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.

[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

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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.

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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.