Self service started in the USA about a decade earlier due to minimum wage hikes: entrepreneurial attempts to cut off until then required pumping jobs succeeded, much to everyone’s surprise.
Then devious concept followed in Europe about a decade later, about the time the time this picture was taken. Still most were full service there
In theory, I would like full service if it was just like 10-20¢ more and the person performing the work truly cared about the job they were doing.
Imagine someone topping off your wiper fluid, washing your windows and doing a high level walk-around your car to ensure nothing looks out of place. Perhaps even some small talk about a good route for a Sunday drive or interesting events in the area, like a parade or public concert downtown next week.
But the reality is, like the beautiful sink your teeth into burger on the commercial versus the squished train wreck I actually get, those kinds of service people would be few and far in between. And, while I don’t necessarily blame folks for going all minimum viable product, I still think it sucks that we do. So self service it is.
You would imagine that someone would have already re-tried this idea and called it “bespoke gas service” or some nonsense. Put it as a subscription service and prolific nature of Love’s or Buc-ee’s and you would get people signing up like crazy.
I’m slow at it and I find just loading groceries onto a belt a more efficient process. Plus when the machines mess up or I bag an item too quickly I get held up.
For me it is entering correct vegetable and fruit codes. I found it fun and a novelty when self checkout was first introduced, now I will go out of my way, slightly, to not enter or scan
You have to remember the codes?! I can either, depending on the type of selfcheckout, weigh at a weighing station and pick from images with text and get a sticker barcode printed to put on it, or select from images with text at the bagging station.
I guess short people were just screwed? I guess it was probably full service.
I remember seeing one or two stations like this when I was a kid. The hoses lowered down after you paid, so you don’t need to be tall to use it.
Self service started in the USA about a decade earlier due to minimum wage hikes: entrepreneurial attempts to cut off until then required pumping jobs succeeded, much to everyone’s surprise.
Then devious concept followed in Europe about a decade later, about the time the time this picture was taken. Still most were full service there
deleted by creator
In theory, I would like full service if it was just like 10-20¢ more and the person performing the work truly cared about the job they were doing.
Imagine someone topping off your wiper fluid, washing your windows and doing a high level walk-around your car to ensure nothing looks out of place. Perhaps even some small talk about a good route for a Sunday drive or interesting events in the area, like a parade or public concert downtown next week.
But the reality is, like the beautiful sink your teeth into burger on the commercial versus the squished train wreck I actually get, those kinds of service people would be few and far in between. And, while I don’t necessarily blame folks for going all minimum viable product, I still think it sucks that we do. So self service it is.
You would imagine that someone would have already re-tried this idea and called it “bespoke gas service” or some nonsense. Put it as a subscription service and prolific nature of Love’s or Buc-ee’s and you would get people signing up like crazy.
I don’t mind filling the tank but I hate self checkout.
I make good sandwiches though.
deleted by creator
I’m slow at it and I find just loading groceries onto a belt a more efficient process. Plus when the machines mess up or I bag an item too quickly I get held up.
I just don’t enjoy it.
For me it is entering correct vegetable and fruit codes. I found it fun and a novelty when self checkout was first introduced, now I will go out of my way, slightly, to not enter or scan
You have to remember the codes?! I can either, depending on the type of selfcheckout, weigh at a weighing station and pick from images with text and get a sticker barcode printed to put on it, or select from images with text at the bagging station.
Where I am at, it’s much easier to just stuff things into bags without a care, and have God figure it out at the checkout
They have to approve my bloody bag every single time!
“Unexpected item in bagging area.” No, that’s the shit I just scanned…
It’s not self-service if you have to wait for a manager’s approval every time!
For some reason, Greece remains primarily without self-service. I wonder why it never caught on.