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The Most Wanted shop in Fleetwood failed to live up to its name and went out of business.
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Forever a turtle, but life update:
Got a job! It's a retail position at a local thrift store chain, which is a tiny bit disheartening for some dumb personal reasons, but it's certainly something - overall, though, it's a good thing. Hopefully it'll help get my finances back in order and a sense of routine again. It'll be a bit rocky at the start, catching up on bills and getting used to retail again, but it's something.
Just wanted to say a genuine thank you to those that helped out and gave well wishes during me rambling on here for a few months. It meant and still means a lot to me, it really does. Hope you all are doing well, too, as always. Rooting for you.
#Satari rambles#It shouldn't be too bad a job and there's actually benefits this time unlike my last retail job#It's just a bit disheartening because I went to retail after graduating the first time and now I'm back even though I have a master's degre#Which is privileged or spoiled-sounding thoughts to have even though I'm glad genuinely to have a job at all after six months without#I know this might only be temporary but I have trouble conceptualizing the future so it's sticking with me like it's a personal failure#Trying not to dwell on that though#Got a job so that means income and routine and hopefully working towards saving to get my own place#Gotta focus on that#Gotta keep positive#Rambling done though#Thanks for reading if you did
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#personal#tag rant#im not sure if it’s just because of the general stress and shit that’s been goin on lately but ive just been losing it today#like i just feel awful about myself and my life and like i feel so fucking stupid for moving away from home just to end up working a shit#retail job and not even going to college#trying to chase some fucking minuscule dream that ive made hardly any headway in#like how fucking stupid am i?#and the worst part is i don’t want to give up on it#cause i know ill never forgive myself if i do cause at the end of the day i love doing it so much#and that just makes me hate myself more#cause i should just go and try to make something of myself and make my family proud and not squander my life and my chances#i just want to make my life worth something#and right now i feel pretty fucking worthless and everyone can see it#fucking failure#and like i know the obvious answers are to just change it#don’t like your life? change it!#i jusy don’t know how when i feel like this#i just don’t know what to do#negativity#delete later
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nishiki’s the type to roast the shit out of majima in the 90s for choosing to wear such tight pants and would laugh wildly when majima retorts saying “just wait. everyone’ll be wearing shit like this soon, i’m just ahead of the curve”. and then when the 2000s come around and skinny jeans are the new norm he sits in his office in the dark, head down on his desk, and cries. because he’s proven to be a failure even at the things he’s most passionate about– and worse, he got bested by goro majima
#goro ‘snakeskin supremacist’ majima#poor guy#nishiki#majima#yakuza#akira nishikiyama#goro majima#these two have such good potential when it comes to interactions they’re fun to think about#rambling#this has the energy of ‘hey you’ve got a mushroom on your shirt’ ‘oh… i’m a failure’#nishiki circa 2009 having to collect up every ounce of courage possible to go to the store and buy slim-fit pants#some poor retail employee at checkout absolutely noticing how this guy seems like he’s about to have a breakdown in the#men’s business-casual section but not wanting to say anything#it’s just sad to watch#he doesn’t even dislike slimmer pants or anything he just keeps hearing majima in his head cackling and the voice of his father#calling him a disappointment
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Neta: training day, training day we're all here for training day. How are we all doing today?
Antho: it is 7:30 in the morning
Neta: yehhhh sorry about that but I have to train everyone and teach them how to close and open my store. So unfortunately for you...Antho. You also have to learn how to open.
Anto: *huff*
Neta: great! The mall is closed. It opens around 10:00 but we have to get here around 7:00. The first thing that I or mahi does is count money, fill the registers. While you guys have to unpack inventory, unload inventory from the trucks annnnd clean up the store. So that means folding shirts, picking up miscellaneous items. Make it look nice and presentable.
Vinny: what do we do first?
Neta: so what we usually do first is to fill the registers. So let's just go to the back here where the money machine is.......It's also my office so if you need anything feel free to come back here. The managers are in charge of withdrawing the money. You guys are responsible for depositing the money....so we usually get $100 worth of 20s for each register $50 worth of 5s, 10s we usually get $30 worth and and another $100 worth of 1s
Fugue: is that the amount we have to do every time?
Neta: this is usually the amount we put in but it can also change depending on how busy it is or how slow it is. So you know if you guys ever become a manager just go with your hunch and how much money you need the day.
Neta: All right so we got the money. Put them in the registers. Safety rule you can never deposit or withdraw the money by yourself. You have to have someone with you at all times just in case something happens.
Anto: like what?
Neta: well a lot can happen
Vinny: I knew this guy who used to stay in the store until closing and when employees were taking the register to the back. He'd push them and snatch the register and run out the door.
Anto: I'm assuming that person was you
Vinny: actually it was my babysitter. He used to watch me and my sister's all the time, he was a nice guy
Neta: ok let's change the subject so after we put in the registers. We go back to the back, the second door to the left next to my office is receiving I also call it storage and you can call it whatever you want.
Naomi: this is a lot bigger than I expected
Neta: yeah it is. We keep boxes back here. New releases, old releases, limited releases
Fugue: what happens when it get overcrowded?
Neta: usually when it gets overcrowded we have a big sale. So we don't do this every morning but this morning we had a truck today. So we go over here......... Lift up this door and you can see the cargo entrance.... It's only a few boxes.
Antho: and you expected to unpack all this?
Neta: No, you have to unload and then unpack.... And their specific ones that you can unpack and then the rest you can leave in the back. Looking at the labels you only need to unpack the 15 and keep the 20 in the back....ok... I'm going to split you guys into groups Vinny and I are going to stay back here to unload fougu you can unpack the items.
Vinny: great this is going to be easy.
Fugue: do you provide a box cutter?
Neta: yep I got a whole desk full in my office just to pick one out. Everything with a blue label we open up immediately. Anything with an orange label we don't open until the set date on it.
Vinny: what about the pink label?
Neta: those we don't open up until next month Those are splat fest tees.
Antho: splatfest tees??? So if we open those boxes we know which splat fest is going to be next
Neta: yeah totally... You also get an automatic termination and blacklisted not only from all the stores in the mall but also around the city. So.............you want to play some stupid games and win some stupid prizes? I'm serious like I'm not even allowed to open it I had to sign a waiver and everything
Antho: that sucks
Neta: yeah I know.....ok....you and Miss Naomi..... you're just going to have to pick up the store You know clean it up. Fold shirts. Organize everything... We do have a system. Everything with the green tag has to be folded. Everything with a red tag is hung up on the rack. Everything with a purple tag is hung up in the front of the store. Any questions?
Antho: I have a question
Neta: what's your question?
Antho: what happened to your ear?
Neta:.............................................................. Do you have any questions regarding your job?
Naomi: is there the proper way we have to fold the shirts
Neta: Great question. we fold them into rectangles so it's small and it gives us space for more shirts. So fold two times on each end....... and you put it together and.......here we go! Make sure that the band or logo is visible. And for the hanging clothes he puts the smallest in the front and largest in the back. ..... Anything else?
Antho: hu-
Neta:No great........ Antho come with me for a sec.
Antho: Am I fired already?
Neta: No, you're not fired and just going to need to ask a quick favor. Listen........You can be as mean and rude as you want to be with me. You can't hurt my feelings....* Inhale*....... The customers on the other hand..........unless they deserve it and trust me there are going to be some people who definitely deserve it but for the ones who don't.... please be nice. Okay?
Antho: ......................
Neta: and also be nice to your fellow employees. I know underneath this little meanie personality you have is a nice kind person
Antho: No, there isn't
Neta: Yes there is and I can sense it and you know what goes great with a nice kind person?
Antho: a reality check
Neta: No. Another nice kind person to keep them company........That's why you'll be working with Naomi! Yayyy!!! you two are going to be sharing the same shifts!! You're going to have a shift buddy.
Antho: whaat? Why?
Neta: because..... She's a nice girl. She's really sweet..... and she's also kind of sensitive and I don't think she'll be able to handle some of our.........
Antho: asshole customers?
Neta: yeah ............ Just be there to back her up if needed. You know I don't want anyone making her cry. Can you do that for me? Can you do this one small gesture or are you just incapable of kindness?
Antho: ..........ugh..... fine I'll help her.......... You better pay me extra
Neta: I'll make you an employee of the month.
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Antho:.....................
Naomi:....................
Antho:.......so............ What's your deal?
Naomi: hm?
Antho: why are you working here?
Naomi: oh...uh........um........I just....... wanted to get out of the house....... ...... yeah
Antho: hmm k..................* Inhale* * exhale*.........(Tap ..Tap.)................ So like you live around here?
Naomi: oh yeah.....I-i do It's usually just one train stop......
Antho: hmmmmmm...... I know you said that you weren't allowed to like disclose what manga you used to work on but like
Naomi: I work on "turf war heart break" and " I love princess Nami "
Antho:I think I saw Vivy read one of those...hm... Probably not....... So you got permission to talk about your work and you won't get fired or anything will you?
Naomi: ............ I only said I wasn't allowed to disclose because I was embarrassed...... I didn't know how y'all would react.
Antho: oh.........well.... They're popular books..... So do you write it or draw it or?
Naomi: I just do outlines for the books That's it............
Antho: that's cool....................
Naomi:........................... I actually work on my own stuff when I'm free.
Antho: oh..... So what's your book about
Naomi: well I'm still working on it. I still haven't gotten the plot or the characters. I'm so just writing ideas down. It's nothing. I'm sorry I'm actually just-
Neta: so how's everything up in the front?
Naomi: * gasp* uhhhh....umm
Antho: we're finished
Neta: I can see that the store looks great! Good job you two
Antho: hum
Naomi:. Hmmm thank you
Neta: well it's around 8:00. Everything is unloaded and unpacked. We just need to take it from the back and put it to the front. We'll do this until 9:45
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Neta: We're all done and it's........ Oh it's only 9:30. Usually that takes longer
Fugue: it could be because you have more people here
Neta: yeah, that's true..... Well while we wait, I guess I can teach you guys how to use the register. It's not hard at all let me put it on training mode and-
Warabie: GOOD MORNING!
Seth: hey guy .....
Neta: Good morning ... . Hey Candi.. ..... You look..... You look great babe....... Look at you you're glowing
Candi: uh huh .... yeah.......* Mumbling*
Antho: did she get hit by a bus this morning? Geez
Neta: shh!...
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Neta:ok we're going to learn how to use the register warabie is going to be right here to help you
Warabie: hi guys
Neta: alright so .... Vinny why don't you go first?
Vinny: alright!
Neta: Great! I'm going to be customers and hand you this item right here so can you ring that up for me?
Vinny: ok...... That will be....... $8 cash or card?
Neta: I'm going to split it
Vinny: ok.. so how do I-
Warabie: so you're going to go to split payment. If they give you cash first you press the cash icon you put in the exact amount that they give you. If they do the card first you go to the card icon and then you put in the exact amount they want to pay. Once the card is approved you take the cash and put it in the register.
Vinny: ok ...... So how much do you want to pay in cash
Neta: I'm going to pay... $4 in cash the rest of my card
Vinny: ok great....... All right, that's something hard to do
Neta: see it's easy. Antho You're up next
Antho: alright...... How can I help you today?.........
Neta: well I like to return this please
Antho:.....k........... I'm assuming you're returning these short shorts because it's not your size.
Warabie: *snort* ha! Hehehe I'm sorry....hehehehe.. that's not funny hehe....*ahem*...... be serious Antho.
Neta:................... Just return it
Antho: I'd love too but I don't know how to do that. So I guess you're stuck with this. If it makes you feel any better, we do have some fishnets and boots that will look great with this. I think you look good in it! you know..... In dim lighting.
Warabie: hehehehehe hehehe....
Neta:.................................
Antho: you might need to shave your legs though
Warabie: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Neta: okay.... okay!!! THAT'S ENOUGH!........ I get it just return it.
Warabie: ok..uh ahhah.haha.. I mean I think you'd look hot in it..
Neta: warabie!
Warabie:.. right! sorry....So you press return.... you scan the receipt and you scan the item and it'll give you an option to put it back on the card or to return it to them in cash. If they don't have a receipt with them, you can press this button right here and tell them to insert their card and you can find their last purchase with the store. When you find it highlight and click return. There's also work when they don't have the tag on it.
Antho: All right, great. Here you go sir. ... Your money went back on your card have a pleasant day
Neta: thank you.... You could have done that without humiliating the custome
Antho: I thought you said I can't hurt your feelings
Neta: you can't, but you might hurt someone else's feelings so let's not do this to an actual customer.
Antho: All right, I won't do that.....to their face
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Neta: All right so that concludes today's training. Tomorrow's training day you guys are going to do that....... .... Well....you're actually going to do that at home...... I just want you guys to watch five short videos. It's just going to talk about safety regulations..... Our tolerance policy...... One safety and one sanitary video and the last one is just going to talk about employee benefits and whatnot.
Vinny: I have a question about benefits?
Neta: shoot
Vinny: so like do you provide the benefits or does the mall itself provide the benefits?
Neta: It's the mall. The mall provides the benefits for everyone who works here, including me.
Vinny: do they cover dental?
Neta: yes ... All the information is in the video
Vinny:... Medical expenses like injuries like a broken arm or stitches
Neta:.......... Yes they provide all that......Yes
Naomi: * whispering whispering*
Vinny: yeah I need that too.......... Gender affirming health care
Nate: actually they do, yeah! You can get more information from the videos..... All right! So I guess we're done for the day. The store opens in 20 minutes so uhhhh you guys are free to head home. Enjoy the rest of your day or you can stay until we open and complete your whole shift up to you.
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Antho: ...*huff*.............hey
Naomi: hm?
Antho: you said you were working on your own book earlier
Naomi: yeah.... it's.... it's still in the development stage tho so. . Yeah
Antho:hmmm what about you puffy you have a hobby or something
Fugue:..... Don't call me that.... If you must know, I enjoy making ceramics
Antho: That's lame. I don't care
Fugue:...... Well then you shouldn't have asked
Antho: I thought you were going to say something interesting
Fugue: well it is interesting if you just let me finish.... I'm actually planning on making my own dish set for my drom room I even made one for my future roommate
Antho: uhhhhh Don't you play video games or some shit like a normal person
Fugue: I do... I'm normal...I ........ I don't have to prove anything to you!
Antho: oh shit! He's actually puffing up! Heheh
Neta: awwww look at them. They're getting along
Candi: uh-hu
Neta: I guess he's making friends in his own way....... Naomi seems to be opening up a little too........ Can't believe I'm going to have a new crew coming next year....... I'm going to miss you guys.
Candi: uh-hu
Neta: I mean that doesn't mean I'm not going to visit. Of course I'm going to check up on my old store and see you guys. I can also share shifts between stores but I don't know how it's going to work out. I have to drive 5 hours but you know it's worth it to see you guys I love-
Candi: Neta can you shut the fuck up for like 3 seconds? God.....why are you in such a good mood!?
Neta: well......when my shift ended I was going to taste test wedding cakes with ikkan.....I guess I'm just excited. I'm sorry....... I know you're tired.... You want to go home early?
Candi: no .......*ugh*.......mmmmmmmmmm....... I'm sorry......*crying*...... I'm just so fucking tired..
Neta: oh babe come here.......
Candi: *crying*.... I wanted chocolate waffles this morning..........
Neta: you did? Awww... What happened?
Candi: *crying* and I told Donn to go to the store and and and he bought back blueberries ones!! *Crying*...... I told him I didn't want those! He said that's all they had!!! He's fucking lying!! I know he is he picked up the wrong ones!! My morning was ruined *crying*
Neta: ohhh I'm sorry that happened
Antho: what's wrong with her?
Neta: hush....she's pregnant
Antho: that explains a lot.
Neta:..................... Go home
Candi: and this is one of those rare fucking mornings where I'm not sick..... It was my only decent morning and he fucking ruined it!!!!!! *Crying*..... this sucks... I don't like being pregnant.....*sniff*.... I mean I do. I love it..... I'm making life........ but you know.....*sniff * I just *crying* I'm so tired of sweat pants.....
Neta: ohhhhh*heh* I'm sorry........ You sure you don't want to leave early? You can go cake sampling with me.
Candi:...*sniff*........hmm ...ok .......
Neta: ok...(Peck).... Why don't we leave extra early and we can get you some maternity clothing?
Candi: you mean those stupid moo moos no..... I got enough of those from my mother-in-law.
Neta: we can get you a nice sundress perfect for spring.........huh? Doesn't that sound nice?
Candi: yeah......*snort* ok ....
Neta: ok....
Antho is the new work child that Neta has adopted. But he has to share custody with @fish-at-fish-fish-resort
#I have a very extensive knowledge of retail work#Naomi is trans femme we stan our shy trans girl failure#Vinny is up to your interpretation idk trans femme trans masc nb Vinny is trans regardless#I don't think their location is in Japan#but the term manga has evolved into a universal term for graphic novel/ comic book/ actual manga#Antho is a big meanie!!!#Candi is going through it her first pregnancy wasn't so bad but this one 😬#Donn did not lie they actually did not have chocolate waffles#Antho and Naomi work friends yay#Toguni will appear in the next one I swear#neta
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voice in my head telling me to quit my job getting louder and louder
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really gonna need people to remember that the 49ers haven't played in sf for like a decade, they should rename themselves to be the santa clara 49ers since the bay area 49ers clearly isn't sticking.
#by all means root against them but they haven't represented the city in a fucking minute so go back to get your jollies from the new york#post's endless posting about crime and retail failure in a city clear across the continent from their alleged home base
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okay okay i'm calm. hung w friends and talked through it and everything will be fine, i know that. i am looking forward to better days
#she bork#i will be so incredible once i'm in the right line of work. nothing is ever good enough in retail and that's why i constantly feel like a#failure. i will find a place with much lower pressure and in a professional sphere where my talents and strengths can shine and my#weaknesses will be nurtured and strengthened instead of exploited and bullied. i will i will i will.#on a sidenote lol i wish i knew why i always become the punching bag at my jobs. at literally every job i've held i become a target for#harrassment and mistreatment and i'm not sure why. i'm tempted to point to myself as the common denominator but it's not my behavior or my#performance??? at least i don't feel like it is lol i will admit i have a tendency to get complacent when i'm doing work that doesn't fuckin#matter to me at all but i don't think it's to the point that it warrants like dislike and targeting lol like i still do my fucking job just#with less earnestness and enthusiasm so it's not like i'm being fucking useless. idk i guess i just have one of those faces yay me :)
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how "No one would work these jobs if they didn't have to" mfs look when wide-eyed kids at the library and target and McDonald's and construction site come at them
#maybe no one wants to work these jobs because they never pay enough#and they're always treated as “stepping-stones” or “menial” and that you have failed your life if you didn't climb up the corporate ladder#which is partly why these jobs don't pay enough#But it's also because the rich and higher-ups get away with underpaying and abusing workers#and not only that but their wealth literally relies on the exploitation of workers who have to sell their labor and pay to live#oh and also#if you work at a retail job or a cafe it's obviously because you didn't study well and you're basically a failure of a human being#nobody would want to work these jobs if they didn't have to actually
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fuck me AND my stupid baka life broski
#didn't get promotion bc im inexperienced PER USUAL 🙄#idk why im upset i knew this was gonna happen#im a failure#i dont even wanna stay in retail forever im literally in school for funeral services#need to draw vitus comfort when im not a crying mess LOL#ignore this sorry#wuvz talks
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How To Maintain Your Weighing Scale
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'It Hasn't Delivered': The Spectacular Failure of Self-checkout Technology
— 15th January 2024 | By Sam Becker, Features Correspondent | BBC

Self-checkout technology has grown, but not every business and consumer is happy with the investment. Credit: Alamy
Unstaffed Tills Were Supposed to Revolutionise Shopping. Now, Both Retailers and Customers are Bagging Many Self-Checkout Kiosks.
It's a common sight at many retail stores: a queue of people, waiting to use a self-checkout kiosk, doing their best to remain patient as a lone store worker attends to multiple malfunctioning machines. The frustration mounts while a dozen darkened, roped-off and cashier-less tills sit in the background.
For shoppers, self-checkout was supposed to provide convenience and speed. Retailers hoped it would usher in a new age of cost savings. Their thinking: why pay six employees when you could pay one to oversee customers at self-service registers, as they do their own labour of scanning and bagging for free?
While self-checkout technology has its theoretical selling points for both consumers and businesses, it mostly isn't living up to expectations. Customers are still queueing. They need store employees to help clear kiosk errors or check their identifications for age-restricted items. Stores still need to have workers on-hand to help them, and to service the machines.
The technology is, in some cases, more trouble than it's worth.
"It hasn't delivered anything that it promises," says Christopher Andrews, associate professor and chair of sociology at Drew University, US, and author of The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy. "Stores saw this as the next frontier… If they could get the consumer to think that [self-checkout] was a preferable way to shop, then they could cut labour costs. But they're finding that people need help doing it, or that they'll steal stuff. They ended up realising that they're not saving money, they're losing money."

Alamy One of the frustrations of self-checkout can be the extra work of having to find a specific PLU code to ring up a purchase. Credit: Alamy
Unexpected Problems in the Bagging Area
Many retail companies have invested millions – if not billions – of dollars in self-checkout technology, which Andrews says was first developed during the 1980s, and started appearing in stores in the 1990s. They're not exactly cheap to get into stores: some experts estimate a four-kiosk system can run six figures.
Despite the cost to install them, many retailers are reversing course on the tech. Target, for instance, is restricting the number of items self-checkout customers can purchase at one time. Walmart has removed some self-checkout kiosks in certain stores to deter theft. In the UK, supermarket chain Booths has also cut down on the number of self-service kiosks in its stores, as customers say they're slow and unreliable.
Dollar General, one of the fastest-growing retailers in the US, is also re-thinking its strategy. In 2022, the discount chain leaned heavily into self-checkout technology – it's not uncommon to see only one or two employees staffing an entire Dollar General store in some areas. Despite the investment, they are now planning to increase the number of employees in stores "and in particular, the checkout area", according to the company's CEO, Todd Vasos.
"We had relied and started to rely too much this year on self-checkout in our stores," he said during the company's Q3 2023 earnings call on 7 December 2023. "We should be using self-checkout as a secondary checkout vehicle, not a primary." (Dollar General did not respond to the BBC's requests for comment).
“Some Data Shows Retailers Utilising Self-checkout Technology Have Loss Rates More Than Twice The Industry Average.”
Some retailers cite theft as a motivator for ditching the unstaffed tills. Customers may be more willing to simply swipe merchandise when using a self-service kiosk than they are when face-to-face with a human cashier. Some data shows retailers utilising self-checkout technology have loss rates more than twice the industry average.
In addition to shrink concerns, experts say another failure of self-checkout technology is that, in many cases, it simply doesn't lead to the cost savings businesses hoped for. Just as Dollar General appears poised to add more employees to its check-out areas, presumably increasing staffing costs, other companies have done the same. Despite self-checkout kiosks becoming ubiquitous throughout the past decade or so, the US still has more than 3.3 million cashiers working around the nation, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Humans or Machines?
Consumers want this technology to work, and welcomed it with open arms. However, years later, they're still queueing for tills; waiting for store-staff assistance with errors or age checks; and searching high and low for the PLU code of the Walla Walla Sweet Onions they're trying to purchase.
In a 2021 survey of 1,000 American shoppers, 60% of consumers said they prefer to use self-checkout over a staffed checkout aisle when given the choice, yet 67% of consumers have had the technology fail while trying to use it.

Alamy Experts say some self-checkout kiosks may stand abandoned as some shoppers transition backed to staffed tills. Credit: Alamy
The bottom line is businesses want to cut costs, and shoppers want to get in and out of a store. If self-checkout isn't the answer, they'll find another avenue.
"It's not that self-checkout technology is good or bad, per se… [but] if we try self-checkout and realise we're not benefitting from it, we might switch back to not using it," says Amit Kumar, an assistant professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Texas, who studies consumer behaviour and decision-making.
That appears to be happening in many cases, as customers' frustrations with the technology persist. But Andrews says that while stores may change up their strategies – as seen with Dollar General and others – many large retail chains are likely to keep kiosks in stores due to sunk costs. "They spent billions putting it in stores, and are hoping they can still get the public to buy into it," he says.
Retailers may continue to rely on the technology, but many aren't putting all their farm-fresh eggs in the self-checkout basket. Instead, they're increasingly giving customers the option to choose between human and machine.
For the customers that do choose to do the labour themselves, there's one thing Andrews believes won't change. However ubiquitous the technology is, and however much consumers get used to using the kiosks, shoppers are likely to find themselves disappointed and frustrated most of the time.
"It was part of a larger experiment in retail in trying to socialise people into using it," he says. Simply, "customers hate it".
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For the last five years retail crime in America has been rising. Now we're seeing crime such as flash mobs and smash-and-grab offences happening in growing numbers. This usually involves well organized gangs of teenagers that coordinate their sometimes violent retail thefts smashing store windows and displays in order to steal merchandise. While there are a number of reasons for this crime, it has raised the public's awareness on crime, policing, and how the judicial system has failed so many people. My new report entitled "U.S. Retail Crime, Flash Mobs, And Smash-And-Grab Offences Increasing."
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Uuggh my mother is driving me fucking insane again.
So I've had a part time job for almost two years now at a co op, but I don't work enough hours to get a decent pay which sucks but nothing I can really do about that.
Anyways my mother is constantly on my fucking back and sayin how I need a real proper job because I don't pay digs as much as I should (45 a week like which is ridiculously hard to do when I earn less than that a week)
Well, newsflash Karen. It is fucking hard as shit trying to get a new job! And trust me I've been trying because I hate this job so much. But I almost flunked outta highschool so I have pretty much no qualifications due to that, which makes finding a better job hard as fuck you know.
But like, why the fuck hasn't it kicked in for her yet that I already have a fuckin job!?
Like sure, it fucking sucks but I'm trying and she should be more appreciative about that.
And she's constantly bringing up how my older sibling got a job immediately after highshool but she has a car and she actually graduated with honours so excuse me if I'm not perfect and smart like her.
I need to move out but that isn't happening anytime soon in this life because of shit like this.
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Actually, the banjo one got nothing on this
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