Friday, September 16, 2011
Small victory for human labor!
News item, heard on NPR:
Remains to be seen whether this return to common sense will spread. Luckily the self-service checkout hasn't gained much acceptance in the first place. ¶ 5:30 AM
Big Y is saying "so long" to its self-service checkout lanes at its stores, according to published reports.
The New England-based retailer is slated to phase out self-serve lanes at all 61 locations.
"After extensive research, Big Y has concluded that these self checkout lanes not only do not save their customers time but usually take them even more time to check out than customers in standard checkout lanes," the company said in a statement. “Self-checkout lines get clogged as the customers needed to wait for store staff to assist with problems with bar codes, coupons, payment problems and other issues that invariably arise with many transactions."
Remains to be seen whether this return to common sense will spread. Luckily the self-service checkout hasn't gained much acceptance in the first place. ¶ 5:30 AM
