Source: u/Portarossa on Reddit, April 7, 2020.
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‘Unexpected item in bagging area.’
It’s not unexpected, you digital fuck. You literally just told me what it is. It’s right there on the screen. I did the wavy-wave, you did the bleepy-bleep; up until the point where you decided to have an electronic stroke, things were going exactly according to plan. What you mean is that you haven’t been programmed right. Don’t go putting this on me, like I’ve somehow gone out of my way to surprise you. I’ve got places to be, man. I can’t be playing hide-the-actual-salami with the Terminator’s younger, shittier cousin.
Oh, and now you’ve sent for backup. Well done. Now I have to deal with a human person who thinks I’m either an imbecile or a thief for not being able to work what’s effectively a bathroom scale with delusions of grandeur for the fourth time.
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I bring my own bag. I press the “I have my own bag” button. I scan an item. Alarms. “Please wait for an associate.” Wait. Associate toddles over. “Sir next time press the ‘Brought My Own Bag’ button.” Scream internally.
You have to press the “brought my own bag” button, then put the bag on the scales, then let it think about it for about 30 minutes, and then you can start scanning.
I can never be bothered with that, so I you always just put the bag on the floor and transfer all the stuff from the sensor to the bag when I finished
🙃
The self checkout at my local store will get confused and tell you to “remove the unscanned” item, but someone set it up to time out after like 10 seconds and just let you keep scanning.
This is poetry.
Woah dude, when this happens to me the attendant comes over, presses a flurry of buttons and apologizes for the problem.
I mean, yeah, that’s kind of how it is here, but there are usually 12 to 15 self checkouts all being monitored by one person. They’re constantly going from machine to machine doing that, so you’re often stuck waiting for them to get to you. It’s ridiculous on multiple levels.
God damn 😭😭😭
i’ve never even seen a self checkout that does this… it feels like it would be an enormous hassle for the store.
also we’ve had the little hand scanners you bring with you through the store for something like 20 years so i don’t really ever go through the checkout unless it fails to scan my card.
My local supermarket swapped over to a system with no scales, which works fine. Probably running some kinda detection software on their surveillance cams or something, I’d guess. At least scanning goes faster now.
Zero sympathy. Anyone who chooses to use the self-check deserve whatever baloney mishaps might misshapen.
