Home Depot Self Checkout

[VFilms]

I told my wife I like using the self checkout at Home Depot. I get want I need and check myself out. I don’t have to talk to anyone or deal with anyone. She said they’re probably just as thrilled as I am.

 

[Red63440]

I like how she thinks!

 

[Fran Blacker]

My wife digs me like that. Buying a $500 stove sales woman selling extended warranty. Says if you broke the glass top it costs $800 to fix it! Me, I'd buy another $500 stove. Wife "Mister nice guy at it again". Me just telling her the facts. Then half hour of silent treatment.

 

[JimCoronette]

If I have to check myself out, shouldn't I be paid the $10/hr that the cashier gets paid?
Yeah it's only $0.16, but it adds up.

 

[VFilms]

My wife digs me like that. Buying a $500 stove sales woman selling extended warranty. Says if you broke the glass top it costs $800 to fix it! Me, I'd buy another $500 stove. Wife "Mister nice guy at it again". Me just telling her the facts. Then half hour of silent treatment.

Simple math. And I’d look forward to the half hour of silence.

 

[R413]

I like it but I stopped using self checkout, I’m not an unpaid employee anymore. They need to hire employees to do that task.

 

[33 IMP]

Self checkout for me is an easy choice, though I don't like doing the employees work for them. If I have twenty items, some of which have to be weighed or looked up, cashier all the way. If I have three items, and all the cashiers are busy with people that have twenty items, I do it myself. Whatever is easiest, for ME!
Funny thing, in california you can't self check booze, in Arizona they don't care.

 

[Runcharger]

If a store doesn't value my business enough to have an employee there to take my money I might as well buy the crap online.

 

[Slap Stick]

If they can have people working with the customers using the self checkout line, why don't they really help customers and tend a cash register?

 

[33 IMP]

If they can have people working with the customers using the self checkout line, why don't they really help customers and tend a cash register?

Cause they can have one person tending ten self checkouts, instead of ten actual cashiers?
So they can check out ten people at a time, instead of just one?

 

[VFilms]

Man, you guys are tough. It was meant to be a joke.

 

[Ironbuilt]

I think that I should receive the 10% employee discount when I use the self checkout.

 

[ZR9B]

Self check out all the way.. they are to slow and I'm on a mission no time to screw around

 

[gkent]

Says if you broke the glass top it costs $800 to fix it! Me, I'd buy another $500 stove.

I doubt warranty covers a broken top - if we're talking cracked glass!

 

[440 PHIXX]

Amazon has opened two stores with no cashiers or checkout. They scan as you pick up the item and cameras everywhere.

I’ve never bought anything from Amazon.

 

[zyzzyx]

When I have to use the self checkout isle, I have a two-for-one sale!

 

[33 IMP]

I had a friend buy me something onAmazon, cause it was 1/3 the price of the brick and mortar store. That's it.
I don't trust Amazon with my info any farther than I can throw a Buick, so I bought a gift card so I could buy something from them without telling them ****.
They refused to honor the gift card. Out $60.
A few years later, I found something I wanted so I decided to try again. Same result. Out only $40 this time.
**** amazon!

 

[Dajkzo]

The one that really gets me is here in Maine, they banned plastic bags, but.......
“bans single-use plastic carry-out bags, which includes any thin-film plastic bags less than 4 mils [thousandths of an inch] thick and also requires that paper carry-out bags designed to carry 8 pounds or more contain at least 20 percent post-consumer recycled content. Additionally, establishments must charge a fee of at least 5-cents per carry-out bag allowed under the new law, both paper and plastic."

The 5-cents goes to the business and it's their discretion on what they do with it. The major foodstore chain is Hannaford and they charge for each paper bag. I never liked the plastic, but it just bugs me that most businesses charge for what used to be figured into their markup. I now shop at a small country store.
A friend's wife said "you should bring your own reusable bags like people do in Europe". My reply was "Do I look like someone who carries a purse? And **** Europe, I'm in the US,"

 

[33 IMP]

The one that really gets me is here in Maine, they banned plastic bags, but.......
“bans single-use plastic carry-out bags, which includes any thin-film plastic bags less than 4 mils [thousandths of an inch] thick and also requires that paper carry-out bags designed to carry 8 pounds or more contain at least 20 percent post-consumer recycled content. Additionally, establishments must charge a fee of at least 5-cents per carry-out bag allowed under the new law, both paper and plastic."

The 5-cents goes to the business and it's their discretion on what they do with it. The major foodstore chain is Hannaford and they charge for each paper bag. I never liked the plastic, but it just bugs me that most businesses charge for what used to be figured into their markup. I now shop at a small country store.
A friend's wife said "you should bring your own reusable bags like people do in Europe". My reply was "Do I look like someone who carries a purse? And **** Europe, I'm in the US,"

At least in Maine the store that provides the product, the services, and the bags, get the money!
In california, the business has to provide the bag, the customer has to pay for the bag (bags paid for TWICE, so far ) and then California seizes the money for a "recycling program". Somebody in the state government somewhere is skimming a shitload of money. What is saddest is that f-ing stupid californicators VOTED for this stupidity. When im asked if I want a bag (meaning, do I want to PAY for a bag) I loudly say, "No thanks, I'm from Arizona, we're not STUPID enough to pay for bags!"
P.s. don't get me started on the recycling charges on cans and bottles in california!
I suppose I should just delete this post, a little too political for the jokes section, tho it does say anything goes!

 

[Ron H]

Of course, it's no mystery that self-checkout is to reduce staff. I've used it countless times at home depot and fine with it. BUT when I buy groceries, some of this stuff, mostly produce, requires some screen searching to categorize what the item is and/or buy by its weight. THIS is a PIA. Even staff at self-checkout assisting me has had some problems so I'd guess I would have. Make this simple without completing some educational course...I'm just buying friggin groceries...