said by carpetshark3:So Stop and Pee is still in business?
I've found that Safeway (Spaceway) has the slowest freaking checkers. They have to stop and chat. I've told them to keep checking and I'll freaking bag - there's a line behind me. Here they still use the belt that the shopper loads. The clerk unloads at KS.
That is faster since clerk can pull anything that needs to be weighed and do it all at once or leave all of it in the cart until last.
King Soopers (King Stupid's) is very much faster at checkout. Albertson's stores were always dirty.
I've found Target not too bad, but I won't do Wally World. We used to have a Cub/Grocery Warehouse, but those stores usually benefit those who buy in bulk.
I'll use self-check but that damn bagging requirement just pisses me off. I'm buying one small item - I don't NEED a bag.
I think management forces the cashiers to stop and try to chit chat as they do that at my store also.
The are also very slow.
The best worker at my safeway is a guy that some people would call "mentally challenged", but he is the quickest, most knowledge worker in the store and does not mess around.
He can fix any register glitch and scan and bag 2 to 3 carts in the time it takes everyone else to do 1. He makes everyone else seem retarded, lol.
If I had a store I would want this guy as my cashier.
Anyways the self checkouts at safeway work without those glitch problems, so sometimes when lines are long and self checkouts are empty I will go there and bag a pile of 10+ bags on the scale and be out before one cashier is even done with one customer.
Safeway seems to tolerate slow cashiers and make them waste time by pausing and chit chatting even when the line is 5 carts long or more.
The slow cashier problem is everywhere, not just specific stores. I think most people are underqualified to be cashiers, but since the pay is lower companies hire who they can get.