🌎 "My big issue with self checkouts and ordering kiosks is that the goods didn’t get cheaper when replacing a wage employee with a robot."

 

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[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I love self checkouts. Never a line and much quicker, for me anyway. Noticed this am at the local Walmart Market, they updated them to now recognize fruits and vegetables... so when I put 2 bell peppers on the weight plate, I didn't have to type it in on the screen anymore, the bell pepper options just popped up to select. Only thing I hate about them is when something goes wrong... like wrong price, or you need an override for a gift card... and you can't find help.

 

[TerryP]

I love self checkouts. Never a line and much quicker, for me anyway. Noticed this am at the local Walmart Market, they updated them to now recognize fruits and vegetables... so when I put 2 bell peppers on the weight plate, I didn't have to type it in on the screen anymore, the bell pepper options just popped up to select. Only thing I hate about them is when something goes wrong... like wrong price, or you need an override for a gift card... and you can't find help.

Aight. I'm going to be a Walmart spokesperson again.

W+ - $99 a year; free shipping and delivery.
Walmart app.
(Walmart spend, I'll get to that in a minute.)

In the app you can click on scan and go. So, let's say you have five items. Scan them, in the grocery cart (the real one) and the cart in the app. When your done, both loaded.
Click checkout. You scan a QR code on the screen, click pay, and your done. It'll ask you how many bags, etc.

(Walmart Spend. It's a credit card. I have one where all my Walmart purchases go. Walmart doesn't take Apple or Google pay, if you use them, so it's a bypass with the app and the card.)

So, as an example. I stopped by one the other day to get four items for the mower and some wood chips for the smoker. I scanned them all when I put them in the basket. A few clicks on my phone and I was out the door: all it took was a shot of the QR code. I could have all that shipped free; didn't need it that day. But I wanted to look at their spring plants ...

E.Z.

 

[TerryP]

Not only that, but most humans are pretty terrible at using them. Very, very slow.

This is somewhat true. A LOT of it has to do with eye/hand coordination.

is that the goods didn’t get cheaper when replacing a wage employee with a robot.

Blatantly ignoring the constant raises in minimum wage. IF they were humans ... those prices wouldn't be the same.

 

[Krimson]

I love self checkouts. Never a line and much quicker, for me anyway. Noticed this am at the local Walmart Market, they updated them to now recognize fruits and vegetables... so when I put 2 bell peppers on the weight plate, I didn't have to type it in on the screen anymore, the bell pepper options just popped up to select. Only thing I hate about them is when something goes wrong... like wrong price, or you need an override for a gift card... and you can't find help.

My biggest issue are the plastic bags, I hate trying to open those things

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Aight. I'm going to be a Walmart spokesperson again.

W+ - $99 a year; free shipping and delivery.
Walmart app.
(Walmart spend, I'll get to that in a minute.)

We have it. Used it to fill up this am and save the 5 cents or whatever it is per gallon. I use the scan and go at Sams and bypass the lines, but I don't at WM. Seems faster to just use the checkout, plus sometimes, for some reason the cell service inside the WM's here is shitty and the app won't even respond.

Side note, one reason I had to stop by this am was to pick up a half ham. The ones at Publix were too small. Gonna do a pulled ham this weekend. Been wanting to try one for a while now but haven't taken the time to do it before... will be super easy, just time consuming... but I'll let it go overnight like a pork butt and then finish it in the morning before lunch.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

My biggest issue are the plastic bags, I hate trying to open those things

A trick I learned recently, take your hands and stretch them at the open end (like 4 inches apart), it distorts the plastic and makes it easy to then pull apart.

 

[TerryP]

Side note, one reason I had to stop by this am was to pick up a half ham. The ones at Publix were too small. Gonna do a pulled ham this weekend. Been wanting to try one for a while now but haven't taken the time to do it before... will be super easy, just time consuming... but I'll let it go overnight like a pork butt and then finish it in the morning before lunch.

Oh. Man. (What kind of wood?)

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Oh. Man. (What kind of wood?)

I'm gonna do it on the Traeger so pellets in this case, but I have a maple/cherry mix that I'll more than likely use.