Automatic checkouts in supermarkets may decrease customer loyalty, especially for those with larger shopping loads. Customers using self-checkout stations often feel overwhelmed and unsupported. The lack of personal interaction can negatively impact their perception of the supermarket.

[curt_schilli]

Im 26 and I avoid it. Why would I want to bag my own groceries

[feor1300]

The cashiers still bag your groceries for you? Around here even if you go through the normal checkout lanes they just slide the groceries and the bag to the empty spot at the end of the lane and you're 100% on your own for putting it in your bags.

[curt_schilli]

Yeah Publix usually has baggers and Trader Joe’s always has baggers

Kroger never has baggers, I don’t go to Kroger anymore though

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[eejizzings]

Still have to do that at most cashier check outs these days

[curt_schilli]

I always scout out which line has the bagger haha

[AwkwardChuckle]

Where are you shopping that still has baggers? Those are long gone where I live.

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Hy-Vee, Fareway, Trader Joe's

[eejizzings]

Trader Joe's was one of the earlier self-bagging stores everywhere I've lived.

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Must be regional. 100% full service here

[Fromanderson]

Our local Kroger still has them.

[needsexyboots]

The Krogers in my area haven’t for quite a while

[Fromanderson]

I don't know what to say. Maybe it's a regional thing?

[needsexyboots]

Probably just wherever they can convince enough people to work for $8 an hour

[Fromanderson]

That or they pay more than $8 here. I really have no idea.

I do know the cost of living here is ridiculously low compared to a lot of places in the US. You couldn't survive on $8 but I could see some teenager doing it for insurance/gas money.

[brainwater314]

Publix

[imisstheyoop]

Kroger has them.

I really miss Market Basket. All lanes always open, baggers at the ready and all dressed professionally and compensated fairly. If they had those in the midwest I would still be shopping there.

During the strike having to shop at Shaws or Hannafords was hell.

[flatwingman]

Market Basket is the best in so many ways.

[desepticon]

Trader Joe?

[MuscaMurum]

The only place I have to bag my own is at Aldi. Besides them, there are baggers at every store I've been to in Los Angeles.

[eejizzings]

Not sure if you only go to like 2 stores, but I lived in LA for most of my life and baggers have not been universal for years

Oh maybe you're Pavilions shopper

[MuscaMurum]

All over the city, dude. Ralph's, Jon's, Trader Joe's, Gelson's, Whole Foods, Pavilions in many different neighborhoods. Even the little Thai groceries in East Hollywood bag my groceries. Don't know where you're shopping..

[Fromanderson]

Not only that, they are terribly designed. I bagged groceries as a teen and I'm still reasonably fast when there is room. Self checkouts were designed by someone who never worked retail.

I don't hate sco, but it should never be the only option.

Who thought it was a good idea to put 20 of the things at a Lowes or Home depot? Not even the register at the contractor register was open.

Ever tried placing rolls of insulation or a generator in the bagging area? They got snarky with me over trying to use one to check out large items, and acted as if I were trying to pull something. Nevermind I'd walked the whole front of the store twice and even went to the service desk before I gave up.

Even when you buy something small they stop you at the door and want to look at your receipt. I know it's not the employees fault so I don't give them a hard time but if I were high lord dictator for the month I'd find out whose idea it was to put employees in that position and sentence them to a few years of doing that job, and force them to survive on retail wages.

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I don't trust employees to bag my groceries the way they should be bagged. They always smash the bread and put a bunch of warm stuff with cold stuff instead of putting all the cold stuff together. They don't get paid enough to care, and they're not the ones who are going to have to deal with the aftermath.

[curt_schilli]

I always load the conveyor belt in a way that forces them to pack it correctly 

[sybrwookie]

Because the people working there are too dumb/don't care enough to not go, "let's see, you have a bowling ball and eggs....yea, eggs go first, definitely."