Yes! That’s the one! I’m glad it wasn’t buried and lost forever.
Great find!
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Confession:
I bought a couple of 25 lb. plates at wal mart, but the bar code on them must have been for 10 lb. plates because that’s what they rung up as.
I did not correct this mistake. I’m not even gonna try to dress it up as anything like cynicism toward corporatocracy or anything else.
I’m just glad that I got 50 lbs. of plate for like $17.
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Did you use the self check out?
Nope. That was going through the regular line.
Sub-confession: I suck at self checkouts. They make me anxious and keep talking at me until I want to punch the thing to make it shut up.
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Congrats either way!
I completely understand to self checkout rage though.
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I exclusively use self checkouts in Virginia. They’re seamless, and I can get pretty much a whole cart of stuff through them twice as fast as any cashier can. Last time I went to New York, I tried the self checkouts and they were absolutely useless. Constantly glitching out, telling me I put stuff in too quickly, telling me to take stuff out when I hadn’t put anything in, requiring attendants to come across several times, etc. I had noticed that I was the only one using them, so it was obvious why that was the case by the time I had finished. It wasn’t just that one place I was at, either - it was 3 separate grocery stores - one in the bronx, one in eastern long island, one in western long island.
Long story short, I do feel like it depends where you’re at. It SHOULD be as easy as, scan, drop, repeat, and if there’s no barcode, a button that says “look up by name”, and the first letter should bring up your product. You should be able to do it fast, and it should work just as well as the cashier’s booths. This just isn’t the case at a lot of places, and it makes people feel nervous to use them, but it’s the shitty machinery, not the person most of the time.
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I occasionally go mushroom hunting with a guy who repairs and resets those systems.
So we’re up and at’em bright and early trudging through the woods and he breaks out a beer, chuckles “Hair of the dog, ya know?” And I’m like “Yeah, I’ve had my turn in that barrel…”. Then a few casual tokes of what can only be described as hydroponic brain damage. Then a couple bumps. Just to even things out, right? So we find some morels and he celebrates with a healthy nip from a flask of Old Grand Dad, and a little snow cap, because why not at this point. I mean it’s almost 10:30 am at this point.
Then he gets the call, and says “Oh, shit! I completely forgot I’m on call this weekend. Let’s get back to the car. I gotta split!”.
THAT is what’s wrong with those things. 
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I was once buying some chairs for Ikea. Id taken the lane and bay number but checked the “End of Ikea” where they sell made furniture that has been on the floor.
The chairs I wanted where £90 full price, but they had some in the discount part for £75. As luck would have it they where also selling chair covers. As in the cheap as chips fabric covers that make your chairs look a touch nicer for £2 a chair.
With each item being on a separate bar code tag I hid the £75 bar code tag under the £2 chair cover and self scanned.
I brought 6 chairs for £12. The girl on the self scan desk gave me a sideways look as I walked out with then but no one stopped me. Expect my wife. We was stood in the self service part going “Are you sure we scanned this right? This does’t seem right”
I told her on the drive home and honest to God she wanted to go back and pay full price.
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One sec - are these self checkouts designed for carts or are you one of those wretched souls that takes a cart through checkouts that are clearly not designed for more than a basket?
Not really that surprising. @SkyzykS had a sticker on the item so that’s a store error and stores often have a policy of giving the lower price, where I’m pretty sure this is just straight out shoplifting lol
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Also, what’s wrong with you people? 
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Cash register honesty is a bitch.
I like to consider myself a good and moral person. Then I look at the evidence. 
Like the afterthought “Damn. I should have grabbed all four!”.
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Does this still count as buyer’s remorse?
I love self-checkout, and can’t even really say why. Faster, yes, but there’s something more. Like, I get insulted when a store staff approaches in case I need help: “DO I LOOK LIKE I NEED HELP, BUTTHEAD? DID I CALL FOR HELP??”
Control, maybe. I think I just like scanning things. I think I’d be a good grocery store clerk if the therapy thing ever went south. Although I had a dream the other night in which I was a waitress, and it was very pleasant. I was going up to the table and introducing myself, getting ready to take the order. It was like the opposite of a stress dream. I just felt confident and happy. I woke up wondering if the term “waitress” is now a no-no, though, and became a tiny bit stressed by that.
Confession: I really don’t know wtf is with me as I consider the above.
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The self checkouts in Florida work fine, it’s just annoying when they make you click through 4-5 screens before payment goes through, still better than cashier though.
The ones in PGH are a completely different story…
I confess that I DID bang on the self checkout at target a couple of times when shopping there
One Christmas season, my wife self-checked out at WalMart once and forgot to scan some stuff on the bottom of her cart. If you knew my wife, you would know this is not surprising. Fat, undercover security guard stopped her and took her to the security office. They rang up the stuff and it came to $106, $6 dollars over where they call the police. She explained a ton that she just forgot it was down there, but dickwad called the cops. Cop refused to arrest her, so they banned her from that Walmart for a year. The kicker is she paid for $380 worth of stuff. Not sure why they thought she would do that, but then try to steal $106 worth of mostly pajamas (there are 7 of us in the family). Anyway, I refuse to let her use self-checkout anymore.
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I confess that they offered me a big promotion at work yesterday.
And all I could think of was, “how will this affect my training?”
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Think of all the supplements you could buy though…
Work on that 100% supps diet
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When these things first came out, I ran into a glitch in the self checkout when buying an avocado. The store charged you per avocado, meaning you either scanned and bagged or you had to select that you were buying an avocado, then enter how many you were buying, before bagging.
I put the avocado on the scale, picked avocado, then it asked me how many avocados I am buying. This made the self checkout drop the avocado from my bought things, freaking it out when I threw the avocado into the bag.
So I call a person over because the machine flipped out and she says I bagged an avocado without scanning it. I explain what I did and and she says no, that didn’t happen that I must not have put it through the machine first.
So I said okay and walked out leaving the two bags of groceries in the self checkout.
I haven’t returned to that store in what must be close to a decade now lol
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I’ve been guilty of this as well lately. Work has been nuts, and I’ve offered a few times to take on more responsibility (dispatch, fielding calls, creating and releasing work orders, billing…) for a price, of course… Then I think about how little time I give myself for lifting to begin with and have immediately taken back my offer. Just not worth it in my situation.
I want to work to live, not live to work.
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