• Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    As an autistic person, I certainly prefer self-checkout. I would much rather have to deal with an annoying error than have to interact with a cashier, or worse, having that cashier ask about my day or something. Besides, most of the error messages have to do with self-checkout being implemented badly, and are not inherently an issue with self-checkout.

    Ideally, self-checkout would work well, and in the ideally rare case where it doesn’t work, a person would be called automatically to deal with the issue and provided with a descriptive error which they know how to deal with. In this case, I believe the cashier job could be replaced with self-checkout.

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      2 years ago

      Plenty of people who have time and don’t want to pay a cashier. Seems like a terrible job to me.

      Grocery stores here are just so terrible and alienating… Especially the high end ones that my dad goes to. I hate them and knowing I will never be able to afford anything there if I wanted to.

      WinCo is sort of OK. Costco is too elitist. SamsClub has bad selection and I don’t bother to check their prices. Safeway is overpriced and they didn’t even let me get a job there. Farmers markets tend to be insanely overpriced. Anything pretending to be some type of fancy environment is just highly depressing. Trader Joe’s can be OK but I would go whenever it isn’t super crowded. Yeah I can’t think of any more food stuff.

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        It is at this moment where I am truly grateful to be Chinese. The idea of a parent living a nice life while children have to made do and give up certain things is utterly unimaginable. If your father was chinese he would certainly give you financial assistance. Obviously he shouldn’t give you everything but my mother would do what is within her power to help me.

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          Oh we are actually doing fairly OK more so than most USAians. He is just overworked. I am arguably underworked. But they are OK he helped me get my first job and I help my folks out with the property and business stuff. (I live with them.) We are actually going to go backpacking on Friday.

          On aggregate I prob wouldn’t want to be amerikan tho.