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Have you encountered CVS's automated checkout machines? If so you're welcome to vote in our poll: Do you like them or hate them? We'll be publishing a feature article about these automated checkout machines later this morning.
I see automated checkout machines as being anti-customer. Here was something the business used to do for us and that we now have to do ourselves. I like these things even less since they take away jobs from demographics that don't have many other options.
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed that there's even a question!
ReplyDeleteThe first time I laid eyes on these machines was late at night (at the 24-hour Tenley store) when I just needed to run in and get some medicine for my son. When I entered the store, there were five people in line, while the one checkout person behind the counter was in protracted discussions with an elderly couple about their coupons. By the time I got what I needed, the line had grown to seven and the discussions showed no signs of wrapping up. It was then that I saw the new self-checkout machines: I bolted out of line, scanned and paid for my purchase, and left - with the coupon negotiations at the counter still in full force.
I don't know what it is about CVS that has always made the process of paying for something so excruciatingly slow, but I've often avoided shopping there because I didn't have the time or emotional stamina to deal with it. These machines will make a small but significant improvement in my day-to-day quality of life.