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My insistence on paying cash for in-person purchases means that I can't—and won't—shop at a store that only offers self-checkouts. I haven't come across any yet in this neck of the woods that don't have at least one cashier, but if I did, chances are good that I'd put the goods down and walk out without buying.
I do understand, however, that most people aren't willing to make that level of sacrifice just to keep the credit card companies from tracking part of their purchase history.
Do yours not take cash at self checkout? That seems really odd to me.
I have yet to encounter one that does, but since I avoid self-checkouts in the first place, that doesn't mean that they don't exist.
I still pay cash quite a bit, i like to avoid tracking to piss off the vultures. Also, i'd rather keep the money they would make from transaction fees.
We have Interac in Canada, which don't use credit card debit systems, and pre-date them by like 20 years
I'm aware (I live in one of the more thinly-populated parts of Ontario). Interac just allows the bank to do the tracking instead of the credit card company, which is a distinction without a difference as far as I'm concerned. It's the act of linking purchase to identity that I object to.
If self check is too hard to use, just take the items for free
I got into a situation where a cashier came to debug an issue and she wasn't able to.
It just ended up with her letting me go with the item for free because ''she isn't paid enough to fix this shit''
If I have just a handful of items it's convenient. But one in 20 times I seem to find a way to screw it up - like trying to scan the loyalty card as an item...
Any more than 8 items I'd rather just use a cashier to scan the items for me. But places (like shoppers) don't make it easy at all.
I always use lines with cashiers because:
their jobs will evaporate if people don't use them
self checkout means that you're doing that job FOR FREE for the company
- their jobs will evaporate if people don't use them
I was thinking the same until couple of them screamed at me for not using self checkout. And most of them are not happy with their job. Or life, I am not sure.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
CBC News interviewed several people who said during recent visits to major retailers, they were frustrated to find cashiers weren't available — only self-checkout.
Valcov says he stopped shopping at his local Canadian Tire in June, following several store visits where only the self-checkouts were open and no staff members were available to help him.
VideoMining, a U.S. market research company, analyzed shoppers' checkout habits during 1.2 billion trips to more than 1,000 U.S. grocery stores in 2022.
Sharma says retailers like self-checkout because it reduces labour costs, and that customers are increasingly drawn to the machines to avoid long lines at the cash register.
Retailer Loblaw, which owns pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart, says its policy is to offer customers both self-checkout and cashier options at all times.
In an email to CBC News, Loblaw offered Rayman and Winterburn an apology, and said that it has contacted their local stores to resolve the problem.
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Maybe it's just me, but everytime I use a self checkout I end up doing something wrong and have to wait for an attendant to help me. I usually try to just skip the first few steps and just go right to the cashier.