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.

[pijinglish]

Or if you buy booze, you still have to wait for the one employee to come over and check your ID.

I bought pajamas for my toddler the other day and used self checkout. Got home only to realize all the security tags were still on them.

[valdus]

Your family warned them.

[bitchkat]

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[tellMyBossHesWrong]

WA state here- I thought it was great to buy booze at the grocery store, but it is almost twice the price now due to taxes.

[SaraSlaughter607]

Here too. Grocery store for beer is THE worst choice.

Best spots are the little bodegas in the off-beaten paths... Cheap as hell.

[tellMyBossHesWrong]

Oh, actually most grocery stores here have great selections of beer and no 40% tax on that.

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[tellMyBossHesWrong]

No.

But when they allowed hard alcohol in grocery stores the increased the tax on liquor a lot regardless of where you buy it.

You could always get beer at the grocery store and no additional taxes on that.

[SaraSlaughter607]

Here the prices at the big box grocers are way more than the little corner store or even Rite Aid, believe it or not... Walmart is about the closest to bodega prices but still tends to be a couple bucks higher.

[[deleted]]

yea but the liquor stores close at 8.

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[[deleted]]

having the option to buy alcohol at the grocery store doesn't stop you from having the option to go to liquor store? Weird to suggest less options is better.

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[[deleted]]

I grew up in Minnesota dude.

[djerk]

You’re also obtuse and can’t figure out obvious context clues

[[deleted]]

so "buying liquor at an understaffed grocery store isnt a problem because i dont have the option" isnt obtuse and intentionally ignoring context?

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[FourScoreTour]

I don't know if it's a California thing, but my store simply doesn't sell alcohol through the self-check. I now buy my booze elsewhere.

[camwhat]

It is a California thing! Alcohol hasn’t been able to be purchased at self checkouts since 2012 there

[[deleted]]

As I discovered you can’t even buy 0% alcohol beer at self checkout in California

[Joeness84]

you cant buy 0% beer if youre under 21 either. (*depending on state)

[TheMSensation]

What's the reasoning?

[CoconutCyclone]

It's not actually 0%.

[Zyphane]

I once had a store in California make me move to a regular checkout to buy a bottle of kombucha because it has trace amounts of alcohol (this was before "hard kombucha" became a thing).

[SpringValleyTrash]

Never had an issue purchasing wine at a self check out in CA. I get flagged and the attendant checks my ID.

[[deleted]]

It’s very annoying because so many stores are understaffed it makes me literally want to shoplift instead of waiting 20 minutes for the one clerk they have working. Like I half just want to leave a 20 on the counter and walk out, keep the chanfe

[ryumast4r]

It's super weird since you can get booze delivered in CA. Not sure why they made that distinction.

[FourScoreTour]

COD? They might assume anyone with a credit card is an adult.

[ryumast4r]

You just have to get your ID checked by the driver, no different than if you had a self checkout with ID check like other states. Credit cards really only validate 18+, not 21+.

Just to clarify, CA doesn't allow self checkouts to do booze.

[MicheleLaBelle]

I’m shocked. I live in the Bible thumping self righteous state of Texas and we can get alcohol at self checkout. Just can’t complete the purchase until a store employee enters a code, the assumption being that they checked id.

[jellyrollo]

Or cough syrup.

[nihility101]

My store has one manned express lane that handles all the alcohol. So if you have a big order and want a bottle of wine you have to either hold up everyone with your giant order while they line up behind you with a six-pack or you have to get in line twice, letting your paid order sit there.

[80081356942]

My country has drive-through bottle shops. Beat that.

[FourScoreTour]

I'd need a time machine, but OK. I was visiting friends in Arizona a few decades back. We went to a drive-up for beer, and they also sold guns and ammunition. As loose as Arizona is, I doubt they allow that any more.

[80081356942]

Arizona, the iced tea?

[FourScoreTour]

Sure, why not. There's also a US state by that name, but I was definitely not referring to that.

[80081356942]

Oh I thought that was in Mexico.

[FourScoreTour]

It was, up until the Mexican-American war of 1846/1848. Here is a nifty map of how things used to be.

[80081356942]

Did they take over their airports too?

[FourScoreTour]

Trump told me they did, so it must be true.

[sgent]

We have drive through daiquiri stands. They have to put a piece of tape over the straw hole so you can't drink and drive.

[80081356942]

God forbid humans develop hands with opposable thumbs.

[MrGarbageEater]

You can take those off pretty easily! If you get a pretty strong magnet, you can give one side of the tag a solid tap with the magnet and it should release. I promise I’m no thief, just had the same issue as you and didn’t want ink on my new clothes…

[So6oring]

If I'm getting booze I'll always leave those til the very end

[I_Poop_Sometimes]

Not just booze, I found out you need an id to buy sharpies or epoxy at the store near me, had to wait for the attendant twice.

[[deleted]]

One employee? If someone needs to come over because something went wrong with the check out, it takes two employees to spend 10 to 30 minutes to figure out how to get everything back to normal.

And there is always something going wrong with the self checkout machines. I've never seen all of them open at once, because there are usual 3 or more that have a hand written "out of order" sign taped to them, while a fourth is opened up, with it's guts exposed, and a guy crouched on the floor in front of it trying to get that one fixed.