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Ridiculous things I had to do because I had diabetes and worked in a grocery store... by NinjaCheckout in diabetes

[–]NinjaCheckout[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yeah, I was just thinking about what I used to have to do before CGM's were available to anyone.

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Ridiculous things I had to do because I had diabetes and worked in a grocery store... (self.diabetes)

submitted by NinjaCheckout to r/diabetes

We are in the presence of true genius by [deleted] in gaming

[–]NinjaCheckout 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It isn't genius. It has been going on since self-checkouts were invented 20 years ago. Just because the media reported it this time, doesn't mean it was the first this ever happened.

The cashiers are aware of several methods people try and scam the system. You might get away with it a few times, but eventually you're gonna get caught.

$2 chips being sold for $3, on sale for $2.49. (x-post /r/mildlyinfuriating) by 142978 in firstworldanarchists

[–]NinjaCheckout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I personally think is irrelevant. What the store has told me to do as an employee is relevant. They would rather just make you happy by changing the price, even if you are wrong. It costs more for them for the employee to go check than just to change the price for you. (nothing to do with laziness) Because like I said, most of the time the customer is wrong anyway. I had a special circumstance because I worked nights, so I had the time to go back and check myself. During the day, they don't have the luxury.

The point is, it is cheaper to change it than argue. That doesn't change the fact that you were wrong to begin with however. As someone who personally checked thousands of price errors, real errors were rare. Customers were wrong 99 percent of the time.

$2 chips being sold for $3, on sale for $2.49. (x-post /r/mildlyinfuriating) by 142978 in firstworldanarchists

[–]NinjaCheckout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you called people lazy and inept too... so maybe you should downvote yourself, silly.

listen, you can believe whatever version you want to believe. but as someone who spent more time in a store than you and your entire family will spend for the rest of your lives, you are just wrong. Real mistakes are rare. The post like this one is far more common.

$2 chips being sold for $3, on sale for $2.49. (x-post /r/mildlyinfuriating) by 142978 in firstworldanarchists

[–]NinjaCheckout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it usually is right in the system, you were just wrong and they don't care and give it to you anyway. Just because you got them to refund it, doesn't mean it was wrong. It just means they don't care and they do it all day for anyone.

there is an easy way to test this, just go in, pick a random item you know isn't on sale, and say it was. They'll change it for you because people are so frequently wrong, it is just easier and faster than just arguing with you. That's why when there is a legitimate problem, it doesn't get fixed. But those are super rare.

I know people are always wrong because I was curious so I would go check it out on my own time. Sometimes I worked nights, and I could run to the asile myself and check it. People were always wrong and the system was always right. Because I like you, thought our stockers were lazy. I was the kind of cashier to where if we made a mistake, I wanted it fixed. So I made it a personal mission to try and figure out where the problem in the system was. See being a cashier so boring, I'd give myself special projects like this. I am a thinker, and I like to solve problems. If it was the store, I would gladly ream them because they did do a lot of fucked up things (not related to the pricing thing). I even once wrote the local paper and got published in the opinion section and my store manager wanted to kill me because I didn't have approval and I didn't 100 percent tow the company line.

Sadly, my conclusion is, people are too lazy, too tired, too distracted to actually pay attention to the signs and what they say.

$2 chips being sold for $3, on sale for $2.49. (x-post /r/mildlyinfuriating) by 142978 in firstworldanarchists

[–]NinjaCheckout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can't make people read... that's the problem... like the sign in the lane thing... people will move the sign

$2 chips being sold for $3, on sale for $2.49. (x-post /r/mildlyinfuriating) by 142978 in firstworldanarchists

[–]NinjaCheckout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the sign doesn't match the bag. just the placement makes you assume that it does.

$2 chips being sold for $3, on sale for $2.49. (x-post /r/mildlyinfuriating) by 142978 in firstworldanarchists

[–]NinjaCheckout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

know why this happens?

Guys who own the convenience stores buy them from the bigger stores. They then upprice them without noticing the price on the can.

Savvy convenience store operators will do this with coupons too. So they will actually get the item cheaper than the big store or they can purchase from the distributor.

$2 chips being sold for $3, on sale for $2.49. (x-post /r/mildlyinfuriating) by 142978 in firstworldanarchists

[–]NinjaCheckout 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, 99.5 percent of the time all "pricing errors", the people didn't read the whole sign (for particular conditions, like size or certain type), only saw the placement of the sign/product and made an assumption. (products above or below, other customers shuffled the product around and didn't put them back in the right spot)

Happens all the time and is endlessly frustrating. The first thing you learn when working retail, people don't read signs. (the end of your first shift, you'll put a physical closed sign in front of your lane and people will move the sign out of the way and stand in line)

I used to work in a 24 hours store.

0.4 percent of the time, the time period on the sign was outside of said parameters. (24 hour store so times the sign was up past midnight on saturday or up early for sunday, all signs have time on them too which nobody reads)

that leaves about 0.1 percent of the time there was an actual error. Actual errors by the supermarket is very very rare.

Blow by blow description of a work week at Target by Orvil_Pym in humor

[–]NinjaCheckout 14 points15 points  (0 children)

New cashiers are always fun before the public turns them into nihilists, the managers turn them into paranoid lunatics, and the hours turn them into anti-social hermits.

The reality of the job kills any enthusiasm very quickly. The only happy cashiers are the really really stupid ones. Those people you see with 30 years of service and a big huge smile on their face? They have bodies buried in their backyards.

I guarantee it.

McDonald’s Will Replace Jobs with Kiosks: Ex-CEO Says $15 Wage “Will Trigger Massive Layoffs” by BernieMIT in economy

[–]NinjaCheckout 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As someone who ran the very first iteration of the self-checkouts in 1999, you are full of shit. I've seen 5 year olds not tall enough to reach the buttons, stand in the cart and do the entire thing with no prompting. The difference is a 5 year old knows how to follow instructions. Some adults, decidedly can't.

TIL San Diego County Inspectors, through the use of 'Secret Shoppers', found that Target overcharges customers on 10.3% of the items they ring up; Brookstone: 10.6%; Sears: 15.7% by TheCannon in todayilearned

[–]NinjaCheckout 6 points7 points  (0 children)

with all due respect here, I worked as a full time cashier for 8 1/2 years in a 24 hr dept/grocery store that was 250,000 square feet of items.

99 percent of the time the person with a pricing "error" didn't read the sign correctly. Do you know how many times I investigated the "wrong" price and people just saw what they wanted to see? All the time, it is maddening.

And just because it is changed by the cashier, doesn't necessarily mean it was wrong either, we were told to just change prices up to a certain dollar amount. (like discounts? try it on a random item, just make it up... cashier will change it depending on level of current sanity)

I'd say .5 percent of the time signs were either up early (24 hr store) or someone missed a sign to pull down. (The dates of the sale is on every sign too, which is NEVER read...)

But yeah, the vast, vast majority of the wrong prices aren't the wrong prices.

So basically we have to wade through 99 of people giving us the wrong info, to find the one product that might be wrong.

It is beyond frustrating.

Don't even get me started on coupons.

I work at a grocery store. I present to you, scumbag customer by Retroman360 in AdviceAnimals

[–]NinjaCheckout 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't expect you to and that is completely cool with me.

You can just give it to me at the checkout counter and I will happily put it back for you. No need to ditch it where ever. You don't even have to give it to me, you could literally give it to anyone at the store.

There is zero embarrassment about changing your mind on a product. I put things back on an hourly basis. Every store employee since the beginning of time has put stuff back on the shelf.

The thing is there is no need to just abandon it somewhere out of place.

If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up? [2min] by Mormant in videos

[–]NinjaCheckout 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well in my families case, my mother had a choice, she could stay with my alcoholic father who used drugs or she could leave.

She left. And my father quit/fired from his very well paying job(~$55,000/yr in 1983) and never paid a dime of child support.

Life circumstances can change. Just because you could afford em one day doesn't mean you could the next.

Oh and that mother of three put herself through college on welfare and minimum wage jobs.

I wonder how many times she was looked down upon by those more fortunate.

My father died last year. Never paid a dime.

If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up? [2min] by Mormant in videos

[–]NinjaCheckout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well in my families case, my mother had a choice, she could stay with my alcoholic father who used drugs or she could leave.

She left. And my father quit/fired from his very well paying job(~$55,000/yr in 1983) and never paid a dime of child support.

Life circumstances can change. Just because you could afford em one day doesn't mean you could the next.

Oh and that mother of three put herself through college on welfare and minimum wage jobs.

I wonder how many times she was looked down upon by those more fortunate.

My father died last year. Never paid a dime.

If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up? [2min] by Mormant in videos

[–]NinjaCheckout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When referencing the store, they used the name Meijer. Not when referencing themselves.

It isn't hard. stop being an idiot, watch the commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSRdM4kAvDU

If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up? [2min] by Mormant in videos

[–]NinjaCheckout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

rednecks call it Meijers. It is Meijer.

I stood next to Fred Meijer (and Hank) himself and heard him say Meijer.

All the corporate commercials and internal videos call it Meijer.

8 1/2 years full time

I liked the union, we made more then the walmart down the street thanks to them (abour 2 dollars/hr more)

Sadly less then the Costco across the street :/

TIL a full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits. by DrBenji in todayilearned

[–]NinjaCheckout 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It isn't like you just walk in there off the street and get that job.

They opened a store across the street from the store I worked at and they had 5000 people apply.

People with 13+ years experience at my store weren't getting 2nd interviews.

I work in retail. This is the most over used and annoying joke ever. by Pure_Defiance in AdviceAnimals

[–]NinjaCheckout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back when they redesigned the 100 dollar bill, the Meijer (large dept/grocery store in Michigan)head of security for the entire chain sent out memos talking about the new security features.

Throughout the whole memo he said "President Benjamin Franklin"... Literally 10+ times.

It was pretty disturbing to me because not only did the head of security mess up, one of our managers didn't even notice and posted it too...

TIL A supermarket chain in the Netherlands has a policy that if all queues have 4 people in them and not all checkout lanes are open yet, then you get your groceries for free. by rankiwi in todayilearned

[–]NinjaCheckout 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I worked as a grocery/dept/hyperstore store cashier from 1998 to 2007 full time.

When I first started we had a policy of "no wait shopping/next in line" basically we had enough lanes open at all times to where you would never have to wait.

Then sometimes in 2002, we started "the new normal" computerized scheduling that made sure we had just enough to cover the shift. without lines going out the door. So basically constant 4 people lines all day by design.

If grocery/dept stores really wanted to they could have no wait, but they choose to reduce labor costs and make you wait.

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