Do it yourself supermarket checkouts

[bamboo]

Of course we are told no one will lose their jobs...that's what they said about ATMs too ~ and the bank has a lot less tellers now than they did in the 80s.
Save-On, Home Depot and Wal-Mart want me to do all the work so they can save money and then tell me it's for my convenience
I think maybe they've all gotten a little too big box

I suppose soon people will be making their own burgers at McDonald's too and be told - so it can be 'just the way they like them' or something witty like that.
We are constantly being told 'machines' do it better with smaller margin for error and they are more efficient..but we are HUMAN. We need to interact with humans!!

exactly... can you go to stripper bar and let machine stripping?

sux man, i wish back the old days, people shop in public market, like "Pike Place public market". u know? those fresh make tofu, vegetable trade in public market instead of Sams Club.

i am not going to have a date with uncle Sam in a big box every time when i just wanna buy fresh food.

[shara]

Times are changing. Yes there will be less jobs in that area but what about the people that design and maintain this equipment? There will be more demand for those types of jobs. And it will provide better customer service during 'rushes' etc.

[Nostradama]

sux man, i wish back the old days, people shop in public market, like "Pike Place public market". u know? those fresh make tofu, vegetable trade in public market instead of Sams Club.

There's no place quite like the Pike Place Market in Seattle. The best selection of fresh fish I've ever seen in my life, and all the other stuff, too. I still have a sweatshirt from there that says "Seattle Rain Festival: Jan 1 to Dec 31." And I have a picture of myself sitting on the bronze (?) pig. As I remember it, her name is Chloe, but I might be wrong.

[Nostradama]

I've worked as a cashier in four different stores and never had a nice cushy mat. We had a few spindly ones at one store. They had no grip and slid all over and were useless. The other ones make such a difference.

Wow! The one I was standing on was just perfection. But it's possible that it might have been in the Seattle suburb Safeway that I used to shop in. Maybe it wasn't even in Canada.

[shara]

Wow! The one I was standing on was just perfection. But it's possible that it might have been in the Seattle suburb Safeway that I used to shop in. Maybe it wasn't even in Canada.

Oh there are nice mats. I just never had one lol

[Nostradama]

Of course we are told no one will lose their jobs...that's what they said about ATMs too ~ and the bank has a lot less tellers now than they did in the 80s.

I remember when the downtown Bank of Montreal went teller-less. It was just down from where Lindsay's Stationery was before the convention centre went in. If you walked in there, there was, as I remember it, just a wall full of ATMs. Then the branch was closed down completely. Then the HSBC went. I think the only bank in that area now is the Scotia Bank on Commercial. Am I right?

[Nostradama]

Times are changing. Yes there will be less jobs in that area but what about the people that design and maintain this equipment? There will be more demand for those types of jobs. And it will provide better customer service during 'rushes' etc.

The problem with that is that the numbers look good, because sometimes they balance out, but it's the people I worry about. It's not going to be laid-off supermarket checkers and bank tellers who are the same people who are going to be designing and maintaining the equipment. It's an absolute tragedy for a person to lose a job, especially a middle-aged single mom with kids to support, who's maybe been working at the same job for years and years.

[shara]

The problem with that is that the numbers look good, because sometimes they balance out, but it's the people I worry about. It's not going to be laid-off supermarket checkers and bank tellers who are the same people who are going to be designing and maintaining the equipment. It's an absolute tragedy for a person to lose a job, especially a middle-aged single mom with kids to support, who's maybe been working at the same job for years and years.

Yeah you are definitely right. It does affect people on an individual level. I only meant that things are different and over time people will adjust. Mom's are already tapping into different job markets then they have in the past.

[Geoff]

They have it at the Saanich Plaza Save On near where I live. I am not a fan of them. I gave them a try, and just said hell with it. Go old school, and to an actual person to pay. I still shop at Save On, but when I go there it is to an actual person to pay.

[Nostradama]

They have it at the Saanich Plaza Save On near where I live. I am not a fan of them. I gave them a try, and just said hell with it. Go old school, and to an actual person to pay. I still shop at Save On, but when I go there it is to an actual person to pay.

I wouldn't want to run a whole cartload of groceries through one of them, but if there are long lines and I only have five or six items, I'd use them, which is what happened. Of course, I'm an "old school" fogey, trying to catch up with the times.