Grocery Store - VENT

Captain Rhett Butler

Captain Rhett Butler

Driving Instructor
Kroger @ 61/278
There's like 8 cash registers and 1 cashier.... the line was all backed up. They don't even have the 15 items or less express lane any longer. Since I refuse to use self-check, I had to wait and wait and wait.

Why does Kroger management push folks to use self-check? So THEY won't need to hire a cashier? Sorry charlie, I STILL REFUSE to use self check. PLEASE HIRE A FEW MORE CASHIERS.
 
When I was a young man, cashiers were first job types, part time job mom's, and part time job retirees. Now idiots want to make a "living wage" or they are staying home and living off mommy or the taxpayers. Only the retirees seem to still be in the job force. It's hard to find anyone who actually wants to work for a living.
 
I'm holding out too until I'm forced to get my groceries through Amazon or Walmart online. Ring me up honey, I'm in no hurry, got nothing to do but stand here and wait for you. BTW, I've saving what little job you have so you could at least act grateful.
 
Here's what you should do,,, here's what we should all do. Next time you go to the store pick up a bottle of spray disinfectant/cleaner and a roll of paper towels. Go to the self check and immediately start spraying down the entire apparatus,,, really soak it, then proceed to wipe it down with the paper towels, being quite generous with them. When finished, offer the supplies to anyone else who might want use them, or just leave them on top of the register, check out and leave. Maybe they'll get the message.
 
I use self check out often, but typically I don't have a cart full of stuff. When Mrs. Colson go out and buy for the week, we always go through a cashier, but that's partly because Food Depot on Hwy 61 @ Hiram-Sudie doesn't have self check-out. When by myself, I use it mainly so I don't have to interact with a cashier. I don't really dislike people as much as I'm not much of a social person. That's what I hear from my supervisor that our Principal doesn't like about me. But that's fine...I don't like the back stabbing winch anyway. Did I accidentally get off topic? :confused:
 
I don't mind self checkout for a few things, but Home Depot / Kroger and others are trying to push everyone to using it.

They are being awful trusting of the public, esp HD. Most stuff you can't put on the scales, so if the purchaser misses a few things, how are they going to know? I would think losses from people skipping the expensive items would exceed the cost of a cashier or two, but what do I know?
 
Well boys and girls, listen to ole GD and he'll tell you what's going on and what's coming.

We're in a hot economy and employment is above the theoretical full level. Put in layman's terms; there ain't no one let to work who wants to work. Employers are begging for help, in virtually every industry. The trades are really suffering; everyone wants to sit behind a keyboard these days, so manual labor isn't hip anymore. But employers who are in the retail business especially can't get help...or at least no help that is worth having. Fast food is in deep trouble, and the grocery business is too.

Changes are coming, and soon. The big companies are going to technology and automation to replace humans. Mickey Dees has dropped billions over the last couple of years to buy their own automation and robotics companies. You've already seen the kiosks out front, well that's just the beginning. They are already testing fully automated kitchens and even drive thrus. So very soon you'll be buying your Big Macs from computers and robots.

Sadly, this is necessary unless we find more people resources.

They won't be the only one, the other big guys are working on it too. So may as well get used to the self checkouts, because that's just the beginning.
 
I'm afraid you are correct. It's funny, in an Scifi book I read by Harry Harrison, "A Stainless Steel Rat is Born", he describes exactly what you are saying.

Describing the Macswiney's operation:

Operating at high speed around me was the solution to the single problem that faces all fast-food chains. The cost of keeping even the highly underpaid and unskilled employees. They tend to become skilled, then want more money for their work. The answer is to do away with human being completely. (snip)
Everything is mechanized. As the customer speaks his order the required item of food is ejected from the deep-frozen store into a super-voltage radar oven where it is instantly blasted to steamingly edible temperature. These ovens are so powerful that an entire frozen porcuswine can be exploded into steam and greasy particles in twelve microseconds.
Beverages are dispensed with the same lightning speed. By the time a customer has finished speaking, his entire order is waiting. Behind a steel door, of course, until he has paid. The machinery is fully automatic and reliable and rarely touched by human hands.
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This is also part of the reason I've taken a softer line of immigration than many people have. For the ones who are here illegally but have otherwise behaved, we ned to find a way to allow them to make it right, and we also need to streamline legal immigration and make it easier for the good ones to come here.

Why? We need the workers.

We have also got to address the problem with able bodied people on Welfare. We can't afford it, and we need the workers. Sadly, it will take a long time and a lot of money to turn it around. It's been going on so long, many of the people on Welfare are illiterate and have zero job skills. People who are no even capable of holding a job, much less taking care of themselves. But hardly anyone in politics has the courage to tackle this one.
 
The Wallyworld pick-up line is the wave of the future. Order your groceries online, maybe buy that ice cream that keeps popping up while you shop online, pick it all up in 30 minutes or less. Pay extra to have it delivered to your fridge.
 
lotstodo said:
The Wallyworld pick-up line is the wave of the future. Order your groceries online, maybe buy that ice cream that keeps popping up while you shop online, pick it all up in 30 minutes or less. Pay extra to have it delivered to your fridge.
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Yeah my daughter was just hired at the Dallas Walmart as a personal shopper. She will be one of those going around the store to gather groceries for those that order online for pickup. It's sad that they told her they need her for Weekends and Mondays because they cannot get anyone to work during those shifts. @Guard Dad you were saying in another thread about the work force, its crazy that no one will work these jobs. Walmart pays a lot more than most of these places and if someone wants to make a better than average hourly wage, you work when you have to, weekends, nights, etc. If I had to do it, I sure would.
 
I know all of us have our own opinions on self checkout and that is awesome. I use self checkout every time when I do not have that much, but when we get a huge amount of groceries, we always go through a line with a live cashier. The only time I have ever seen no staffed lines open is very late at night.
 
Capn' R. Butler goes grocery shopping.....


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When they start giving me a discount to check out myself...then we can talk. Just like the banks switching over to atms, its all about money. More $$$ for the fat cats at the top. Someone in mgt told me they can’t find enough people to pass the drug tests. I believe that is true for these types of jobs too.
 
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