My only regret is that I didn’t steal more shit from self checkouts. I’ll be spending as much quality time with the remaining ones as I can before they get taken away too.
I remember people saying this would be permanent because of the push for a $15 minimum wage.
We salute our brave shoplifters for combating the destruction of service workers’ livelihoods
Steal our labor we steal your shit, seems fair to me 🤷
It’s not that there is self-checkout, it’s that DG tends to keep staff very low in their stores. Sometimes you can walk in and not see a single employee, even when you go to checkout. They want their cashiers to do everything. It’s a great target for shoplifting but not because of self-checkout.
they should change their name to Dollar Optional
Dollar Corporal
Dollar Civilian Contractor with Delusions of Grandeur
wow, sorry I was so crappy at being my own cashier, but it’s not like you guys were paying me or providing training.
when I scan my whole meal and it comes up as a single $1.35 side of cole slaw, that’s not my fault or my problem.
Yeah it’s really weird how my 2lbs of pecans scanned as cheap cornmeal and the rotisserie chicken from the salad bar scanned as a red onion. Super strange
Self check out work well if you are just buying 5 or less items and had no vegetables or something like that.
I use my ebike to move around and always cross a supermarket with self check out on my way back home from work and I stop there once or twice a week to buy some things missing. I’m in out in 10 minutes, and using the self check out I don’t need to wait in a queue for a cashier.
Boy oh boy I sure hope they start hiring more checkout workers instead of laying them off every month so that they have to pay less people
Support your local store workers by stealing as much as you can using self-checkout machines.
I stopped buying organic fruits and vegetables. I still bring them home and eat them, I’m just not paying organic prices
oh no! you’re probably accidentally entering the wrong plu code by accident! these stores should hire someone properly trained to stand next to each self-checkout machine to make sure customers are using them correctly.
Motherfuckers had to
that it costs more to have self-checkout than to have cashiers.Obviously, they aren’t going to pay their returning cashiers a living wage as evidenced by the following:
But despite the shift back toward human cashiers, [Claire Tassin, a retail and e-commerce analyst at Morning Consult] doesn’t expect shoppers to have to pay more. “Retailers know consumers are pretty pressed for prices. So I don’t think this will make a massive, meaningful difference in consumer prices” at the moment, she said.
This also shows how fake prices are. They can handle their costs going up (paying more workers) without increasing prices because they know that people can’t afford groceries right now.
I doubt they’re even losing that much, it’s probably paranoia and projection.
Most loss is internal.
Source: reading up on it, and having worked in retail. The stuff I saw…
Full support for workers paying themselves what they deserve
Love throwing away entire pallets of milk and bread and other edible foods because no one is buying them and no one else can have it. These store and company owners deserve to be killed.
most theft is internal but it’s the company stealing from the employees and not the other way round.
when i first worked as a grocery store cashier my manager consistently robbed me of the daily two 15 min paid breaks i was supposed to get
she also made me the only worker at the front in the morning, so i was running back and forth between my checkout lane and helping demeaning old people at self-checkout. soul crushing anxiety type shit
I remember my brief time at Target, my manager hated me but he couldn’t get rid of me because of how short staffed we were. One time I remember I was walking towards customer service from a checkout lane, and he started yelling at me to run, and when I kept walking at a totally normal pace he got literally red-in-the-face angry and wrote me up for it.
Then they wanted to do the meeting where I signed the writeup after my shift was over. LMAO shoulda said something fifteen minutes ago - I already punched out and nothing short of a gun to my head will stop me from going to my car right now. Didn’t get fired like I really thought I was going to but I did stop showing up to that job unannounced when I got something better a couple months later.
smh people don’t want to work for free anymore
thesis: cashiers are expensive
antithesis: self-checkout machines are annoying to use and constantly result in errors, making customers resentful of the entire process and having labor costs offloaded onto them. spiteful customers are prone to shoplifting.
synthesis: fuck! security guards are also expensive!
Sorry, I’ve gotten so used to shoplifting that I’m not going back to paying
Every single fucking time i go into harris teeter i hear the self checkout attendant on the intercom trying to scare people into not shoplifting. “Security scan and record all sections” i know that’s fucking fake dummy I used to work retail too. It’s still annoying and idk if they’re doing it for me or
