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   valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 10:20:11 JST valhalla

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   • George Penney

   @libroraptor @anne_twain @Gustodon @georgepenney where I live we've never had packers at the supermarkets: you were always supposed to take stuff out of your cart and put them where staff would scan them and move them to another area where you could pick it back up and put into your bags.

   in this context, self-checkout with a scanner that you carry through the store is pretty convenient, since it gives plenty of time to pack things without being in a hurry (and then you can pay at a human-staffed checkout, and have the best of both worlds.

   Self-checkout at the shop exit with a queue and everything is the worst.

   (Maybe it's because I'm not used to them, but the idea of having somebody else pack my groceries sounds really strange: they may be good at packing things in a safe way, but they can't know that I want stuff divided into different bags depending on where in the house they go, and stuff like that)

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     Alistair K (libroraptor@mastodon.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 10:20:13 JST Alistair K

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     • George Penney

     @anne_twain @Gustodon @georgepenney We had this in when we lived in the US and liked it. We have it at Pak n Save here and like it. It's so much better to have all of your shopping packed well rather than triple-handled and packed poorly! And much better than self checkouts because the stupid thing isn't always yelling at you to compensate for its own incompetence.

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     ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘 (anne_twain@theblower.au)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 10:20:16 JST ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘

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     • George Penney

     @Gustodon @georgepenney One of Australia's supermarket giants, Woolworths, is trialling a system where a scanner is actually fixed to your trolley. 🙄 You have to collect the scanner first, using the company's RFID card.

     I'm sure we'll all be rushing to do that.

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     Ω 🌍 Gus Posey (gustodon@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 10:20:21 JST Ω 🌍 Gus Posey

     • George Penney

     @georgepenney Self checkout is one of our society's greatest failures. Every one of those machines deserves thirty seconds of sustained gunfire.