Self checkouts in Aldi


I find them a pain I'm the arse, as they never scan properly then if you get audited at the till is another pain. I don't think they're any faster but more stressful.


Sounds like lidl that.

There lots faster imo. Lucky if I get checked once every 20 shops and even then it takes a minute for then to check. The self scan at the checkout can be a pain but very rare I've had bother with the scanning as you walk round contraception
 
About time, they've only ever got one or two tills open whenever I'm in with queues right up the aisle
 
Totally agree. Personally never use the self scan thing. It's just a way of using less staff and saving money for the massive companies who make huge profits year on year.

Also a way of serving more people quicker, as can fit more tills in same space. Therefore a better service.
 
Self-checkout work well in my local Co-op. I only ever have a couple of things to buy but there's always a queue at the checkout for people buying cigarettes and lottery tickets (so much for a cost of living crisis!). Go straight to the self-serve one and I'm done in seconds.
 
Not sure if Aldi or Lidl, but the big new one in Peterlee had the self checkout, but no staff working on them. So when something needed staff to check/fix, you had to wait for an eternity for them to finish with the customer on the main till, and leave and walk over to you.
It was a disaster.


They took them out rather than fix the problem!
Same with the one near me. I asked one of the staff where they self-serve checkouts had gone and they mumbled shoplifters. Apparently as there were no staff present, people just wandered off without paying.
 
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Should we get rid of every modern convenience that eliminates a job? I assume you draw the line somewhere.

If you and others stopped driving to work, you’d create jobs for bus drivers.

Go back to switchboard operators for every time you wanted to make a call. Stop sending emails to keep typists and couriers in a job. Even get rid of tractors so farms had to employ hundreds of people to plant and pick crops.

Automation doesn't reduce employment. It just reduces the number which are required for low skill tedious work and frees them to do something more productive and interesting with their lives.
 
Should we get rid of every modern convenience that eliminates a job? I assume you draw the line somewhere.

If you and others stopped driving to work, you’d create jobs for bus drivers.
I get the train to work ironically considering I drove trains. These self serve things are just a way for big companies to cut down on workforce and wages and denying people a wage. I don't use them at all
 
Go back to switchboard operators for every time you wanted to make a call. Stop sending emails to keep typists and couriers in a job. Even get rid of tractors so farms had to employ hundreds of people to plant and pick crops.

Automation doesn't reduce employment. It just reduces the number which are required for low skill tedious work and frees them to do something more productive and interesting with their lives.

I broadly agree with you. I don’t think @Iballistic George is wrong either, jobs may well be eliminated but that’s technological progress. That’s happened for centuries.

I get the train to work ironically considering I drove trains. These self serve things are just a way for big companies to cut down on workforce and wages and denying people a wage. I don't use them at all

I’m sure they are a way to increase profit, yes. So are plenty of other things, including some of the services you surely use on a day to day basis.

You’re welcome of course to choose where and how you shop and all power to you, but if everyone took your attitude we’d still be using operators to place telephone calls, sending letters instead of emails, ploughing fields by hand etc, exactly as @Darlo1973 says.

So why do you draw the line at self-checkouts?
 

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