So far, this is the only way that self checkout has made anything cheaper in the store.
I thought the point of a self-checkout was so I didn’t have to talk to a cashier? It’s amazing they provide this service for free!
My solution to this is to just buy normal produce because organic produce is stupid.
Organic not about being healthier, it is about being more sustainable.
Addressed in the article. Organic is actually less sustainable because it’s less efficient.
The article discusses that organic foods are worse for the environment.
Probably depends on which brand. One brand is actually trying to be more sustainable and the other is greenwashing. Unfortunately the latter is more common…
Enjoy your food with lots of pesticides then. https://www.foodwatch.org/en/most-supermarkets-lack-a-coherent-strategy-to-reduce-pesticides
They go well with my credit card microplastics
Organic does not mean pesticide free. It just means they use so called ‘organic pesticides’ which are just as bad or worse, but they’re ‘naturally derived’ which sounds better to some people. It’s marketing BS. Any agricultural practice at scale uses pesticides and all produce should be washed before consumption.
The “organic” Rotenone is a good example.
It’s souch better for you except for the strong link to causing Parkinson’s disease at low concentrations.
They also rely on extensive application of Pyrethrin and Spinosads. Both are broad spectrum insect killers who wipe out beneficial insects.
Read my link. Organic food is full of pesticides as well.
But they’re organic pesticides. /s
I’ve no idea if that’s even a thing. Just felt the joke was there.
Dimethyl Cadmium is organic. :)
I’m pretty sure powdered copper is still the go-to for grape vineyards.
That’s a good deal safer than Dimethyl Cadmium. And it’s not organic :)
They are, and the most common ones are vastly more dangerous to humans, and animals, than the most common non-organic ones.
Not a reliable source: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Genetic_Literacy_Project
There’s some research that shows organic may be better in certain ways, but nothing too conclusive. I know some organic produce tastes better than the other options. Farmers markets and homegrown often tastes even better.
We need a different new label: Sustainable. In my opinion more important than Organic.
Fuck them bourgeoisie lol
I always wonder where they keep the inorganic produce?
Wax fruit is available in the home goods section
Wax is made of hydrocarbons, which is as organic as it gets.
Maybe some golden apples then?
That’s made with a real apple, just coated in 17 metric tons of gold.
I did this once when I rang up celeriac (aka celery root) as plain old celery, but that was because the grocery store didn’t have celeriac in the self checkout system for some reason. Pro tip: grated celeriac makes awesome fritters and they’re incredibly cheap to make if you get to pretend it’s regular celery.
I consider myself a very honest and morally kind person but you are fucking right I do this
Dunno how you can think those things about yourself with all that maniacal laughter you’re doing.
I’ve twiddled my moustache so much I got a static shock
Sounds like Zeus is giving you a good job tickle
That’s literally theft lol.
They didn’t train me to be a cashier, so how am I understand the nuances of the grocery industry when they’re asking me to do their job?
Yeah I don’t grasp the whole system, and no one’s ever shown me how to properly scan the two gallons of milk I keep beneath my regular items in the bottom row of the cart…guess they’re free then
Food theft, I saw nothing.
You monster
Eh, corporations have been stealing from us since before we were born. Bribing politicians to write labor laws and tax codes in their favor, violating our rights for profit because they know the people they’re fucking over are too poor to sue, straight up stealing from us (at least in the US, where the largest type of theft is wage theft)
This isn’t stealing, it’s just reclaiming a tiny portion of what’s been stolen from you.
The company is using you to ring this stuff up so they don’t have to pay an employee to do it, so I’d just consider the difference in price to be my wages for the work they’re having me do.
I still shoplift most of my groceries, but I do it at the staffed checkouts to justify them keeping their jobs because I am a man of the people.
That’s my justification, yes. Plus I’m pure unadulterated evil
I call it TED. Temporary Employee Discount. Don’t forget to ring your TED. Always.
I dunno man, being in Canada and having all the grocery stores jack up their stuff makes me feel very not bothered about anything anybody does to them they may be considered “not moral”. I mean, as long as we leave the grocery store workers alone.
Kneel. Kneel before Professor Chaos!
Always rign up avacados as potatos.
My friend did this for a year while working as a chef when given money to get get the morning produce for the kitchen, he would pocket the change.
As far as I am concerned self checkouts will be deprecated just like self driving cars. And organic bananas FTW!
Cashiers aren’t much better. They’ve given me free water and free cat food on several occasions. I like to think that they want to stick it to the company as much as everyone else.
The worst part about self-checkouts is the people who spend 20 minutes trying to figure them out.
I’m in and out in a few minutes, even with a cart full of stuff.
You would think people understand them by this point, I mean they’ve been around for at least a couple decades or so by now. It’s just like how I don’t understand how people below the age of 70 don’t understand computers…I mean Win 95 was out 30 years ago!! I used it as a child, and if a 30-40 year old can’t outperform a child, that is straight up embarrassing.
Kids are extremely good at learning new things, and on average, old people are not. Whatever explanation to this state of things you prefer, and there’s obviously exceptions, this is just how it is.
Tbf, there are definitely some items that just REALLY do not work well with self check. Really light items that it can’t properly sense the weight on or anything age restricted are the first 2 that spring to mind but I’m sure there are others.
No matter how good at self check you are, if your order contains a greeting card and a box of cold medicine odds are the damn thing is gonna completely shit the bed.
Where do you have self checkouts with weighing?
Sounds like uk, they have anti theft measures but usually just bugs out
Wait you guy’s don’t? European here, and I remember them always weighting things.
Not in Finland.
The biggest supermarket chain here did recently add these exit gates that only open by scanning your receipt, which was mildly annoying.
In my experience, people often don’t know that they’re weighted. They’ll set purses and other personal items on the scales then wonder why the machine won’t let them continue.
Which, if you have any ounce of self-awareness, would mean you wouldn’t go to self-checkout with them.
Though the weight issue is more a setup issue. You can register something as having negligee weight, whether or not they do is the fault of the store or the checkout manufacturer.
Excuse me laughing after reading this 😂
How about a NSFW tag on anything THIS horrific?
You trying to get me fired or arrested?!
Just taking his employee discount.
Next level: stick the price tag of organic bananas on a tray of meat.
This is next level. I wonder if this is really possible. Like, do they have control on these things? I am thinking of a mass resistance where people make barcodes and go to these places to stick their own fair prices and pay. But may be we are not there yet.
It works for some, I’d caution even trying it though. If the bag scales are enabled, the weight discrepancy will flag it. Depending on how sensitive it is and jaded the workers are they may just press the bypass without a care.
Alternatively, imaging scanners (non laser based) tend to have the option of “produce assurance” where the image of what was scanned/keyed is compared against the average entry. Too big of a discrepancy will flag and force manual verification.
No, it works. Just, be aware that this is literal stealing and can have all the consequences thereof.
Yeah, I’ve been on a kick lately of watching body/dash cam footage and several of them have been cops coming to arrest people that were recorded fucking around with self checkout.
Fuck self checkout. Arrest the fuckers who gave ten people’s jobs to the customers.
I call this the unpaid labor tax credit.
