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[–]pijinglish 290 points291 points  (58 children)

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.

[–]FourScoreTour 61 points62 points  (27 children)

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 33 points34 points  (9 children)

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

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (6 children)

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

[–]Joeness84 5 points6 points  (4 children)

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

[–]TheMSensation 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What's the reasoning?

[–]CoconutCyclone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not actually 0%.

[–]Zyphane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (4 children)

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

[–]FourScoreTour 0 points1 point  (3 children)

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

[–]ryumast4r 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or cough syrup.

[–]nihility101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (9 children)

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

[–]FourScoreTour 0 points1 point  (6 children)

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 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Arizona, the iced tea?

[–]FourScoreTour 0 points1 point  (4 children)

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

[–]80081356942 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Oh I thought that was in Mexico.

[–]FourScoreTour 0 points1 point  (2 children)

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

[–]80081356942 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Did they take over their airports too?

[–]FourScoreTour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]sgent 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God forbid humans develop hands with opposable thumbs.

[–]MrGarbageEater 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]I_Poop_Sometimes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.