The thing I really hate about it is that where I live, they don’t have bags at the self checkout. Cuz you know, someone might steal a fucking plastic bag. 🙄
Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At Costco it’s great minus the membership checks. Thanks this was a quick process, now let me stop and take my card out so you can see I’m not stealing deals.
Walmart, fuck you hire more cashier’s why am I waiting 10 minutes to checkout at self checkout when you have 50 closed fucking lanes!
revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
swan_pr@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Where I live (Montréal, Canada) plastic bags are banned everywhere. You either bring your own or buy a reusable at the cash. Some places (like grocery stores) also sell paper bags. You get used to it. If you have a car you leave a bunch of reusables in the trunk, if you don’t you just have to remember to bring one with you. The also sell some super thin ones you can carry in your pockets that are sturdy and large enough for a small run at the grocery store.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The only thing I’d hate about that, is if they don’t have a recyclable option and you always have to buy the reusable ones. At some point they just become garbage because you forgot them for the last 20 trips, and who needs 100 reusable bags?
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have about what, five reusable bags. One is always in the backpack to use both as a basket replacement in case the supermarket doesn’t have any (or they’re all at the exit and none at the entry), or as overflow container for the backpack, one is generally holding onions and yet another potatoes (both hanging), that leaves – yep, one as backup and the awkward small one is stuffed with three dirty dish towels waiting for hot wash to accumulate.
Do consider cloth bags simply because it’s easy to actually give enough of a fuck about them, just like you give a fuck about a t-shirt. Oh and keeping potatoes and onions in plastic would likely not end well. The only plastic bags I buy are bin liners.
If you’re shopping with a car the standard over here is to have a fold-up box in your boot.
swan_pr@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I agree. I have a drawer full and a bunch in my car. I see a lot of them for sale for a buck at thrift stores, it’s kind of funny and sad.
downhomechunk@midwest.social 11 months ago
Or how about you forgot to bring them in with you but don’t realize it until everything is unloaded on the conveyor?
revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
It’s not that I care what they’re made of. Here they’re required to charge 10¢/bag. I would happily take a paper bag. The thing I don’t like is being treated like an extremely petty criminal.
As an aide though, everything I’ve read supports the conclusion that the bag bans only lead to more waste. IIRC, a generous estimate would mean you need to reuse a bag at least 20x in order to break even on resource usage… Which basically never happens. It’s an excellent example of a feel good solution that sounds good until you run the numbers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That said, I’d be perfectly happy to see us eliminate almost all uses of disposable plastics.
ReallyKinda@kbin.social 11 months ago
I like the aldi model with no bags—when you forget a bag you look for an empty box. Not ideal for people who walked though.
swan_pr@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s different here (at Walmart at least), they leave all their reusable bags at the self checkout where you can just buy them. But there is a lot of staff and the area is like a bullpen, so there is only one exit and there are employees looking at the carts’ contents.
As for the bags, for sure it’s a contentious topic. And I agree with you. As I mentioned in another reply, I see a lot of the sturdier reusable bags for sale at thrift store, they have to roll them up and put them in a bin they have so many…
Pandantic@midwest.social 11 months ago
IIRC, a generous estimate would mean you need to reuse a bag at least 20x in order to break even on resource usage… Which basically never happens.
I’ve definitely used my reusable bags more than 20 times. Why don’t people use them more than 20 times?
raynethackery@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In the before times, when you could still find baggers at checkouts, paper bags were provided. I know the cost was figured in to the prices but it is B.S. that they now charge for them.
Romanmir@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Neverminding that we have to scan the cards to even begin scanning the soon to be our stuff.
Wahots@pawb.social 11 months ago
The Costco self checkouts can only do a certain amount of weight per square inch before they shit the bed. Which is bad, because it’s costco. Unloading the entire shelf while you haven’t paid can’t be done, so you have to scan, hit the weight limit, pay, unload, then scan and load the shelf again…and then pay again. Idiotic design that multiplies the wait times considerably, lol.
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I only use them if I’m carrying my items in my hands.
FapFlop@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My Costco has had “self checkout” for about a year now. There’s a Costco employee that waves you over and scans all your items. I really don’t get it.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I straight up said this the last time I was there to one of the managers watching the self checkout after I heard them complaining about the long ass line. Maybe if you actually turned the other 20 lanes on instead of only having 3 the lines would go by quicker, ya dumbasses.
PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You expect them to pull 20 extra people put of their ass?
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If they offered a living wage it wouldn’t be a problem. They can afford it, without raising prices.
themurphy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No no no no no, HOW could they afford that?
Tell me how they could afford it as a giant multi billion dollar company.
It’s not even possible to pull out billions to shareholders and CEO’s each year if they did that.
Why don’t anyone ever think about the poor ultra rich?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Whether they have them all open or just 3, they still only have 2 or 3 employees watching over it all.
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Probably some power-mad manager saying “employees must get up early to learn discipline”.