Comment on Do all American stores have greeters?
IWW4@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
No, the vast majority never did that and now most American Stores barely have enough staff to run the registers.
Comment on Do all American stores have greeters?
IWW4@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
No, the vast majority never did that and now most American Stores barely have enough staff to run the registers.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 5 hours ago
Lol same here in the UK. If you go into the big supermarket chains like Tesco, Sainsburys and Asda, there are sometimes a whole bunch of registers but only 1 or 2 of them have a human working on them. The rest just sit there as a reminder that human jobs are being replaced by self checkouts.
Even where I work, our company does absolutely anything it can to avoid having to pay people, so we’re often understaffed and overworked.
Tangent over 😅
IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
The most absurd part is the stores haven’t done anything to embrace self checkout. They have not changed the carts to help the checkout process, they have not decreased the number of unused registers, and many of them have not even made the self checkout area bigger.
In the states we have a big box hardware store called Home Depot and they really have done a great job with the self checkout process. I have not been in a single grocery store that has.