So … I know that I was not a big fan of the self-checkout movement. \u00a0Part of it was my perspective as a courtesy clerk and knowing that if we didn’t need more checkers, my route to promotion was limited. \u00a0Also, I don’t really trust people and the part where an employee stands around babysitting customers and machines means that the labor savings may not be as great as one might think.<\/p>\n
But also. In the state of California. \u00a0You cannot purchase alcohol through self-checkout machines. \u00a0I understand this when you think of minors who are buying alcohol. \u00a0But I was trying to purchase NyQuil. \u00a0And yes, it says on the bottle 10% alcohol. \u00a0But I was thinking \/ hoping that the computer would not think of it as “alcoholic beverage” but “medicine \/ pharmaceutical” … but alas. \u00a0So if you ever find yourself trying to buy a bottle of NyQuil and get into the self-checkout line? \u00a0(in California) get out and go to a regular checkout line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So … I know that I was not a big fan of the self-checkout movement. \u00a0Part of it was my perspective as a courtesy clerk and knowing that if we didn’t need more checkers, my route to promotion was limited. \u00a0Also, I don’t really trust people and the part where an employee stands around babysitting … Continue reading “NyQuil and automated check out”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}