Interesting Walmart experience today.....

[Stampede]

LOL
the last thing WallyWorld worries about is backed-up checkout lanes. You ever shopped at one?
Dumb cattle with glazed eyes standing with carts full of cheap Chinese crap.
Ol’ Sam is probably spinning like a top in his grave.

Yes but I try to avoid it. It works better to order online and do their curbside. Much faster that way.

Try that next time.

 

[palmettomoon]

Every item, even canned boiled peanuts, have a weight associated with the barcode.

The self-checkout machine uses the information stored about the product’s weight to measure against a scale underneath the bagging area. If a customer scans an item and does not place it in the bag, the system will gently remind him or her to do so. If an item is placed in the bag whose weight does not match that of the item scanned, the customer will be informed that there is an unauthorized item in the bagging area. The visual message, along with the auditory cues alerts the customer, as well as any human employees.

I've been in the business 30+ years. Save it. Not disagreeing with you, but you aren't giving me any new info.

I worked for twenty years for Information Resources, Inc. and started in RCS. Scan data (how systems work, how data is formatted and transmitted, analyzed, used in modelling, etc.) is how I made my living for many years.

 

[Just1more]

One stopped me the other day, soon as I dug out my receipt, he just waved me out, didn’t bother to look at it.

It’s usually the ever so popular highly pilferable $5 case of water at under the buggy that sends them over the edge like Barney Fife

 

[Dice]

3 of 9 Barcode TTFont + a small scale is your friend. Anything you buy that's expensive, find a similar weight item in the store that weighs about the same and then write that UPC/EAN barcode down. Print a label(s) for the next trip and stick them on the packages of the high priced items then scan yourself out. Easy-peasy-Japanesey.

You can also wreak havoc in the store by reversing the act. Pick some items that appeal to a certain segment of society, then print barcode labels for very expensive items and place them over the cheap items' barcodes. Sit back near the registers and watch the drama unfold.

I don't have enough sense to understand how to print barcodes but I think If enough people did this walmart and other places might find the self checkout deal a no deal for themselves. I kike the idea. Maybe you could print some barcodes and sell them online.

 

[Gaffer1968]

He (receipt drone) couldn't be bothered. He just said, "Have a good day sir."

Funny....there are no receipt checkers at my store. Also the scales on self-checkout aren't hooked up so you can load a bag and put it back in your cart and it keeps right on going.

I guess managers adjust their store policies according to how much theft and loss they experience at that particular location.

 

[CAMSDADDY]

The delay is a result of the weigh process, not the scan process.
Bar code scanners can process in 40 to 50 milliseconds; however, the scale needs a delay of a few seconds to determine the item is no longer moving in order to record an accurate reading.

Finally we get some training.

 

[Baldilox]

Clutch yer pearls there Yank.....I use INSTANT GRITS TOO!

 

[palmettomoon]

It’s usually the ever so popular highly pilferable $5 case of water at under the buggy that sends them over the edge like Barney Fife

 

[Baldilox]

Your WM sure is different from mine here in Jasper a mile away. I'm there every couple of days shopping for groceries (meat on markdown, etc.). All of the ladies who work there are outstanding and helpful. The only real complaint I have is the store spent beaucoup dollars on rearranging/replacing stock shelves but didn't spend a dime on their broke-ass short carts. Nearly every one of them have wheels that don't turn and it's like pushing a government employee. Why do I want the small cart? I don't want to use the big ones because of the integrated child seats where one would be tempted to put food items and the thought of a messy-diapered kid having sat there is a real turnoff.

Dang - I never thought about the messy diapered kid straining his personal potatoes right where I place my delicate groceries. Gawwd!

 

[palmettomoon]

I don't have enough sense to understand how to print barcodes but I think If enough people did this walmart and other places might find the self checkout deal a no deal for themselves. I kike the idea. Maybe you could print some barcodes and sell them online.

It's easy as hell. Download 3of9 Barcode font and install it. You can then select it as your font in a labeling app or Word doc or even an Excel spreadsheet (we used to do this for planogram creation many moons ago).

You simply need to find an item in the store that has similar weights, print the code on a label for the cheaper item, stick over the label on the expensive item of similar weight and scan away. Pro tip: Sort of lean over the scanner as you scan the item and quickly bag it so the overhead camera at that register won't see the image, just in case a human drone is watching you on video.