Apparently, these people don't even decide what coupons to use until they're being checked out.
If one of my coupons is rejected, I normally save it for use next time. That is, if the cashier doesn't insist I do something more complicated NOW.
I haven't either, just a few at Wal-Mart and some grocery stores. There's always plenty of the regular kind.
I avoid the self checkout if I have anything complicated like unmarked produce.
I've done that before because of a long line.
I knew of a woman trying to buy dog food with food stamps. She took it back and got steak for her dogs. That was covered.
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I certainly don't.
Albertsons, where I usually shop, did the same after their renovation. It was comical that the same week they trashed theirs, Target installed
It was well before the SNAP program but that was one of my friend's complaints about food stamps. iirc another was the store would give change in store coupons that had to be redeemed at the same store.
We solved that problem a few years ago -- tore down K-Mart and built a Cabelas.
K-Mart only 2 miles from here appears to have taken in all the crap from Sears 5 miles from here.
I think the K-Mart did get some Sears stuff, at least the Craftsman tools. For me it was on the other side of town and I seldom went there but when I did there were never many shoppers. About 30 years ago it did okay but then Walmart, Target, and ShopKo came to town.
The Sears near me closed a couple of months ago and were selling off stuff a couple of months before final closing. Having shopped years at the K-Mart I knew a few folks there. The sporting goods department manager quit when they cut his hours and severely cut his benefits. The garden department manager stayed on since her husband is the breadwinner but they just closed the garden center and she is in the general store. Last time I saw her she said it was obvious where the store was heading.
Sears management has had the nerve to blame part of their decline on having to keep paying their pensioners putting a drag on the company.
"Nerve"? No.
Pension and health benefits for retirees are a serious financial drain for many companies, especially those where short-sighted managers negotiating union contracts gave away the store- rather than standing up to union goons' strike threats.
They postponed the high cost payments to the future-- kind of like government officials' deficit spending, especially Democrats of the Obama ilk, have been doing for years.
The chickens will come home to roost for our children and our grandchildren creating a financial- and consequently a societal- meltdown.
Yes, you can blame both management and unions. Today pensions are becoming a thing of the past with employees getting money up front like in increased 401k contributions instead of pensions. Retirees then get nothing from the company when they retire or quit.
One big chain here has some kind of portable electronic thing for each customer. There is a rack that holds 20 or 30 of them by the entrance, so you can take one. I think maybe it totals how much you've put in the cart so far, but i'm just guessing. It's as big as 6 smartphones stacked one on top of another. What could it be, what would it do? Do you like them?
LOL I wonder if the dog will share.
Oh, I agree.
N ever saw one, but heard about them. You scan as you shop then pay at the end.
Since you have to have a quarter to get a shopping cart and bring your own grocery bags, Aldi's is not for me.
Yeah, the psychology of it for managers is to avoid taking a strike, pretty much no matter what. A strike negatively impacts current corporate income which makes the managers look bad. This will usually cost them performance bonus awards.
On the other hand, giving in to sometimes outrageous pension and retirement demands postpones the cost well into the future. It has no real impact on the current balance sheet. In fact it's invisible so the managers "look good" for keeping the doors open and the machines humming.
I know this is how it works. Back in the day, I was on the corporate HR staff (which was called "Personnel" back then) of a Fortune 50 company and was involved in several national UAW contract negotiations. In later years, I consulted with many companies who took the same approach- which I counseled against, often to no avail.
Sierra Trading Post, here. And the other is a now a local furniture store. No teardowns, as I recall, although the facades are much improved.
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That's it! So I took your last words, scan as you shop then pay at the end, and googled that and got a lot of hits.
Answers question from page below, Why no bags provided? They expect you to bring your own re-usable bags, that have handles but stand up by themselves. Already I'm in trouble.
BTW, I don't go to this store often but I don't think I've seen anyone using it in a whole year.
"Shoppers still need to go to a checkout at the end of the process and retailers lose valuable floorspace to make room for storing the handheld scanners. The goal of frictionless shopping has not been fully realized.
But now there?s a new generation of Scan and Go technology. One that replaces the handheld scanner with a simple app on consumers? smartphones. The surge in contactless payments and growing use of mobile payment services, like the various OEM Pay platforms e.g. Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, are testament to the fact that consumers are embracing innovative technology. Now retailers have what they need to take this to the next level.
In the more sophisticated mobile app versions of Scan and Go, shoppers scan items with their smartphones and then easily pay for their shopping in-app, removing the need to wait in line altogether.
Your typical user journey would work like this. You download the Scan and Go app of your chosen retailer at home and link it with your preferred payment card(s). Each time you enter one of the retailer?s stores, you scan items using your phone?s camera and pack as you go. Your app adds each scanned item to your virtual cart and, when you?re done, you pay in-app and walk out of the store. Simple."
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It sounds like a lot of work while shopping, even if easier at the end.
"England has a lot of stores that do this," she told me. "There are videos on YouTube about it." Indeed, there are.
I look at youtube but in 2015, I hadnt' watched any youtube videos about shopping!
"You pull out some paper bags from the kiosk " I'll look again if they have paper bags.
Guy isn't a fan of using smartphones to scan. He says that it's a much more difficult process in doing that, and that the handheld scanners are a lot easier. He also points out that a benefit of using the handheld scanners over the smartphone is that you aren't draining your battery.
[He accidentally shoplifts toilet paper. Daughter reminds him]While there is a payroll and productivity gain in store this is negated by an increase in shrink or theft," Clogan says, adding that some stores, to mitigate this, will randomly check shoppers baskets, to make sure that they've scanned everything.
"Customer feedback regularly refers to the anxiety customers feel, the fear that they will be checked and will be assumed a thief by the checkout assistant. If you have one irregular check you are more likely to get audited again on future shopping trips," he adds.
Shea thinks that when grocery stores are at its most crowded, people probably will grab the scanners and use them to speed up the checkout process. He says that just having the technology automatically improves a store's brand.
"This is especially true for millennials, many of whom already shop or compare prices with their mobile phones," he says.
Shea also says that the technology can free up cashiers to do other tasks, like restocking or interacting with customers**, and he thinks it could cause people to spend more.
**Instead of making the checkout lines shorter.rbowman posted for all of us...
It might be another store in the same chain, IE Kroger's. Or the database might be under the same UPC or ...
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