I think they're a good idea but the only one I've used is so crappy that I hope it never shows up at my grocery store.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
I use the self-checkout at Home Depot, but that's simply because most of my experiences with checkouts at Home Depot have been less than satisfactory.
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Jesus Haploid Christ I hate the checkouts at that store. You can't scan the items at any reasonable pace or the computer gets confused, and then you have to cancel your whole order and start over. You have to scan the item, then wait 2-3 seconds for the unnaturally cheerful voice to tell you to place it in the bagging area, then you have to wait another 2-3 seconds before attempting to scan the next item. If any of those items happen to be heavy, you then have to wait for the absent attendant to come out of hiding to reset the weight sensor. Add to that a chronically miscalibrated touchscreen that makes selecting a payment type in less than 3 tries all but impossible, and you've got a fairly eficcient means of convincing people to get their hardware eslewhere.
But yeah, they are better than waiting in line for the one human cashier.