StL Dan wrote:\2. Utilize the increasingly abundant "self checkout" stations
A brand new Wal Mart Market opened less than a mile from my house (thank goodness). There are a half dozen self checkout stations. It's the greatest thing ever.
Self checkout stations at Wal-Mart are brilliant. They never seem to open "express" lanes at my local store and every lane is packed with people pushing full shopping carts. So now they don't lose the customers who want to pick up a few items but don't want to wait 30-45 minutes in line to do so. And they can pay for fewer workers.
I haven't seen self checkouts at a full size Walmart in a long time. They all had them for awhile but the customers were too dumb to use them, the machines were always [expletive] up, plus I would imagine stealing went up quite a bit. I didn't think they still existed. I've seen them in those neighborhood market ones, but those are in nicer areas and don't have everything I would typically buy.
