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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's not an apples to apples comparison. I am buying a single thing at a pump: fuel. I boop my card. I stick nozzle in hole. I pull lever until it stops. Vending machines? Second verse same as the first. I boop card. I push button. I take chippies, I walk away. Vending machines specifically are purpose-built for self-service.

I spend maybe 30 seconds to 3 minutes at these things. The only work I do is tapping my payment and pressing a button or two. Groceries are a whole different animal. It's scanning, weighing, coding, bagging, loading, and paying. It's a fuckton more involvement by the customer. I don't think you can in good faith compare self-checkout to a vending machine.

The business is incentivized to trick you into performing labor for them. Part of the cost of my groceries is for someone to have a job doing that. If I'm gonna do that labor for the store, I should get an employee discount, at least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

scan as you cart and self checkout is like the others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think you can in good faith compare...

Ooh, that's just one of my pet peeves. Such a stupid fucking phrase. The only way to know if you "can't compare" two things is to do a comparison between them and come to the conclusion that the two things are very different. I can compare self checkout to a kumquat if I want to.

Now for some actually useful conversation, let's compare number of steps for vending machine vs self checkout (since that's the closer of my two examples).

Vending machine:

  • insert payment
  • push button to select items
  • pick up item
  • repeat all steps until you have the number of items desired

Self checkout:

  • scan item or place item on scanner/scale and push buttons for item type. This only counts as one step, because you are never doing both to the same item
  • repeat first step until you have all items desired
  • insert payment
  • pick up items

It's the same steps in a different order.