Reply #28: Self serve checkouts. [View All]

[NYC]

I went to Home Depot on Thursday, and bought one cheap little plant. ($1.25 + tax = $1.36 total)

I was standing on a long line. There was one employee trying to coax people over to the self checkout. He noticed that I had one item, and asked me to go to self checkout. (He was going to do the checking out work.)

I refused. Told him they should hire more cashiers, and if I went to the self checkout, it would not encourage them to hire more cashiers. He said something about the line being long, and I said that was because they needed to hire more cashiers.

I will never use self checkout. Someone is out of a job because of those. Since they have approximately 10 of them, I assume 10 people are out of jobs.