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Or just anyone who likes the convenience (startrek.website)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

With normal checkout the customer is still the one putting groceries on the belt, and in most cases putting the bags back into the cart. Hell, at Aldi's you have to bag the shit yourself anyways.

I don't see how "scan and bag" is any more intensive than "place everything on belt(which is annoying tetris when you have lots of shit), stand around waiting for cashier to scan and bag".

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Aldi backs up that tradeoff with commensurately lower prices, though.

    "intensive" isn't the right term here, IMO. Pushing me to do the cashier work via self-checkout is more effort than what I do at Aldi. It doesn't need to be "carry this pallet across the Grand Canyon" to be objectionable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    And the cashier is probably going to screw up the bagging. Does the ice cream go in the insulated re-usable bag, or does it go in a regular bag next to the room temperature canned goods? Pretty good chance it goes into the uninsulated bag, the tomatoes end up in the insulated bag with the milk, etc.

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