Dear Woolworths, Countdown, and all other stores that have self-checkout.
You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now.
The lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping
everyone.
I didn’t choose to participate in that nonsense, I had already
filled my cart emptied my cart scanned the itemsrefilled my cartand so I just skipped the exit line and left.
I heard her saying “umm – Excuse me ” as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.
You can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be.
I’m not interested in proving that I did your job for you.
• If you want me to be a cashier with no training then that’s vour problem not mine.
• Keep employing young people and give them job opportunities.
YOU DON’T PAY ME TO SCAN MY OWN SHOPPING.
YOU DON’T GIVE ME STAFF DISCOUNT FOR WORKING FOR YOU.
Signed ….All of us
These are jobs that are needed to have for young and old
Sheree Gausel
Absolutely, You’re standing there doing their fricking job for no payment, all the while under the untrusting gaze of some Karen who probably didn’t get past her2nd year in high school ( It’s always a woman ) and for some reason feeling you are being judged as being guilty of possibly shoplifting.
At the same time the owners of the supermarket are cutting back the number of checkout lanes so you either wait in line or move to the digital version, it’s made even more obvious what the arseholes have in mind by the number of items you can take through the digital checkouts slowly being lifted ( You’re being trained so the owners can raise their already outrageous profits by sacking checkout staff ), In our local P&S it’s recently gone from 12 items to 25, get used to it folks ,one of the WEF WHO NWO subconscious messages sent to us by the plandemic was to get the sheeple ready for long orderly profit boosting ques in the future IMHO.
There are still those who celebrate the rise of the machines. They think its progress and by supporting it they appear edgy futurists who ahead are of the curve.
Bunnings is another firm that seems to be doing away with the checkout operators then you have to wait while the lady at the door goes through your items like a bloody shoplifter FFS. I hate this stage of life. No wonder there are so many in the dole office as there aren’t many jobs about they are capable of. Mitre 10 seem to have lots of staff around to help you with anything you need. Bunnings seem to have very little of staff to help you with anything at all. Unless they are sitting out the back on their so called breaks.
I would not darken the doors of the shithole called mitre 10
Bunnings Mt Roskill is excellent but shifting to self scan is a bit schizophrenic
Bunnings Grey lynn is weak but carries the stock.
Since they cannot touch shoplifters- assault- never let .them check your trolley
Well I’ll have to be the odd man out. The Bunnings I go to in Rongotai are really great. Even the new staff seem to be well trained on where everything is.
Agree about the lack of help from Bunnings staff. The wife and I had to wait for ages to ask a question about a toilet sistern.
BTW, I heard that the reason staff check your receipts on the way out is not because they believe you are stealing but to prevent staff from stealing.
Thats a new one callling your customers “Staff”
After doing their jobs I suppose we are “staff”
Bunnings Dunedin are the worst for staff assistance, they act like they hate customers. I am counting down till bankruptcy implosion.
Yeap, was in there yesterday and waiting for someone to answer our queries. Ended up leaving without purchasing.
Lizziep I Agree about the stage of life thing, many of the people on YSB have seen the best of NZ when they had bugger all and are now witnessing the Worst of NZ when we supposedly have every bloody thing we are told we need yet are living in a declining standard of life.,.YIKES.
And you know it’s real when younger people feel the same way. ,no wonder 10s of thousands are bolting for the door you can’t blame them.
Australia is wall to wall (sea to shining sea) of liebor goo-mint.
Albo has made it bad.
Chairman Dan was merely replaced by another liebor despot.
Not much will change in ao tear zooland under WEF puppet-boy Kluxon.
But hey there is now a supermarket czar who will make it all bedder///
Just like Disinformation czar, Hate hannah
Where in the world is different? Globalism on steroids via covid.
Big corporate have an insidious community crushing ideal. This is why they leapt onto the ice witches no plastic bags decree – cost.
Go small. Dodge any store with self checkout. Bring back tariffs to protect little kiwi manufacturers. Build small business local entrepreneurs by exclusively using them.
I still praise covid for this. It gave me a lead on which shops to avoid. The big covid tyranny companies gave me a black list of shops to avoid for eternity.
Private companies are best. Those without grey boards of directors, enslaved by debt, subservient to ESG and WOKE capital.
About 6 months ago in another town, I wanted to be quick, in just grabbing a couple of things, but the hassle is that some of those self check machines do not accept cash.!
What I found out was that by far the majority of those machines are card only in that shop.
In all that only a couple of those machines would accept cash,
The only good thing is that now my usual super market has taken down the last of its Perspex sheeting on the checkout aisles.
Come on you cash only customers 😉 Wave those $20’s $50’s around 🙂
Use it before we lose it.
Don’t even get me started on so called “help” lines. Called the BNZ the other day to stop my printed statements. Lost the will to live.
..your call is important to us, please continue to hold you are twenty fifth in the queue…
“Your approximate wait time is 5 hours and 40 minutes. You can request a call back which we will ignore…..
With Westpac Business you might get to speak to an “assistant” but when 5.30 chimes the call is disconnected even in mid-sentence.
They’ve ‘upgraded’ their on-line business banking software but it’s as nasty as the previous one and you can’t get any help from them.
Westpac are becoming a poor joke.
Recently phoned a firm that had a privacy breach, so they were inundated.
“You estimated hold time is 743 minutes. To keep your place in the queue, don’t hang up.”
“Lost the will to live”
as it would have to processed under the “Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009” updated April 2023. 🙂
Plus not only the corporates & direct government departments, but also those subcontractor names, but they can use the Government regulations to say you are falling out of government compliance which may need further investigation.
I do AML and CFT checks. It was not that. This was just to stop printed statements on my own account. I couldn’t do it online as I only have a credit card with them and they insist on printed statements..
The tide is turning..
Just as we are getting into self service checkouts at supermarkets, supermarkets overseas are getting out of self service.
Booths are scrapping self service, but they are not the only ones.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/uk-supermarket-booths-scrap-most-self-service-tills-2023-11-10/
Ask for staff discount!
New world nelson had 1 operator checkout open, would have used it till on approach, found the operator to be a mentally ill person, bloke with long nails and hair, lipstick etc, abrupt tun was made to self checkout. Who in their right mind would put that in a customer service position
Or the old Karen who wears a mask…
That’s how they get you to use self checkout.