Self-Service Checkouts!

I'm just wondering, if there has been anyone who have gone to an store really early, and used those self service checkout lines when no one was looking?

I like the self service ones. They are usually faster. I see more and more stores going that way. I hate getting behind some old bat crying cause the price rings up 10 cents off or something. lol. I'm sure there just as useful for buying diapers too. I have mine shipped to me, much more convenient.

I'll use the self checkout when I can, depends if they are busy but they are usually a faster route. I don't hide the fact that I'm buying the Diapers either.

I think those self check out services; are easy because then ya don't stand there thinking oh gosh what are they thinking? That would be my thing. Though I think If I were to buy anything I would do that route.

My cousin told me one day if I ever have guts to go through a line where there is a cute check out clerk, and see if he says or see his looks.. she likes to tease the "cute check out clerks"

Used one today in fact, mostly for convenience, although I have been known to go out of my way to buy diapers from a store that has a self-checkout.

I enjoy the self checkouts when they are available, especially if I only have a few items. They are especially welcome when purchasing items one might find embarrassing.

Yes I do, especially when raiding Wall-mart early in the AM with several packs if diapers in tow.

At Stop and Shop down the street from me they give you a scanner gun and plastic bags to carry around with you. All you have to do it scan your item and put it right into a bag where no one can see it. Then you go to check out and scan this bar code on the register, pay and leave. No one sees what you bought, it's great!! Of course I usually buy my diapers (bambinos) online. But if you don't mind the depend diapers it's very discreet.

Carrying a big bag of diapers up to the checkout is part of the thrill for me so I hope we never go to self checkouts entirely.

😁 😁 😁 😁 i work 2nd shift and all stores around me use self check outs after 10:p.m, the only time they will open a regular checkout late at night is if you have more than 30 items. 😁 😁 😁 😁

I hate those things they never work right, then you draw more attention to your self when you need to get it reset, I check out who is working and what line before I buy, then play from there 😉

I like the self check outs at Mejiers, easy to get through it with diapers and things you want to get in a bag as fast as possible.

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If you're shy, the self checkouts would be the way to go. The only thing I'd add would be to use them several times to get acquainted with how they work at that store. I hated them at first but they are getting better and now prefer to use them. If you look lost about how to use them the employees come running over to help. So you want to make sure you know what you're doing.

Now the others here, a little confusion with your bags of diapers at the register would be quite a conversation topic…..

If you are old, there is no need to hide them since people assume you are incontinent and don’t give it a second thought. If a younger person were to make a comment about them, I would tell him/her to die young because you are not tough enough to become a senior citizen.

Self checkouts are great if you tend to buy embarrassing things. Diapers, fleet enemas, suppositories, girdles…etc!

The large, department store of our area that sells groceries, has a pharmacy and nearly everything else, went mostly self checkouts several years ago. It was kinda nice if I needed to grab a few ‘personal’ items that were sometimes a bit cheaper or just convenient at times.

That discretion didn't last too long though, as they soon after converted greeters and former check out clerks to door checkers. The store in my nearest town have people at the door who regularly do quick checks of receipts with items purchased as customers leave the store.

AND, as of a few months ago that same store did away with hand carts. Now if you go in to grab just a few ‘personal’' items, you have to either carry your suppositories, multi pack enemas, wipes, etc. in your hands in plain view or put that small amount of items in a large wire cart with everything in plain view, to take to the self checkout.

I still buy 99% of my otc constipation and hemorrhoid products from one of two chain store drugstores (both same company) in town, where I have been buying that kind of stuff for years. No self checkouts there (yet) and they still have the very convenient and discreet hand carry carts.

Judging by the date this post was created, nobody really used the internet to buy things. If you are uneasy about someone seeing what you are buying, then you have it delivered right to your door! Thanks, Jeff Bezos! Now, if you like to be noticed, or like the thrill of someone seeing what you are buying, then you go to the store in front of God and everyone and buy your personal items. I assume the majority of us buy online and have it discreetly delivered right to our door!

I use the self-checkouts at WalMart since you can get through there fast. The teller lines usually have people with 2348923 things in a cart. Today, you can look at Google and see how busy the store is. I've never had an issue buying diapers at WalMart and using the checkout line. No one even looks. I mean, they sell the products in the store so why should you have to be ashamed to buy them?

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Perhaps a bit off the beaten path, but I do not use self-checkout. Every self-checkout position is a job lost to corporate greed. Any savings of a reduced payroll are passed to corporate officers and not to shareholders or customers. Seriously, does a CEO who makes $20 million/year really need more?

Yes, when I first started buying diapers for myself there was no such thing as internet shopping or self-checkouts, and yes, I was embarassed. However, not once was a purchase commented upon by a cashier or anyone else. In fact, I've engaged other customers in conversations while waiting to pay for my diapers.

My advice, if requested, is to buy online if concerned any person might see you buying adult diapers. I firmly believe anyone watching will think nothing of it.

The OP asked...

I'm just wondering, if there has been anyone who have gone to an store really early, and used those self service checkout lines when no one was looking?

There is always a camera on those checkouts, so someone can see you no matter the time.

@Mullanphy I do not use self-checkout.......

Well said! We don't use them either.

...I do not use self-checkout.

We avoid them as best we can. The number of times a "problem" arose while using self-check out has far out numbered those times when using a cashier. Store did not matter.

Must confess I am not a fan of automated check-outs but the stores are cutting staff to where one is all but forced to resort to them. I feel for the people whose jobs are sacrificed to the technology. However that is the history of progress; not many towns have a blacksmith anymore; trains obviously don’t have firemen (who remembers what their job was?) and my lovely village hasn’t employed a lamplighter in years…but then they do have public work staff that change street lights and I suspect that someone has a job repairing auto-teller machines. As for buying discreetly; someone probably knows anyway and as several have, probably correctly, noted..no one really cares. Now if I was buying my favorite pair of nursery print adult plastic panties; well that might draw some attention.

I absolutely hate these check outs and will only use them as an absolute last resort and on the very few times I have had to use them, it has cost more time and bother. As something always jams the thing up such as an unclear barcode. I hate them!

I have noticed on the news they have a new type of self check out. I see people with items and they are running out of the store as fast as they can. That other self check out it has a nick name, oh yeah, Smash and Grab!

If we are going to use them, then we might as well be compensated for them. The look on the Walmart employers face says it all when I am asked if I need anything else. I always ask when can I expect my W-2 in the mail from Walmart? When asked if I am an employee of Walmart, I say no, but if your company is going to make me use the self-checkout then I should be paid for doing someone else's job.

I will not use the self checkouts. If no regular line is open I just stop and leave my cart with the employee watching the self check lane. If they ask to see my receipt then off to customer service and return every item. Because they made me feel like a thief. I am retired and do not give a damm anymore. Must take a while to put 200 items back.

I very much dislike self check out. The fact is though we are slowly being forced into it. I read a book titled The McDonaldization of America. In it they discussed the endless means corporate America has turned to make our lives a little harder and them a lot richer. At the end of the book they talked about things we as customers can do to fight this trend. The one that really stuck in my head and I use often is NEVER return your shopping cart like a good citizen. I make a point to park way out in the lot. I take my groceries to my car and abandon the cart SAFELY out in the boonies. This requires an employee to make a trek out to retrieve it. My way to stick it to the MAN. I don't do this at stores that have checkout staff. But WalMart? You know I'm coming for you....

Do not like self checkout at stores.

Personally, I'd rather stand in line at the checkout counter, hopefully have two or three customers ahead of me, so I could wet my diapers and feel how nice it is to surround my pp with warm wet soggy diapers. I'm never in a rush, just standing there among other people who haven't a clue what I'm doing is enough of a rush for me.