Wal-Mart has heard the complaints!

Kevin · #1 06-23-2002, 08:39 PM

Just today I stopped by a Neighborhood Walmart (that's a WalMart grocery store -- no clothes and such there) and I saw something that would be GREAT if every store would adopt it.

SELF CHECKOUT LANES!

This was awesome.. no waiting in line.. no dealing with some teenage cashier who couldn't give a crap..... Just scan it, pay, bag my stuff and leave.

Was a good experience!

damasa · #2 06-23-2002, 08:42 PM

How do you have to pay for it? A debit card or credit card, something like that?

Kevin · #3 06-23-2002, 08:44 PM

It looks like it'd take cash and charge... And I believe the machines would scan the checks and debit your checking account. I didn't write a check but I have written checks for stuff at Wal Mart and I always got to keep the check after they put it through a machine.

Strange stuff.

Thrillhouse · #4 06-23-2002, 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by damasa
How do you have to pay for it? A debit card or credit card, something like that?

You can pay many ways, cash, credit cards, debit, etc. They are quite nice

CrimsonTide4 · #5 06-23-2002, 08:45 PM

They have it here at the Giant Eagle, Kroger, and Meijer and it is a BLESSING fa sho. Now only person you can b*tch and moan at for being slow is yourself.

You can pay (at the ones I have been to) any way you want, Cash, check, CC, Debit, etc.

I have not been to a Wal Mart since Heck was a pup but I will look when I get to Charlotte this weekend.

damasa · #6 06-23-2002, 08:48 PM

Ok, so I have another question....how will store security know if you don't scan all the things you buy? Like, scan one thing put it in the bag, don't scan something else, put it in the bag....that kind of thing.

Kevin · #7 06-23-2002, 08:49 PM

Well I'm not for sure... but I put it on this conveyer that slid it through this contraption that was shielded by acrylic. So I'm assuming it removes some kind of anti-theft system decoding there.

CrimsonTide4 · #8 06-23-2002, 09:01 PM

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Originally posted by damasa
Ok, so I have another question....how will store security know if you don't scan all the things you buy? Like, scan one thing put it in the bag, don't scan something else, put it in the bag....that kind of thing.

Well @ Giant Eagle, they have 4 of those self check out expresses and they are grouped together with a cashier standing there to process checks, check I.D., help the clueless, and help if any problems arise.

TLAW · #9 06-23-2002, 09:19 PM

Seems like the rest of retail is just catching up. That stuff has been around for a while, at least in Ohio, in 1999 when I was up there foing an internship. I loved grocery shopping.
Having worked in security, I do know it is supposed to monitored by an employee at the top of the conveyor, who has his/her own station. This same person would accept cash payments. Thus, it is a "trust but verify" relationship.

CrimsonTide4 · #10 06-23-2002, 09:22 PM

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Originally posted by TLAW
Seems like the rest of retail is just catching up. That stuff has been around for a while, at least in Ohio, in 1999 when I was up there foing an internship. I loved grocery shopping.

LOL, TLAW does North Carolina have the right stuff? I am getting a little scuuuuurred?

TLAW · #11 06-23-2002, 09:33 PM

LOL... to set your mind at ease, it is seeping thru, CrimsonTide. I saw it last week at a local Food Lion.

Steeltrap · #12 06-23-2002, 09:42 PM

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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
They have it here at the Giant Eagle, Kroger, and Meijer and it is a BLESSING fa sho. Now only person you can b*tch and moan at for being slow is yourself.

You can pay (at the ones I have been to) any way you want, Cash, check, CC, Debit, etc.

I have not been to a Wal Mart since Heck was a pup but I will look when I get to Charlotte this weekend.

I tried it for the first time a couple of months ago. It worked, and I will go back. I just sometimes get irked at lines, especially those low-budget clowns who try to put 12 items in a 10-item express lane. So retrograde.

CrimsonTide4 · #13 06-23-2002, 09:47 PM

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Originally posted by Steeltrap
I just sometimes get irked at lines, especially those low-budget clowns who try to put 12 items in a 10-item express lane. So retrograde.

I do that all of the time. For example, 10 packs of Kool Aid count as one item for me.

LOL, sorry but I know how to swipe my items QUICKLY.

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TLAW said:
LOL... to set your mind at ease, it is seeping thru, CrimsonTide. I saw it last week at a local Food Lion.

PRAISE HIM!!!

aephi alum · #14 06-24-2002, 09:15 AM

Kmart has had self-checkout lanes for a few years.

I recently saw one at a supermarket. Scan your own items, then pay by cash or credit card (I don't think it took checks). The odd thing was that, although there were no cashiers, there were baggers...

Kevin · #15 06-24-2002, 01:36 PM

KMarts in Oklahoma never had it... and then they all closed. So I guess it's just Wallie World for now here..

(Wallie world of course raised prices once KMart left

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