Ah I wondered when Aldi would do this, it’s my only gripe with them, unless I’m the lucky one who hears “we are now opening till number 3” just as I’m passing it.
Bad move Aldi. Do they really trust their customers to pay for everything? Put through a bottle of wine as 400g of potatoes, easy.
It’s not the true Aldi experience without the cashier firing your shopping at you at the speed of sound
It’s like the 1800’s all over again. In the next 20 years we’re going to see huge numbers of retail workers forced out of their job by a progression of this technology. Let’s hope we see a neo-luddite movement to protest this.
Not Aldi, but a Lidl in my home town opened up a few years ago. It had self checkout on opening, which I thought was amazing. However they used it for 1 day and then closed and removed after.
Oh dear.. Aldi dont know about the darker side of London 😅
I want to take my mother to one of these just so I can see how long it takes her to comprehend that I’ve just walked in, put an item in my pocket and walked out while a security guard watched and said nothing.
I’m certain she would call me out before I even left the store. I recon it would take a couple of days to compute even if the guard said it was how things are done there.
In Switzerland they also only have 1 or 2 people on the tills. They only open up a new one when the line gets long.
Although the problem with most self checkouts is they make you scan the item and place it down before you can scan the next one (or start packing). If anything goes on or off, it all freezes up till it’s corrected. It’s so annoying. I’ve only found a couple places that don’t do that and are actually user friendly. Half the time you always need a person to help fix your checkout or approve something…
> The German-owned retailer said shoppers will also be able to buy alcohol using facial age estimation technology to check whether they appear to be over the age of 25.
Coincidentally, this week’s special buy on Mick Jagger masks is unexpectedly popular.
I just wish my local one had self serve checkouts. Nothing worse than getting stuck behind somebody shopping for a football team when you only have a handful of items
People doing their full weeks shop should not be using self-checkouts. The scanning takes up half for the time trying to get the thing to detect the barcode.
I see it all time when I go to either Asda or Tesco where there’s the self checkout for trollies. It takes them an age and the queue is just as bad.
For baskets and 10 items or less it works but anything more is just a complete shit show.
This is old news, we’ve had no cashiers at ours for years.
Those talking about theft haven’t seen how much gets thrown away because people aren’t smart or can’t be bothered to put things back. I’ll just put this can of beans and refrigerated fish in the freezer and crush all the fruit and veg. Let me just take all the specials out of their boxes even though they have like 3 months return.
There used to be so much at the end of a night when I worked for them also police don’t care about shop lifting they just send a pcso to get the dvd later on, if your going to chase them £11 an hour you need your head screwing on.
I deliberately don’t use the robot aisle in every supermarket.
They’ll need 5 of these for every cashier just to keep up.
I used to use the self checkouts until they added the spy cams that scan your face, and kink it to your card details.
These cameras do nothing to stop theft. unlike the cams in poundland, which pint at the actual till to record everything younscan.
Allthese cams are really used for is facial recognition, connected to your details on your card, and shared with third party companies.
Since neerly every shoo has these spy cams, i have reverted tinusing the old style checkouts with a cashier. Its slower, but i refuse to be scanned, and traded.
Also, I dont have a phone. I have not used one for 7 years now, and i dont intend to buy one ever again. So no checkout shops wont work for me, or others without a phone.
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Ah I wondered when Aldi would do this, it’s my only gripe with them, unless I’m the lucky one who hears “we are now opening till number 3” just as I’m passing it.
Bad move Aldi. Do they really trust their customers to pay for everything? Put through a bottle of wine as 400g of potatoes, easy.
It’s not the true Aldi experience without the cashier firing your shopping at you at the speed of sound
It’s like the 1800’s all over again. In the next 20 years we’re going to see huge numbers of retail workers forced out of their job by a progression of this technology. Let’s hope we see a neo-luddite movement to protest this.
Not Aldi, but a Lidl in my home town opened up a few years ago. It had self checkout on opening, which I thought was amazing. However they used it for 1 day and then closed and removed after.
Oh dear.. Aldi dont know about the darker side of London 😅
I want to take my mother to one of these just so I can see how long it takes her to comprehend that I’ve just walked in, put an item in my pocket and walked out while a security guard watched and said nothing.
I’m certain she would call me out before I even left the store. I recon it would take a couple of days to compute even if the guard said it was how things are done there.
In Switzerland they also only have 1 or 2 people on the tills. They only open up a new one when the line gets long.
Although the problem with most self checkouts is they make you scan the item and place it down before you can scan the next one (or start packing). If anything goes on or off, it all freezes up till it’s corrected. It’s so annoying. I’ve only found a couple places that don’t do that and are actually user friendly. Half the time you always need a person to help fix your checkout or approve something…
> The German-owned retailer said shoppers will also be able to buy alcohol using facial age estimation technology to check whether they appear to be over the age of 25.
Coincidentally, this week’s special buy on Mick Jagger masks is unexpectedly popular.
I just wish my local one had self serve checkouts. Nothing worse than getting stuck behind somebody shopping for a football team when you only have a handful of items
People doing their full weeks shop should not be using self-checkouts. The scanning takes up half for the time trying to get the thing to detect the barcode.
I see it all time when I go to either Asda or Tesco where there’s the self checkout for trollies. It takes them an age and the queue is just as bad.
For baskets and 10 items or less it works but anything more is just a complete shit show.
This is old news, we’ve had no cashiers at ours for years.
Those talking about theft haven’t seen how much gets thrown away because people aren’t smart or can’t be bothered to put things back. I’ll just put this can of beans and refrigerated fish in the freezer and crush all the fruit and veg. Let me just take all the specials out of their boxes even though they have like 3 months return.
There used to be so much at the end of a night when I worked for them also police don’t care about shop lifting they just send a pcso to get the dvd later on, if your going to chase them £11 an hour you need your head screwing on.
I deliberately don’t use the robot aisle in every supermarket.
They’ll need 5 of these for every cashier just to keep up.
I used to use the self checkouts until they added the spy cams that scan your face, and kink it to your card details.
These cameras do nothing to stop theft. unlike the cams in poundland, which pint at the actual till to record everything younscan.
Allthese cams are really used for is facial recognition, connected to your details on your card, and shared with third party companies.
Since neerly every shoo has these spy cams, i have reverted tinusing the old style checkouts with a cashier. Its slower, but i refuse to be scanned, and traded.
Also, I dont have a phone. I have not used one for 7 years now, and i dont intend to buy one ever again. So no checkout shops wont work for me, or others without a phone.