This baffles me:
Ever since we were young children, we have been to the store in one capacity or another. We have been the shopper. We have been with someone who was shopping. We have witnessed others shopping. Some of us may have had jobs helping other people shop. A few of us may have even been a mystery shopper. Whether we shop a little or a lot, we all end up at the same place: the check-out. So, with a life time of shopping experience, all of which end up at the check-out, why, oh why, is it so hard for so many people to use the self check-out?
I don't even think I need to go on. We all have our own story about it, and doesn't it always happen to the person in front of you, and aren't you always in a hurry and just need a few things?
Ya, me too
(I originally wrote this on November 4, 2007)
Monday, May 24, 2010
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The self checkouts at our local supermarket are layed out with the inside checkout stands back to back. When I am using one, as I scan my groceries, I can look up and be face to face with the person on the opposite side scanning their groceries.
ReplyDeleteI am never at the store without am independent 5 year old who MUST do everything herself. As we used the self checkout, I stood with her as she scanned our items. Each time I would say things such as "Hang on, do it slower, or GREAT JOB!"
I noticed the man on the opposite side of our checkout stand looking at me and sometimes he stopped scanning his own stuff and just stared at me. Once we were done, we loaded up the cart and my little one took off for the trinket machines with a few quarters in her hands. that man stopped me and said "The whole time you were checking out I thought you were talking to yourself and encouraging yourself outloud because I could not see your little girl behind the checkout stand".....
That reminds of when I see people who are wearing wireless headsets for their phones which are so small that you think they're carrying on a conversation to themselves. One time, we were out running errands, and a man was on a headset. Jadyn asked quite loudly, "Why is that man arguing with himself? He looks ridiculous!"
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