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[–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Faster, because real cashiers have strategies like item x 6, and the authority/passcode to use them. And because they do it all day they have muscle memory working for them. We look at a head of lettuce and my brain says "romaine" or "frisee" but their brain says"5046" or whatever the right code is. Or rather it tells their fingers to type the code without interrupting the more important things they're actually thinking.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's one way of looking at it, and I respect it, BUT also think that self-checkouts are a way of eliminating jobs: stores just want to have fewer employees and more benefit. I avoid self-checkout not for convenience, but because I don't want to contribute to the destruction of jobs.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You're absolutely right about that point.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    I believe the goal should be to improve these worker's conditions. Make checkout work as comfortable as possible, promote them taking turns and switching tasks so they don't have to be doing just checkout for 8 hours.

    Instead of removing the job, make it less annoying.

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