Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
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@boomzilla speak for yourself. I’m pretty fast.
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@topspin the ones round here passively-aggressively remind you to "Please scan your items" if you're not scanning them quickly enough, for some definition of quickly enough.
I swear they change that time threshold based on some AI recognising who it is and setting it to be just ahead of how quickly they know you scan.
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@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
"Please scan your items" if you're not scanning them quickly enough, for some definition of quickly enough.
I've never experienced that, but the ones at Walmart used to complain "Unexpected item in bagging area" if it took you more than 1.3μs to put the item in the bag after you scanned it.
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
It's like an AI generated deepfake. It looks very convincing at first glance but then you take another look and realize they have no conception of what hexadecimal numbers are, let alone how they work.
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@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@topspin the ones round here passively-aggressively remind you to "Please scan your items" if you're not scanning them quickly enough, for some definition of quickly enough.
I swear they change that time threshold based on some AI recognising who it is and setting it to be just ahead of how quickly they know you scan.
I don’t actually do that. I’m not getting paid to scan items.
But I guess my joke was
too lamelost on you.
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@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
"Please scan your items" if you're not scanning them quickly enough, for some definition of quickly enough.
I've never experienced that, but the ones at Walmart used to complain "Unexpected item in bagging area" if it took you more than 1.3μs to put the item in the bag after you scanned it.
Oddly Walmart has the most forgiving, easiest to use self checkouts I’ve used. And I tend to prefer self checkouts because I hate interacting with other people and am faster bagging my own stuff usually.
Safeway’s are awful, as are Winco’s. Naggy, bad scanners, ultra paranoid scales, etc.
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@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@topspin the ones round here passively-aggressively remind you to "Please scan your items" if you're not scanning them quickly enough, for some definition of quickly enough.
I swear they change that time threshold based on some AI recognising who it is and setting it to be just ahead of how quickly they know you scan.
I don’t actually do that. I’m not getting paid to scan items.
But I guess my joke was
too lamelost on you.Nope, not lost on me. It’s just that the self-checkouts here are legitimately awful and I’d go to the actual staffed checkout if it were staffed… but it usually isn’t so I am forced to interact with the battle of the awful checkout-doer, whether that’s me or the hateful little machine at the Co-Op is a question for the ages.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
"Please scan your items" if you're not scanning them quickly enough, for some definition of quickly enough.
I've never experienced that, but the ones at Walmart used to complain "Unexpected item in bagging area" if it took you more than 1.3μs to put the item in the bag after you scanned it.
Oddly Walmart has the most forgiving, easiest to use self checkouts I’ve used. And I tend to prefer self checkouts because I hate interacting with other people and am faster bagging my own stuff usually.
Safeway’s are awful, as are Winco’s. Naggy, bad scanners, ultra paranoid scales, etc.
Yeah, Walmart's are pretty good. Which is a good thing since that's how 95% of orders get scanned at my store. My supermarket (Giant) used to be great, but then they were getting lots of shoplifting and tightened them up (PUT YOUR ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA) and made them 20 items or less only. But my store usually has a reasonable number of cashiers at all times so it's not too bad.
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
"Please scan your items" if you're not scanning them quickly enough, for some definition of quickly enough.
I've never experienced that, but the ones at Walmart used to complain "Unexpected item in bagging area" if it took you more than 1.3μs to put the item in the bag after you scanned it.
Oddly Walmart has the most forgiving, easiest to use self checkouts I’ve used. And I tend to prefer self checkouts because I hate interacting with other people and am faster bagging my own stuff usually.
Safeway’s are awful, as are Winco’s. Naggy, bad scanners, ultra paranoid scales, etc.
Yeah, Walmart's are pretty good. Which is a good thing since that's how 95% of orders get scanned at my store. My supermarket (Giant) used to be great, but then they were getting lots of shoplifting and tightened them up (PUT YOUR ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA) and made them 20 items or less only. But my store usually has a reasonable number of cashiers at all times so it's not too bad.
That’s one big reason I like self checkouts. Walmart has never ever had enough live cashiers, even before self checkout was a thing. My favorite ones are the belt-style ones, basically a regular lane with a self checkout instead of a cashier. Best parts of both. And for every moron who can’t read at self checkout, there’s an old lady who wants to talk while slowly paying with a check in the regular lanes.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Oddly Walmart has the most forgiving, easiest to use self checkouts I’ve used.
They used to be really bad, but then they got a lot less picky about the bagging area. Now, I haven't a clue; I haven't been in a Walmart for 2–3 years.
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
made them 20 items or less only.
I almost never use self check-out at my current grocery store, for this reason. Well, mostly because I do most of my shopping online, but when I do go into the store, I'm usually doing a week's shopping, which is way more than 20 items.
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@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
made them 20 items or less only.
I almost never use self check-out at my current grocery store, for this reason.
“this reason” presumably being the store’s inability to use ‘fewer’ appropriately?
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Self checkout here is mainly scan-as-you-shop, so walking around with a hand scanner, scanning and packing everything as you go around the store. Then at the end just return the scanner and pay.
Although the store near my work does not have that, just regular self checkout. And for some reason it is set to always flag if you buy something from the bakery, meaning a staff needs to come and count your cinnamon buns every single time. (They don't, they just click through that check.)
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@Atazhaia said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Self checkout here is mainly scan-as-you-shop, so walking around with a hand scanner, scanning and packing everything as you go around the store. Then at the end just return the scanner and pay.
We have that as well but the main drawback is that you need to be registered with the supermarket (the chain, not the individual one), so it's a bit annoying if you don't always shop in the same place.
My main complaint about self-checkout (and, I guess, those scan-as-you-shop things) is that clearly supermarkets are using that as a way to reduce the number of staff and in many places there are only a handful of non-self-checkout lanes open at any time. I never timed it but I think that nowadays it's rare that I have to queue less than 10 min / .
(I only saw once a self-checkout with belt, all the other are restricted to baskets, not trolleys, so you don't really have a choice)
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What does TTL mean? And why does this remind me of WDTWTFers?
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Atazhaia said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Self checkout here is mainly scan-as-you-shop, so walking around with a hand scanner, scanning and packing everything as you go around the store. Then at the end just return the scanner and pay.
We have that as well but the main drawback is that you need to be registered with the supermarket (the chain, not the individual one), so it's a bit annoying if you don't always shop in the same place.
My main complaint about self-checkout (and, I guess, those scan-as-you-shop things) is that clearly supermarkets are using that as a way to reduce the number of staff and in many places there are only a handful of non-self-checkout lanes open at any time. I never timed it but I think that nowadays it's rare that I have to queue less than 10 min / .
(I only saw once a self-checkout with belt, all the other are restricted to baskets, not trolleys, so you don't really have a choice)
In the supermarket where I usually shop, they put the self checkouts in about 10 years ago, and since the first implementation, they've redone checkouts so that now they have 20 or so self checkout points, and just 4 registers, but it's been a change over time. At the beginning they kept all the original registers and had 5 self checkouts.
As people got used to using the self checkouts, they slowly reduced the manned registers because they weren't being used.Also, ou just need to download an app and login using BankID, so not terribly annoying to get started.
Or you could register a membership and get yourself a member card to swipe.
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@Carnage TBH, the last bit of my previous post is the part that really annoys me. If I could go with a full trolley through a self-checkout, I probably would -- maybe not all times, but I certainly don't really care about having a human scanning stuff rather than myself. So less manned tills wouldn't bother me.
But I can't, and nor can all the other people shopping with a trolley. So everybody with a basket (i.e. customers that don't take a long time to checkout) ends up in self-checkout and I'm guessing that some people who are getting a medium amount of stuff pick a basket rather than a trolley just so they can self-checkout (=faster). Which means you only get people with full trolleys at the couple of tills left open for them, and they take ages to checkout. So it sucks.
I kinda like the idea of scanning items as you pick them up, but for some reason () I've never bothered to register at the supermarket I most often go. One day...
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Carnage TBH, the last bit of my previous post is the part that really annoys me. If I could go with a full trolley through a self-checkout, I probably would -- maybe not all times, but I certainly don't really care about having a human scanning stuff rather than myself. So less manned tills wouldn't bother me.
But I can't, and nor can all the other people shopping with a trolley. So everybody with a basket (i.e. customers that don't take a long time to checkout) ends up in self-checkout and I'm guessing that some people who are getting a medium amount of stuff pick a basket rather than a trolley just so they can self-checkout (=faster). Which means you only get people with full trolleys at the couple of tills left open for them, and they take ages to checkout. So it sucks.
I kinda like the idea of scanning items as you pick them up, but for some reason () I've never bothered to register at the supermarket I most often go. One day...
Yeah, standing like a chump scanning items at the checkout would be annoying to me so when there isn't a scanner I don't bother with self checkout.
Also, at least one of the chains lets you use the app on your phone to do the scanning with. I haven't tried it though. I prefer the bacteria infested dedicated scanners.
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@Atazhaia said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
staff needs to come and count your ... buns every single time.
Two. Always two. But if the staff person is sufficiently cute, I might let her verify that.
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
a human ... rather than myself.
What kind of creature or machine are you?
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@HardwareGeek Some sort of cheese elemental?
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@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Atazhaia said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
staff needs to come and count your ... buns every single time.
Two. Always two. But if the staff person is sufficiently cute, I might let her verify that.
It never happens on those occasions... only when the perpetually annoyed Soviet lumberjack is there
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Atazhaia said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
staff needs to come and count your ... buns every single time.
Two. Always two. But if the staff person is sufficiently cute, I might let her verify that.
It never happens on those occasions... only when the perpetually annoyed Soviet lumberjack is there
Probably just as well. If I were to attempt it, it would likely not be perceived as flirtation, but as an old pervert being creepy. Sad .
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However, he has since revealed the £2.5bn investment package after the CMA revisited its decision and waved through the takeover.
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@DogsB Crash loop? Isn't restarting your stuff every 10 seconds Ruby-best-practices?
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@Benjamin-Hall One step forward, 16 steps back
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Going down would be easy, going up I'd walk on the snow.
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@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Benjamin-Hall One step forward, 16 steps back
Crampons!
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@Carnage said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
going up I'd walk on the snow.
Don't you have spikes on your shoes?
They are also useful when you need to kick someone...
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@BernieTheBernie said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Carnage said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
going up I'd walk on the snow.
Don't you have spikes on your shoes?
They are also useful when you need to kick someone...Nah, I kinda learned to walk when it's slippery instead. Back when I worked in a factory and had to clean robot cells with epoxy floors covered in oil.
Before I broke my spine, the last time I actually fell in winter was when I was running, took a 90 degree turn and decided to skip on one leg around the corner. That was kinda pushing it I guess.
I did have spikes for shoes back in the mid nineties though.
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@HardwareGeek Still :upboat:
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