Of course, at Wal-Mart it’s always about money. Only the Neighborhood Markets where I live have self-check, not the Wal-Mart Super Money Sucker stores.

Wal-Mart only has self-check where it’s convenient for them.

In the Wal-Mart Super Money Sucker stores, the powers-that-be post those older women at the doors to verify your ticket. Most of the time, I refuse to show them my ticket. Never happens in any other store.

At first I refused to do self-check in Little Wal-Mart cuz I knew they’d start accusing me of shoplifting.

But it was sooo easy, so I did self-check. But some profitable things aren’t self-checkable, like tracfone cards.

In the closet little Wal-Mart to me, it finally happened. I got hassled on my way out about the Coke and Fritoes I’d been snacking on, did I have a receipt?

I whipped out my Family Dollar receipt, and blasted ‘em with my speech about their suspicions and told them no more self-check for me.

Then I faxed the manager and told him that if his employees had time to hassle people about tickets then they had time to do customer service: unload baskets, ring them up, and carry groceries out. Of course I never heard a word. And no more self-check for me.

My little Wally World is losing money to a newly opened Hispanic grocer that has a lovely store and real cashiers, so now they start drilling people who go through self-check.

I really shouldn’t go back to that little Wally World, but I have. I will go through the register and take plenty of the cashier’s time. Maybe I’ll start asking the manager all kinds of questions about products too.

In a perfect world, everyone who reads this post will also start forcing Wally World to work for their money.

They put REAL people out of work, they go wrong.

Its all about saving money for the Stores.

Self checkouts either check the size of the item you scan while it’s on the belt, or the weight once it’s bagged. When you scan produce, it clearly announces what you’ve purchased (”move your BANANAS to the belt”). From what I’ve seen, Walmart has removed self checkouts from some stores, but some still have them. At one store I was in recently, they seemed to be a newer type- and when I walked past the attendant’s stand, I saw that they have a monitor with a split screen showing a view directly overhead of each of the four self checkouts. They can see exactly what you’re scanning.

I use them for those embarrassing purchases, and because even a buggy machine is better than the average Walmart human employee. At least the machine can’t give you an attitude.

At first when we installed the self checkouts they were ok. The fact is that everyone believes we have fired people like other companies due to these machines, but we have not. However, I always hear customers complaining to me about them. I have been arguing with the management at my store to get rid of them, but they won’t because it’s the corporate office’s decision. I have told upper management that the customers hate them and that people are willing to leave the store and not buy anything because of them. I am trying to fight for the customers, but no one will listen. If you want to get rid of self checkouts at IKEA, complain to the corp offices, not the local stores because they have no say in that decision.

Needless to say, three of the items I was purchasing had bar codes, but would not scan.Two were eventually scanned by the supervising cashier. One item, an exhaust fan cover, would not scan even after the human cashier came to help. I had to purchase my things, step aside and wait 20 minutes for the cashier to get someone in tht department to bring another of the same item to the register. 20 minutes!

The previous week, the same thing happened with other small items, previous to that, I again had the same problem with the self checkout refusing to read the bar code, nd please don’t insult me by implying that I don’t know how to use them. I use them elsewhere and don’t seem to run into these issues quite so frequently. So to save myself the frustration, I will shop at Lowes or True Value. But not Home Depot. And a word to those who profess to be Home Depot employees, do you really think its a wise thing to insult your customer base? As you spew your comments, remember it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work t Home Depot. In fact, until very recently, Home Depot was one of the few companies in this country to regularly hire released felons. That said, the bar for hiring expectations doesn’t get much lower.

I’m a 28 year old professional who makes about 35,000 a year, happily married.

I HATE interacting with cashiers who often make comments about how I’m buying. I tend to buy 5-10 of one item when I find a good deal on it but doing so almost ALWAYS gets me a strange look from the cashier. A “BOY IS THIS GUY STRANGE” look. I get sick of it which is why I LOVE being able to buy what I need WITHOUT dealing with the annoying cashier and his/her annoying personality along with it.

I pray that one day FAST FOOD will become self service with self checkout, for now I can only dream.

Also as mentioned above it is nice to buy the unmentionables you’d prefer no one see but you. And I find more and more that a lot of the cashiers are either imcompetent, try to make too much convo, and/or are mean.