Disclaimer: this is just a meme.
Mistakes happen when untrained people are employed to do work.
For free.
Me accidentally buying a PS5 for $8 by weighing it as onions
Expensive onions
Idk I’ve always just considered a way to go about my business quicker and with less need for human contact. It’s a plus for me
You do know how much water is wasted to produce avocados, right? 💧
You can take my almonds and my beef, but not avocados. That’s the line.
I accept your almonds and beef.
You do know how much water is wasted to produce comments like this, right?
Almonds?
No, avocados. Try to keep up, mate.
If I stop buying them, will that solve a problem?
Did a bit of googling. Found this article:
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/avocado-environmental-impactLooks like the main issue is that they tend to be grown in areas that may be prone to drought, so there’s a concern that they may deprive the community of water.
The same article also says:
“Monoculture crops like avocados wind up drawing all the nutrients from the soil, slowly degrading it year after year. This makes the soil less fertile over time until it is no longer viable for growing”.
So yeah, buying avocados is pretty much a sin against nature.
That’s just irresponsible farming. It can happen with almost any crop.
To a degree, yes.
If I’m working as a checkout clerk, then I need to be paid minimum wage. My minimum shift is also the mandated three hours.
The fact that things like this never occur to me as possibilities goes to show just how naive I am about how the world works
I have had the thought when buying 2 donuts from the bakery section I could ring it up as 1, but then I realize that it might lead to trouble just to save maybe a dollar at most.
It’s all fun and games until you are banned from the local grocery stores .Loss prevention is pretty good these days. It’s the Internet though, they really aren’t stealing. It’s internet tough guy shit.
Most self checkouts use cameras and AI where I am.
Where I used to live, the self checkout didn’t even accept Google Pay.
Aw, that’s the best part. I love paying with my ridiculous smart watch that I didn’t need.
Well too bad you spent so much money on a watch that needs to be charged every day.
It was a stupid impulse buy, yes…
Oh these are the worst. I had an Apple watch Series 0 I got cheap from a friend. Was pretty neat, but the charging was annoying.
Now I have a Casio GBD-200 which gives me a few smartwatch features (notifications, phone finder, vibration) with a battery that lasts 1-2 years and since it’s a G-Shock I don’t have to worry about damaging it.
You sound like a good person who returns their shopping cart
I return my shopping cart but I couldn’t give a shit less how much Walmart is losing to shoplifters.
“Oh know guys! We only made $28 million in profit this year instead of $29 million! What will we tell our investors who are each worth six times that?”
For some reason not returning the shopping cart makes me angrier than the meme about abusing self checkout.
Be the change you want to see in the world! The shopping cart/parking lot affects us all. Walmart losing money on every avocado doesn’t bother me at all.
In fact walmart probably doesn’t care at all either, they’ll take electricity over humans any day
A friend of mine told me that when he worked at a grocery store as a teenager that he always liked being tasked with rounding up the grocery carts in the parking lot because he got to go outside and be by himself for a bit. I think about that a lot, but I also return my cart.
Damn, now I’m going to think of those kids when I return the cart! Maybe I could like, pile them up real bad in the little hut so they can still get fresh air.
I agree with your friend, I’ve been in the same job. But I also return my cart.
I want to see corporate profits shrink!
Me returning the cart makes a person’s job easier.
Stealing doesn’t affect the workers.
“Did I see anyone stealing? No, I was too preoccupied with the dread of not being able to survive in this capitalist world, of course I wouldn’t be paying attention to other people.”
turns towards others “Y’all didn’t see a thief right?” complete silence “You see, officer, nothing happened here. Carry on.”
(Maybe I did see a someone casually put items in their bag, but again, I must’ve forgotten that I ever saw that, because the stress of life and all… 😉)
Well that was cringy even though I agree with the sentiment
It’s because they had to type it out to show how good they are.
Next year we cry about living in a “food desert”
Nobody lives in a food desert (not sure why you felt the need to do scare quotes there) because of customers ringing up avocados as bananas.
I guess overall theft can be a burden to stores so areas where that happen more often (poorer areas I’d guess) are more burdened by that and less profitable. But of course it’s not just because of a singular thing.
Why do grocery stores close down in neighborhoods leaving food deserts? “They’re not profitable”
This is 1000% the same meme as the “States rights to do what motherfucker?”
Don’t feel bad, you earned it. Imagine how it’s cheaper for companies to pay god knows how much on anti-theft measures instead of paying a living wage to cashiers.
ps. You should never use self checkout. We’ve all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.
Because the companies get free labor. I refuse unless it’s legit rush for something.
I wonder if people were pissed off that they had to go through the shop picking up products instead of having the shopkeeper do that for them.
What’s next? Expecting you to go to the store yourself?
I go to self checkout because my closest supermarket has one cash register and the queue is always like 6 old people
ps. You should never use self checkout. We’ve all been tricked into thinking we can do it better/faster ourselves.
Fuck off, it’s faster for me and I vastly prefer it. Quicker, less need to deal with other people and there’s no rush to bag your stuff. If you don’t want to use self-checkout then don’t.
I use self-checkout because I have a “20% off your entire cart” coupon that I don’t want to give up. When I scan it, I just put a random piece of paper into the slot so the machine registers that I put something in there. In this way, I kind of am getting paid to scan my own groceries.
The grocery store should also plan out my meals, drive me to their store, put the items in the cart for me, and then scan them all for me. Also they need to drive me back home instead of outsourcing that to me, and then they need to cook supper for me or they’re just cheaping out.
What a fucking brain rot take.
I agree, too much fucking time on their hands. Outrage on the simplest shit
I use self checkout because I don’t want to fake a conversation with the cashier.
LOL companies actually encourage this fake bullshit. It’s called “adding value to the relationship” Bet you didn’t realize that someone putting your canned beans and tampons into paper bags constituted a relationship.
Where I live cashiers don’t bag your stuff. I wouldn’t consider that a default
I also am particular about how I bag things. I agree with the sentiment of self checkouts being lame and taking jobs and all that jazz, but eh. There’s bigger fish to fry than this one, and many people like it anyway
Same. When I’m forced to go through a cashier because my cart has too many items, I meticulously put items in batches on the conveyor so similar stuff stay together; only for the cashier or bagger to mix them all up in the bags anyway. I try as much as possible to bag them myself but it’s kinda awkward to tell the bagger not to do their job. Or if there’s no bagger, it’s awkward seeing the cashier and the next customer waiting for me to finish bagging so they can start ringing up stuff. It’s self-checkout for me definitely.
Just scan a banana as an avacado right after. So they are both on your receipt.
Clerk: “Um, sir, that doesn’t look like a banana. Are you sure you entered the right code?”
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The jig is up. Run
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Apologize profusely
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[Rhetoric: Heroic 15] Convince the clerk you don’t know what fruits are
EVEN 58%
+1 You look terribly frazzled
This is a Red Check. It can not be retried
Rhetoric: [Heroic: Success] “Is this not a banana?” You say in the most genuine tone you can muster
Savior Faire: You may have been caught, but you managed to feign enough innocence to get trouble off your backThe clerk gives a dumbfounded expression
Clerk: “Uhm, no sir, that is an avocado, not a banana”
Half-Light: She is too terrified of your empty skull to properly correct you on thisEncyclopedia: It is in fact *not* a banana. A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called “plantains”, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name for this hybrid, Musa sapientum, is no longer used.
>me arguing with the self checkout override Lady
: "I just wanna buy these roma tomatoes "
: “Avocados aren’t red”Oh shit I’m gonna replay it again
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I’m surprised we haven’t gotten “don’t do this they keep track with cameras until they can charge you with a felony” guy in here yet
You ever buy the cheap wine, pull off the barcode and bring it back to the store, then buy the fancy expensive stuff with the cheap barcode over the top. They never notice, wine bottles all look the same to them.
c/unethicallifehacks
look I’m all for sticking it to the Man and stealing if you’re actually starving but a lot of you people are just Petty thieves
The grocery stores are as well when there’s record inflation and people struggling and they are all posting record profits.
How do you find that out?
what about sticking it to the man because fuck him
The ones from NCR use the camera-based 7879/7895 scales with computer vision to check that you aren’t doing this. It’ll take a picture and require an override where it shows that picture to the attendant.
It’s called produce assurance.
It’s strange how the disproportionality of wealth makes theft seem ok.
In this case it doesn’t, you’re stealing luxury items that are playing a huge huge role in water consumption. It’s like 91 liters of water per day per tree.
And an academic study focusing on global implications for water scarcity from the growth in avocado production says that that growing avocado requires “four times more water than the production of a kilo of oranges and ten times of that of a kilo of tomato”.
wait but would paying for it be better? does it just goes into the pocket of the store owner and gives them more motive to sell avocados? anyways i feel bad for enjoying avocados now sob
The best case scenario is people stop buying exotic foods and instead be ok with what is in season with an occasional treat.
Now check up how much water is required for meat, and suddenly realise that you’re maybe fighting the wrong battle here mate.
Regardless.
I’m aware how much water animals consume when compared to plants and there are crops that are simply unjustifiable and are running water reservoirs dry.
If we are to be intellectualy honest regarding preservation of resources, there are no sacred cows.
Its not that. It’s people taking some payment for having to do the store’s job for them.
Yeah you definitely shouldn’t ring up pine nuts as de-shelled sunflower seeds, or use the scan-one add-three to your bag technique at self-checkout 👀
