{"id":757,"date":"2015-05-05T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=757"},"modified":"2015-05-05T08:38:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:38:23","slug":"self-checkout-is-soul-destroying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Self Checkout is Soul Destroying!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a true story, this comic is from <a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">notalwaysright.com<\/a>. \u00a0And it happens on a daily basis in my store. \u00a0 We have two self-checkouts and I&#8217;d say there is a problem with one\u00a0of them\u00a0about every 3-4 customers on the average. \u00a0 90% of the problems are from the scale not weighing something accurately. \u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s the customer&#8217;s fault (don&#8217;t take the item off the scale, you haven&#8217;t paid for it yet&#8230;) but a lot of times it&#8217;s not their fault.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, \u00a0you&#8217;ll be seeing more and more ACO&#8217;s (Assisted Checkouts) being placed in stores as labor hours are cut more and more. \u00a0 \u00a0I often see customers who PREFER to use the self-checkout even if there is no one in line and a cashier standing there ready to help them. \u00a0 I guess there are those who are not interested in interacting with a live person and would rather speak to a soulless computer instead. \u00a0 \u00a0 After all, they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/lowes-robot-future-service-work\" target=\"_blank\">testing robots to replace employees giving customer service at Lowe&#8217;s,<\/a> so perhaps this is where we&#8217;re headed anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/004_self_checkout_copy.jpg\" alt=\"004_self_checkout_copy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a true story, this comic is from notalwaysright.com. \u00a0And it happens on a daily basis in my store. \u00a0 We have two self-checkouts and I&#8217;d say there is a problem with one\u00a0of them\u00a0about every 3-4 customers on the average. \u00a0 90% of the problems are from the scale not weighing something accurately. \u00a0 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=757\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-humor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}