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If you have the option, do you use the cashier or the self checkout line at the grocery store? What about other types if store like hardware stores?

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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My preferred is self checkout, unfortunately The self checkout at every grocery store i go to is utter SHIT for a weekly trip. They are fine if you have a few items.

For a big shopping trip, The carts are not setup for it, the checkout area is way to small and the registers arent positioned/configured correctly.

One store has a scan option as you go that is awesome. You scan as you go down the isle and put your stuff on your bags, at the end you scan a bar code on the scanner and pay. Only problem.. it typically crashes halfway through the shopping. It is unusable.

Coincidently, I am at Bethany Beach in Delaware, rented a house for Ocean’s Calling, we went to Giant for stuff and AMAZINGLY the self checkout was excellent.

It was a typical chechout lane with a belt etc thar had a self checkout register.. it worked perfecly.