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| From | "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | aus.cars, aus.tv, aus.politics, aus.computers |
| Subject | Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts |
| Date | 2016-07-27 09:15 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <dvq99eFj0c0U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote >>> Rod Speed wrote >>>> BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote >>>>> Rod Speed wrote >>>>>> felix <me@nothere.invalid> wrote >>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote >>>>>>>> Jeßus <j@j.j> wrote >>>>>>>>> Sandgroper <woodbudgie@DROPKNICKERSgmail.com> wrote >>>>>>>>>> The supermarket pricks deserve to get ripped off. >>>>>>>>> Wholly deserving of it (Woolworths and Coles). The way they rip >>>>>>>>> off small manufacturers, dairy producers, and nearby competitors. >>>>>>>>>> The scumbags wanted to save money by not paying any wages >>>>>>>>>> and denying people a job by using the self service machines. >>>>>>>>>> I absolutely refuse to use the self service in a >>>>>>>>>> supermarket as it takes away a job from someone. >>>>>>>>> Agreed. From what I have seen, they're a real PITA to use anyway. >>>>>>>> Like hell they are. They work fine. >>>>>>> so you'd rather interact with a machine than a person. >>>>>> Yep. Works much better than the checkout monkeys. >>>>> When I have few enough items, I always look first for an open >>>>> self-check. >>>> I do it all the time, and get pissed off with Coles that opens >>>> the self checkouts later than the manned checkouts because >>>> they need an extra person to supervise them. >>> Ours are usually labeled as limited to 12 (or 15) items or fewer. >> The self checkouts ? Ours never have any label like that. > Yes, the self checkouts. None of ours have anything like that. > Their staging areas are also much smaller than at the manned ones, helping > enforce the limits. Not here, you are free to put the scanned and bagged stuff into another trolley if you like. > I guess that's to let them fit more checkouts into the same space. Not > only do they save on personnel, they save square footage as well. >>> Coles is being silly opening the self checkouts later. >> Nope, just irritating. >>> They can leave just one of the others closed and have that one person >>> supervise a bunch of self checkouts. >> When the self checkouts are close there is just the >> one manned checkout operating and just the one >> person in that area that does everything, including >> flog the cigarettes and do the returns etc. > Ah, that makes sense then. I was picturing multiple manned stations open > and no self checkouts. >> There are other staff in the store, but just the >> shelf stackers in the fresh fruit and veg area >> that early and usually only the one there too. Just went thru the Super IGA in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, before the schools had come out and there was just the one manned checkout open and that one did everything, sell cigarettes and newspapers and deals with returns as well as serving the customers buying normal stuff. Our supermarkets have to manually sell cigarettes and tobacco products at the checkout itself so they can check that they arent being sold to minors. And in my state the grog has its own separate part of the supermarket and in some cases a physically separate store with its own manual checkout(s) too. >> We've just had Woolys proclaim that they are going >> to sack 500 staff and close the least productive stores >> and it will be interesting to see if they go the same >> route. Woolys have a lot more staff up the front when >> the supermarket has just opened and always open the >> self checkouts at the same time as the manned ones. >> The other major chain here, Super IGA, doesn’t have >> any self checkouts and only has the one manned >> checkout operating very early and again the one >> person who does everything, flog the fags and >> does the returns until the volume builds up >> enough to open more checkouts. >> Our Aldi is still being built, but they don’t have any >> self checkouts either. >> We do have one other major supermarket, Foodland, >> but no self checkouts there either. I don’t go there >> often enough just after they have opened to be >> able to say how many manned checkouts they >> have open initially, think it is just one too. >> Woolys has been stupid enough to have two supermarkets >> in our town of just 50K people, it will be interesting to see >> if they close the one they have just opened after one hell >> of a local shit fight to allow them to build that. It never >> made any sense at all to have two in this town and even >> less sense now that Aldi is now building their own now. >>>>> They're far faster to use, and I don't have to worry about the >>>>> cashier entering the wrong code for produce and overcharging. >>>> I don’t get that often enough to matter. >>>>> These stations work so well, and so reliably, that on the rare >>>>> occasion that there's a problem it's very annoying. >>>> I don’t find it very annoying, but like you say it is very rare. >>> If it happened at all often we'd be used to it. >> I'd actually get quite annoyed if it happened >> much, and don’t mind at all when it is very rare. >>> As it is, it's such an unusual situation, it really does annoy me. I >>> still get through faster than if I used a manned station though. >> Yeah, I do too. I do most of my supermarket shopping very >> early, just after the garage sales have finished, and so there >> is almost always a free self checkout when I need one except >> at Coles when they haven't opened any of them that early. >>>>> Of course they then have the one cashier who oversees six to twelve >>>>> stations come over and take care of it. >>>> And that person is usually more skilled >>>> than the average checkout monkey too. >>> We (US) are having a push for higher minimum wage, so it makes good >>> business sense to hire a smaller number of more skilled people. >> And your minimum wage is much lower than ours are. > The real minimum wage is always $0. Its actually negative where you have to pay to be employed, usually to get the experience that in theory makes it more likely that you will actually be paid to do the work. > The higher the official one gets, the more people are forced out of > employment. In theory. In practice when the unemployment rate is down in the low single digit percentages, the unemployed are mostly those who choose not to work or are between jobs. > We have not just the national one but also state and local ones, Our is in theory national. But we also have piece rates for stuff like fruit picking and pruning and baby sitting etc which mean that you don’t necessarily end up with anything like the minimum wage. > helping move jobs out of specific cities and states. National is $7.25US, > while here (Colorado) it's $8.31US. And that is lower than in any other first and second world country. > I see that Australia has $17.70AU, which translates to about $13.30US, > closer to the $15US our left wingers have been pushing for. And our unemployment rate isnt that different to yours. > There are enough jobs that aren't worth even the $7.25US, much less nearly > twice that. More automation, here we come. But that happens even without a legal minimum wage. >>>>> As unskilled workers continue to demand higher pay (well beyond >>>>> their time's worth) and automated systems continue to get cheaper >>>>> and better, we'll see more low-skill jobs replaced by machines. >>>> And even if they don’t demand higher wages too. >>>> Its obviously much cheaper to have the one person there >>>> for 6 or 12 self checkouts than one for each manned one. >>>> I'll have the cheaper prices that allows thanks. >>> Same here. The push for higher wages just accelerates a process that >>> will happen regardless. The whiners aren't so much arguing themselves >>> out of their jobs as making it happen faster. >> True. >>>>>> When Telecom first did their new system that allowed you >>>>>> to pay your bill with an automated system at their end, it >>>>>> got so overloaded initially that when I tried to use it it fell >>>>>> back to the usual call center monkey. She was pretty pissed >>>>>> when I said I wanted to use the new automated system. >>>>>> I actually automated my end so my machine talked to theirs. >>>>>>> that's sad. >>>>>> I'm not so desperate that I need to talk to checkout monkeys. >>>>> While I don't agree with the characterization, I certainly agree >>>>> with the sentiment. Just how lonely and pathetic does someone need to >>>>> be to look forward to their time with a cashier? >>>> Yeah, rather pathetic. >>>>> Why not pay all bills in person instead of using automated or >>>>> electronic payments while we're at it? >>>> He probably does. >>> LOL. We pay all of our bills either with automatic drafts or with >>> online bill pay. >> Yeah, me too. >>> If I ever get so lonely and pathetic that I want to go out of my way to >>> do these things in person just for the brief >>> human contact, I think I'll be able to find a better outlet. >> I know I could. >>> I could join a church, >> I wouldn’t be game, some vengeful god would be sure >> to set fire to it if a heathen like me showed up and that >> would ruin the day just a tad for the rest of them. > Try the Church of the Subgenius, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti > Monster. AIUI they're much less psychotic than the more popular ones. Bit thin on the ground here. He don’t have anything like the density of churches that you lot do. >>> take up chess in the park, play bingo, or something else like that. >> Yeah, some of my mates are into U3A etc for that. >>> I highly doubt any of that will be needed. >> I know it isnt in my case. It’s a very rare day indeed that >> I don’t talk to someone in person or on the phone. > Same here. My wife usually comes home for lunch, and even when she > doesn't I see her outside the work day. I have neighbors stop by when I'm > working in the yard. When I'm not so lazy and go on bicycle rides, I end > up talking to other cyclists. There are a lot of situations where you can > talk to someone who isn't being cornered into it the way a cashier is. >>>>> Just think of the scintillating conversations you could have every >>>>> month with the wonderful folks at the utility company, the phone >>>>> company, the garbage company, etc.! If you timed it right, you >>>>> might be able to avoid ever going more than three or four days >>>>> without one of these life-affirming interactions! >>>> And if you can't get a landline and chat to the spam callers. >>>> You can even get one for free if you are a desperate pov. >>> I guess we all have our differences, and we shouldn't laugh at someone >>> else's life choices for social interaction. But I will anyway. >> Yeah, me too.
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Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts Jeßus <j@j.j> - 2016-07-28 08:45 +1000
Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts "Dechucka" <Dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2016-07-28 09:28 +1000
Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts Jeßus <j@j.j> - 2016-07-28 09:51 +1000
Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts Sandgroper <woodbudgie@DROPKNICKERSgmail.com> - 2016-07-28 11:43 +0800
Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts Sandgroper <woodbudgie@DROPKNICKERSgmail.com> - 2016-07-28 11:38 +0800
Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts Jeßus <j@j.j> - 2016-07-28 15:18 +1000
Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts Fran Farmer <ask@maybeitwillbforthcoming.com> - 2016-07-26 09:29 +1000
Re: Supermarkets lose billions from self serve checkouts Ördög <devil@hell.net> - 2016-07-25 23:41 +0000
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