who do like to do the stores work for them. :) (my wife is one of those weirdo's she loves it. I always ask is she restocked the shelves as well before she left!)
@@Robohazrad Is adulting too hard for you and you just can't pull it off? Poor thing. :( Do you want to put on your big girl panties and try again - maybe act like an adult this time and have a normal conversation?
You realize that leaving a cart full of groceries will now have an associate that probably would have been on a register now delayed to put back all that stuff.
At my Walmart, the only one in the entire county, people aren't trained on how to do anything so I was ecstatic when we got self checkout machines. I no longer have some dumbass putting my food in a bag with motor oil. Yes, that really happened to me, I'm not making it up. As soon as I saw the kid do it I made him stop bagging my purchases, made the cashier pause in ringing anything else up until I'd gone through every bag I'd not watched due to talking to my husband. People don't care about poisoning others so if doing it myself to make sure my family doesn't get sick makes me a freak then so be it. At least I'm not driving prices up by leaving behind things the store is forced to write off because some fool walked away from a cart with refrigerator items just because he isn't happy about something others like. You owe everyone grocery money!
@@markgutierez9922 "that probably would have been on a register now delayed to put back" Catch -22 - if there had been on cashier duty I would not have left the cart. I WILL NOT SELF-CHECKOUT. I won't unload the trucks or restock the shelves either. If you don't have somone to check me out that is poor managment and poor managment is not my fault.
While we're at it we need a class action lawsuit against Walmart for intentionally leaving the machines without the ability to accept cash, a legal form of tender. At my local Walmarts they all have about 30 self check outs with maybe one "accepting cash" while the others say "card only", it's illegal for a business to refuse cash as payment and Walmart is refusing to allow these machines to accept cash because it requires a staff member to fill the machines throughout the day.
Private businesses actually do not have to accept cash. “For all debts, public and private” means paying a debt is already owed. For example, a coffee shop does not have to accept cash because you didn’t already drink the coffee, if you did then you would owe a debt and they would have to accept cash. But since you are paying for coffee you have not consumed yet, it is therefore not a debt (per law) and your cash does not have to be accepted
Also, privately owned corporations do not have to accept cash either. They are under no legal obligation to do so unless mandated by local or state ordinance
It's not just here Walmart is doing it, but everywhere. Self checkouts costed the company a lot, and costed them a lot to maintain, many never even worked properly. So sure theft is somewhat a problem, but maintaining them, and having a full IT team is the main cause as it costs a lot.
It doesn’t cost that much to operate them (that’s the main purpose behind them) and there isn’t an “IT team” behind them. It’s a way to have less employees because the customers have doing it themselves.
I hate standing in line especially behind a woman that has two cart falls of baby clothes. It makes me laugh that at Carlisle they put back a hundred checks stands, but in about a month they will only have about three open at a time. Besides they tried that already and it doesn't work because the employees don't show up especially on Friday and Saturdays. I've checked groceries for a living and it was the worst job I ever had. Employees say it's because shop lifting. I think it has nothing to do with that. Managers have to come up with an excuse for their bad managing skills. They have to blame someone else. Why do you need all those checks stands if you're only going to have 3 open at a time.
Wish I just had a home, so I could order in, instead of having to stock up my company semi all the time. Sick of this whole bullshit. Hate having to deal with people, any which way - and being prejudged and accused, for *actually* buying a whole lot of crap.
Of course theft is a reason a big part of it probly 75%....i was just in a Walmart...it used to have 30+ checkout lanes now they have 8 and not a one of them had a cashier in attendance but they have 16+ self checkouts and i counted 8 people just standing around not really doing anything except talking or being totally absorbed into their phones ....the so-called greeter didnt even look up from her phone to acknowledge anybody coming in or going out
Why can't they figure out a workable compromise for pete sake. How about a 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 ratio of cashiers to self check-out? It really doesn't have to be all or nothing!
I hate those self-checkouts anyways. I feel like I should get a 5% - 10% discount for ringing up my own groceries and bagging them. As an Autistic Person I struggle with employment and using computer systems that I don't know how they work when they change with every update. I expect things to work the same every time. When people ask me where I work I talk about things that I'm interested in. When they push the issue I tell them I work at Walmart as a cashier and sacker......when I go grocery shopping.
Newly refurbished Galesburg, Illinois Wal-Mart has OVER TWENTY FIVE "SELF CHECK-OUT LANES! JUST TWO EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE LANES! (Galesburg, Illinois does NOT HAVE THE HIGH CRIME OF "ALA-TURKEY" NEW MEXICO! 😂🙀😼
That's for the thieves at the loser Walmart's... try that in Cottonwood and you get put down to the ground.. and if you're unhappy with it and move out of the ghetto
Just one of the ways to stop theft . Congratulations Albuquerque first ones to have this done to them!!
Its not for theft lol.
Oh... it's for theft.
This is dumb because they don't pay anyway lol
@@Lee-vx9klonly thieves think that everyone is trying to steal.
Holy shit, a step in the right direction. Bravo!
I don't get it either like using more time then why not just put self checkout and more receipt checkers and make it into like a costco. they probably can't hire people as it is so you have like two lanes open lol
@liferx4343 Self checkouts means less jobs. We need more jobs
@liferx4343 It means more jobs for unskilled and uneducated people and otherwise incapable of finding a job in their field people, which we have a glut of in this state.
@@aick You want to gas all the poor people too? You sound like dolt.
since when does giving people busy work enhance creativity or productivity?
the government should just give people money for behaving well, let machines do things where humans dont have to.
%100 is this a loss prevention decision. Self checkout has created so many loop holes with bulk purchases and door greeter positions brushed off. At this point I’m sure everyone has stolen from Walmart because of self checkout either intentionally or not.
And the flip side - Walmart has falsly accused a lot of people of shoplifting who had not.
Nice, I can stop leaving 1 star at the self checkout.
And I'm sure WM has double-dinged me for items. Yet I could scan a whole basket faster than most of these Idiocratist shoppers with a few. I want self-checkout, just not self-harrassment. Shame the cost to live, and a few criminals, has ruined it for the rest of us.
Don't put ME in that category. I don't go shopping to steal groceries. Insead of going home with your stuff , you get caught and ger arrested. Bad decision .
@@michaelcesco2970 Man the point went right over your head! ZOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!
Yes, she says it's sooo inconvenient to have to wait in line for a "couple of items". What she "forgets" to mention is that it's so much harder to steal those items when you're being checked out by an employee.
Nah, it's a major inconvenience to have wait behind people with shopping carts that are overflowing when you only have a few items! If they're going to eliminate self checkout, then they better open up an express lane!
@@BST-lm4poyes there are express lanes. 10 item or less...
@@BST-lm4po Sure, express lanes. They have that already. As long as "express" lane doesn't mean an open door that you just run out. Is that what you want? Sorry, you have to pay.
Wow what a shit take.
From what I hear the added cost of surveillance security personnel is a factor with self checkouts as well.
My checkout clerk said theft dropped the same day self check outs were removed.
I think theft had a lot to do with that decision.
Yep
I went to Smiths on Lomas the other day and the new manager bagged my groceries and ask if I needed help taking it to my car. I was in shock.
Self check out with no cashiers was asking for problems. Honestly id rather ring my own stuff. I was a cashier and i really like to put cold stuff with cold stuff and not put the milk in the same bag with my bread. And also my clothing in the same bag as my meat. Soo instead of complaining how a cashier does it i just do it myself. But honestly it still blows my mind how they dont even attempt to bag things more convenient. And most the cashiers were kind of rude where i am. So id rather avoid them anyways
Eeeeeeede
I work at Circle K on Osuna I just quit today. I got hit in the face with an elbow by a homeless man and I was threatened by another woman that was homeless then at the end of the night I was threatened with a gun. Called the police they never showed up once I was at a Circle K store working alone and the cops never showed up they called me an hour and 15 minutes later telling me that did I still need them to show up. So if I didn't answer the phone they would have assumed that I didn't need them to but what if I was dead these cops are either lazy or overwhelmed but I'm disgusted by the fact that we have no police protection at any stores and that's why there's so many thieves instead of just putting it on the police department put it on the government for not properly enacting and placating to the homeless over the taxpayers I can't hold a job because homeless people can do whatever the f*** they want to.. people wonder why people don't work because we're not safe and we're not getting paid enough money to do this kind of job Valero on Osuna and Jefferson kitty corner from us has been closed for over a week because it's not save the homeless people are running amok in controlling the road in the street doing whatever the hell they want to and I am worth more than $14.50 an hour working for Circle K who doesn't care if I live or die
I knew it was a bad idea when they started it in my neighborhood. I never wanted computers checking me out. That puts people out of work and gives crimlnals the chance to put those card skimmers on the machines to steal your money. I'd rather stand in line where REAL people work.
You have to love a chain store that checks receipts at the door.
But the self check out give you the option for no receipts or e mail lol
Nobody loves being checked at the door for no reason 😂 these bot comments are hilarious.
good for jobs, bad for thieves, takes a while but id rather have it this way.
Don't change a thing for thieves I guess one less way of doing it but idk if they want to they will. Even if it just means walking out
Agree but the problem is no punishment for being caught... Do a mandatory 12 months in jail and watch theft go down considerably.
@@kevinduprey9326 True, only in other countries do they take this behavior serious.
Why? Walmart steals from us all the time.
@@j0ellyfish maby if you work there. Otherwise its the tax man thats really stealing from us
Thank god! I can’t stand that self checkout.
It’s torture when you have allot of produce!
I prefer self checkout. It's faster, convenient to bag my way, and there are never enough cashier lanes open.
It's always hilarious to see all these "I hate the self checkouts, get rid of them!" and the "I'm using self checkout to steal!" comments. People fail to realize, if corporate is taking them out, it means it's one step closer to converting that store to all OGP (online grocery pick-up).
In short, you won't be allowed in the store. You'll have to order stuff online, and once you've paid for it, yourstuff will be brought to your car.
Don't have a car? Don't have a debit card? Don't know how to use the app?
Hmm, sorry, sucks to be you! Give a huge thanks to everybody whining about self checkouts!
Fools always gloat about the bread and circus but never ask or think about what happens when the bread runs out and the circus is over.
Now they will only have two checkouts open because Walmart is too cheap to pay for more cashiers. Sounds like a step in the wrong direction to me.
I live in Lexington Park Md. and the cashiers are very pleasant. Some people don't know how to be kind and smile . I do and the cashiers smile back. They even walk around and put my bags in the cart. Kindness goes both ways.
Great! Now I have to wait in long lines behind people who look like they're shopping for the entire year! Then add another hour everytime someone wants a price check on an item because they thought it was supposed to be 5 cents cheaper!!
I love self-checkout......will not go shopping in a store where I have
to deal with some angry, surly, rude cashier.
I bet you are also against huge companies making obscene amounts of cash because you are doing the work of that companies employees.
@@iamtheoffenderofall What's the difference between taking an item out of your cart and putting it on a conveyor belt, or running it across a scanner and putting it in a bag? At least you can pack the items the way that you want them!
@@BST-lm4po I'm not scanning items. I'm not bagging items. I'm not processing the cash to make change.
The fact you have to ask this displays your lack of intelligence.
Would you fix your own car after having taken it to a mechanic? Would you snake your own toilet after calling the plumber? What you are babbling about is exactly this.
Y'all tripping!!!!😮
@@iamtheoffenderofall NOPE, huge companies can make all the money in the world, not a problem with me.
Finally. Sick of doing their damn jobs. You should get a discount if you do self checkout for doing their jobs. This state is still leading in the wrong direction as always
I agree self checkout should come with a discount
@@markgutierez9922 Thats why when I self checkout, I pay myself for doing their jobs. How? Somethings dont get scanned. I am not a charitable organization. My time is very important and precious to be working for free.
@@markgutierez9922 Maybe it already does help to keep prices lower! Now the prices will increase!
Good we need people to work together
I love self checkout. I get to put more than two items in one bag, not have to force small talk, and my IQ is high enough to use it in the first place without crying and begging for a discount.
@Matt_Villines, you forgot, "and that same IQ enables me to leave -intelligent- comments here on youtube regarding said self-checkout."
@@privatename2648 12 comments on this channel with the same negative tone. Understandably I’m not going to take this one seriously when the M.O. here is to (poorly) insult people you don’t agree with.
Kind of funny that I _barely_ address the issue with people being too undereducated to use a two-step machine, yet here you came as though someone blew the horn of your people🤷🏻♂️
Since you’re still here, it’s going to have to be better than the last one for me to maintain my interest here.
I have a very high IQ but I'm also Autistic which makes computers hard for me because the way they work changes with each update. IQ has nothing to do with working computers and in many cases people with a lower IQ are good at that kind of stuff.
I look forward to that happening in Las Vegas, New Mexico!
They have you check out own groceries and charge more for groceries . People need jobs dont replace them w self checkout.
Better idea: Pay their employees a living wage so people wanna work for em, that way they won't need robots to begin with.
@@aickwhat is a living wage?
@@setab1974 so it’s like what democrats do, got it.
@@setab1974 something democrats don’t have.
@@_DB.COOPER Google it.
Theft plays a role
They really tried to play it off
Sucks for the scan one get one free people 😂😂😂😂😂
this isnt hard. its real simple. 10 items or less? self checkout. 11 items or more? normal checkout. or better yet, if you have a basket, self checkout, if you have a cart? normal checkout.
Who wants to interact with a Walmart employee? I mean you go to get your groceries. I don’t wanna hear some story that never ends while I wait while my ice cream melt I’d rather check myself out.
They are getting ripped off so bad with self-checkout !!!
As they should. You are NOT an employee of the store. Why should you be doing their jobs?
Theft much?! That cost-cutting measure sure did back-fire. LOL!!!
ABOUT FUCKING TIME !!!!
They still owe me a shit ton of backpay for all the time accumulated checking myself out.
Nobody owes you anything, shut up!
Maybe Walmart should create 2 open cashier lanes for 10 items or less only. While they have other cashier lanes for more than 10 items.
Walmart sucks no matter what changes they make.
People cry about everything
They put self-checkout at our local grocery store and with buy one get one free or buy two get two free and people mixing the wrong Brands coupons I mean it is absolute utter chaos and ridiculous. My daughter says she sees people just walk out with stuff switch prices on items put a $2 cookie price on a bouquet of roses. It's ridiculous already. We like people
I need to closely monitor my Wal-Mart purchases. I have encountered way too many scanning errors that would have cost me. So, keep your chit chat with the cashiers and let me check myself out. I promise not to steal the cookies. 😮
You should get a discount for using self check out. You’re basically doing someone else’s job.
I believe self checkout should be for 10 items or less, period. Hard to steal when so few, easy for employee to watch, and easy to prove INTENT if do not scan. Heck, machines should have you input the number of items you have, 10, 9, 8, 7, etc FIRST, then scan, goodbye theft, goodbye extra 20% more the rest of us pay FOR THAT THEFT, and goodbye my extreme irritation over having to scan the packed $300 worth of groceries in my buggy!
If they've lost so much money, where do they get the money to remodel their store. Seems to me that since businesses received billions in PPP loans a lot businesses have been remodeling.
Bro! You know how many stuff i would not scan on those self checkout. This sucks.
What they REALLY need to do is hire more checkout operator's! And keep all registers open during business hour's! This b.s. of only having one or two lanes open needs to stop! Management needs an ASS WHOOPING!
I noticed the past two weeks Walmarts in the Salt Lake metro area closed their self checkouts making people wait in line for unfriendly employees to slowly do their jobs. A Walmart employee told me theft is too high despite having employees and actual city police keeping a close eye. I believe it has more to do with inflation, economic downturn, and operating cost management.
Just solve the problem and have both available to satisfy everyone!?
My store has 7 regular checkouts and only 4 self.
We made it through in the 90's. Im sure you all will be fine.
Huffsters
I liked the self checkout. Cashiers here are very rude, especially to people like me.
People like you? You're different in some way?
Maybe she really has tentacles. lol. But, seriously, pretty much half the Walmart employees I come across in the store (wherever in the store they happen to be) are rude as h!! They hate their jobs and they take it out on the customers.@@Bdamazyn
A recent MIT study put the average cost of a 4-station grocery check out station at $125,000 in install. Now Walmonster will remove them and and then what ? Dump them in the local Land-Fills ?
So can one steal
With impunity in the 505 ?
Asking for a friend
Self checkout will be back one day but it will be much more automated so there is no stealing from the store. I prefer self checkout personally but it will be interesting to see what technology they use to bring it back.
Waiting for a self-checkout is a hell lot more annoying if you're just buying a couple of items. The staffs are real fast at checkout you out when you're buying only a couple of items.
So am I going to get customer service now?
What about the wally on Rio bravo and coors? Gotta remodel that one too.......
Ppl need jobs, why do we need robot's thinking for us, all day long? Lol.. When using self checkout you still have to wait! if you encounter an error for the attendant to correct! That still takes time, while they are bouncing all over the place till they get to you! How is that quicker? Possibly, opening 3 lanes for Ppl that have 20 items or less they should try that for a period of time,. If it doesn't have the amount of Ppl for the fast checkout then go to 2 lanes. Same goes for the larger purchases & the other checkouts, add 5 lanes try that out, if not go to 4 lanes. Imo also, monitoring slow cashier's would be ideal, as well. Not all older register operator's are slow, I've seen some younger cashiers go slow, as if they are getting paid by the day. Ppl have other things in their daily agendas to attend too. If you want frozen food separately from other items why not just ask? Their are also, good older adults and young cashier's, don't get me wrong! just saying.
Its so nice going into stores without armed gaurds and everything behind lock and key....shit i was dreaming
😂😂.
If your a thief, you will be upset. Or, in the main stream media.
I'm 100% sure they did this due to the huge amounts of theft taking place however, at my local Walmart, the self check outs have staff standing around watching everyone check out their items. When I asked why are these people standing around watching instead of actually doing the job of checking out customers the response was that the company pays them to look at their phones while you check out to see if you're stealing!! WTF?? If you don't want everyone stealing put back the actual check out stands with live cashiers, that'll cut down on theft... duh!!!
The problem is staff retention. If they can't keep employees, then waiting in long checkout lines because they have no cashier's also hurts their bottom line when people stop shopping there because of it.
Good! Hate them! I always have a full cart,want a cashier! More cashier's not self checkout out,they need their jobs too!
Remind me again why the one on Zuni shut down.... Citizens should be allowed to deal with thieves however they see fit. Personally I see them as nuisance animals
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I would like to see more of that here in TN.
I never liked self-checkout. They don't give you a discount for doing the employee's rightful work, and that never felt right with me. It's especially annoying if you have a lot of produce to look up and weigh. For fewer items, how about an Express Lane for 10 or fewer items now that they have cashiers?
C'mon Walmart, just say the truth. Shoplifting at the self checkouts is hurting the profit margins.
Personally, I will NEVER self checkout. Also, if I get to the front of the store and no cashiers are open forcing you to self-check I just leave my basket right there and walk out -- I will NEVER self checkout. Some stores converted 100% to self check and I simply wont go.
But it seems wise to leave the option open for those weirdo's who do like to do the stores work for them. :) (my wife is one of those weirdo's she loves it. I always ask is she restocked the shelves as well before she left!)
You're of the opinion that minimum wage child labor is a key aspect to the grocery shopping experience then?
@@Robohazrad Is adulting too hard for you and you just can't pull it off? Poor thing. :(
Do you want to put on your big girl panties and try again - maybe act like an adult this time and have a normal conversation?
You realize that leaving a cart full of groceries will now have an associate that probably would have been on a register now delayed to put back all that stuff.
At my Walmart, the only one in the entire county, people aren't trained on how to do anything so I was ecstatic when we got self checkout machines. I no longer have some dumbass putting my food in a bag with motor oil. Yes, that really happened to me, I'm not making it up. As soon as I saw the kid do it I made him stop bagging my purchases, made the cashier pause in ringing anything else up until I'd gone through every bag I'd not watched due to talking to my husband. People don't care about poisoning others so if doing it myself to make sure my family doesn't get sick makes me a freak then so be it. At least I'm not driving prices up by leaving behind things the store is forced to write off because some fool walked away from a cart with refrigerator items just because he isn't happy about something others like. You owe everyone grocery money!
@@markgutierez9922 "that probably would have been on a register now delayed to put back"
Catch -22 - if there had been on cashier duty I would not have left the cart.
I WILL NOT SELF-CHECKOUT. I won't unload the trucks or restock the shelves either. If you don't have somone to check me out that is poor managment and poor managment is not my fault.
Historically, the "speedy" checkouts at Walmart are anything but.
Wow does that mean EVERY checkout will STAY open now????
I Like Walmart's Self Checkout But I Don't Like Their New Self Checkout Screen
I’m glad that they are getting rid of them. They should get rid of all them. I don’t work for Walmart. That’s their job to do that
Theft pay a huge role and people are shopping at stores with no self checkout.
Schedule a pick up 😂 Way easier!
While we're at it we need a class action lawsuit against Walmart for intentionally leaving the machines without the ability to accept cash, a legal form of tender. At my local Walmarts they all have about 30 self check outs with maybe one "accepting cash" while the others say "card only", it's illegal for a business to refuse cash as payment and Walmart is refusing to allow these machines to accept cash because it requires a staff member to fill the machines throughout the day.
Private businesses actually do not have to accept cash. “For all debts, public and private” means paying a debt is already owed. For example, a coffee shop does not have to accept cash because you didn’t already drink the coffee, if you did then you would owe a debt and they would have to accept cash. But since you are paying for coffee you have not consumed yet, it is therefore not a debt (per law) and your cash does not have to be accepted
Also, privately owned corporations do not have to accept cash either. They are under no legal obligation to do so unless mandated by local or state ordinance
Self-Checkout equals *free* labor for stores.
People steal
thieves is the real deal
Retail theft at a all time high those thuggalonians manipulated the shit out of Walmart.
My local Walmarts closed all self checkout.
I feel like I am suspected of stealing!
Not happy!
I suppose the change was made for the EMPLOYEE and BUYER, and has nothing to do with Thieves😂
It's not just here Walmart is doing it, but everywhere. Self checkouts costed the company a lot, and costed them a lot to maintain, many never even worked properly. So sure theft is somewhat a problem, but maintaining them, and having a full IT team is the main cause as it costs a lot.
It doesn’t cost that much to operate them (that’s the main purpose behind them) and there isn’t an “IT team” behind them. It’s a way to have less employees because the customers have doing it themselves.
If they get rid of self check they better have a lot more lanes open
Have a 5 items or less line and a million items or more lane, definitely would be faster just to get through sloppy Walmart.
Good luck when cashiers calls out
Get it everywhere!
I hate standing in line especially behind a woman that has two cart falls of baby clothes. It makes me laugh that at Carlisle they put back a hundred checks stands, but in about a month they will only have about three open at a time. Besides they tried that already and it doesn't work because the employees don't show up especially on Friday and Saturdays. I've checked groceries for a living and it was the worst job I ever had. Employees say it's because shop lifting. I think it has nothing to do with that. Managers have to come up with an excuse for their bad managing skills. They have to blame someone else. Why do you need all those checks stands if you're only going to have 3 open at a time.
I agree with the changes
Prices will now go up again because of new equipment and they still won't open all the cashier lanes....
Wish I just had a home, so I could order in, instead of having to stock up my company semi all the time. Sick of this whole bullshit. Hate having to deal with people, any which way -
and being prejudged and accused, for *actually* buying a whole lot of crap.
Of course theft is a reason a big part of it probly 75%....i was just in a Walmart...it used to have 30+ checkout lanes now they have 8 and not a one of them had a cashier in attendance but they have 16+ self checkouts and i counted 8 people just standing around not really doing anything except talking or being totally absorbed into their phones ....the so-called greeter didnt even look up from her phone to acknowledge anybody coming in or going out
Why can't they figure out a workable compromise for pete sake. How about a 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 ratio of cashiers to self check-out? It really doesn't have to be all or nothing!
You know it’s to stop theft. Be honest and just say why you did it
You can blame barcode switches for that and people that don’t scan their items and walk out the door
I hate those self-checkouts anyways. I feel like I should get a 5% - 10% discount for ringing up my own groceries and bagging them. As an Autistic Person I struggle with employment and using computer systems that I don't know how they work when they change with every update. I expect things to work the same every time. When people ask me where I work I talk about things that I'm interested in. When they push the issue I tell them I work at Walmart as a cashier and sacker......when I go grocery shopping.
Great move Walmart!!
Yes cuts down on theft so we can leave the stores open
Newly refurbished Galesburg, Illinois Wal-Mart has OVER TWENTY FIVE "SELF CHECK-OUT LANES! JUST TWO EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE LANES! (Galesburg, Illinois does NOT HAVE THE HIGH CRIME OF "ALA-TURKEY" NEW MEXICO! 😂🙀😼
Some of us really don't want to interact with other people, especially at Walmart. Glad my Walmart still has self checkout and vehicle pickup options.
Everyone's talking about theft but fails to realize that people with sensory issues and invisible disabilities need those self-checkouts.
I have invisible disabilities and Sensory disorder. I rather have human cashier. I shop when it's less people.
I have invisible disabilities I rather have a cashier. It's so much easier, less worry.
@@sherriemyles2776but yall don't talk and people with disabilities scare the shit out of me.
@@kawaiipie5475 We do talk and go see a therapist.
“I hate self checkouts”
Hey, so what’s it actually like to drop out of school after 5th grade?
Some surgeons who can save your life don't know how to change a flat tire. Not knowing how do do something has no bearing on a persons education.
That's for the thieves at the loser Walmart's... try that in Cottonwood and you get put down to the ground.. and if you're unhappy with it and move out of the ghetto
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I DONT WORK AT WALMART!!!! so why should I have to check myself out??
Finally.