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It's stupid on so many levels.

From the out sourced programming for them, to the "Please remove all items and start over", followed up by "Please call the attendant".

I refuse to use them, with out the attendant there, ideally scanning each item her self.

What's next. They're going to open a restaraunt where they dupe you into cooking your own food? And then probably charge a premium cuz "its so effin cool"

Hey I could go for some Singapore Steamboat

I wouldn't mind the self checkouts so much if they actually worked good. That AND you have to hope that the people in front of you are not morons.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

I was in a BofA

THAT was your mistake right there.

epitaph says

Just wanted to rant about something that has bothered me for a few years, the self checkout at the super market. Whenever you agree to scan and bag your own groceries for free, you are taking somebody else's job duties without compensation. That pretty much sums it up. Don't be a sucker and work for free.

You forgot about all the people they have to hire to de-moronize the self checkout.

Make something idiot proof, they invent a better idiot. Then they invent the class action lawyer to sue over it.

Wells Fargo seems to hire bimbos with heaving cleavages to be tellers. They can see all your personal information and your bank account balance before wafting perfume your direction. They use their jobs as bimbo radar for asset dates. That is really what they want to know about you anyway, not that you are a good person.

Should that be called "ass for assets" or "asset rape"?, Rin beware.

epitaph says

Just wanted to rant about something that has bothered me for a few years, the self checkout at the super market.

My favorite super market doesn't have or need self-service checkouts. Wages for checkers and baggers are built into the prices like $20 for a one-pound steak and $15 for a six pack of beer. I suggest trying a less proletarian grocery store.

Whenever you agree to scan and bag your own groceries for free, you are taking somebody else's job duties without compensation. That pretty much sums it up. Don't be a sucker and work for free.

Whenever you check yourself out you're not paying for some one's wages plus FICA, Medicare, state and federal unemployment insurance taxes, workman's comp insurance, overhead like payroll costs, and perhaps expensive benefits like health insurance.

Depending on the incremental value of your time that can be a good or bad deal. If it means giving up billable hours at several hundred dollars each you should pay some one to shop for you. You're better off taking care of yourself when you're struggling to make ends meet with a salaried position or hourly job where they limit how much you work.

errc says

What's next. They're going to open a restaraunt where they dupe you into cooking your own food?

Yup.

Rok Bistro in Sunnyvale

And then probably charge a premium cuz "its so effin cool"

Nope. I paid $12 for my last steak at the Rok versus $36 when I had my local brew pub cook one for me.

If stockholders and owners of grocery stores have to pay employees, or refrain from dumping garbage in city parks, or piss in bathrooms instead of out in the open, they'll just pass the costs of doing so on to their customers.

Sorry, but I ain't payin'!

sbh says

Ceffer says

Wells Fargo seems to hire bimbos with heaving cleavages to be tellers. They can see all your personal information and your bank account balance before

...shrieking to everyone in line behind you "Do you know how much money you have in this account? Don't you want to speak to one of our account advisers?" "Yes, and no, honey, just as I told you every last time I've been in here, so lower your voice and do exactly as I say, thank you very much."

If you are concerned about unwanted attention from the WF tellers yet for whatever reason want to continue to bank there the solution is simple: Make your WF account your secondary account with the absolute minimum balance you need. $2-5k should be plenty for most day to day needs but be well below the threshold of interest from even the most desperate teller.

sbh says

When I retired and closed my WF biz account it was easy to choose between them and BofA. BofA just says "of course" and "thank you".

I take it you haven't had to navigate their Byzantine phone tree system.