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Cake day: October 26th, 2025

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  • I don’t disagree but I’m just presenting why every other retailer has them. As another commenter said though, I too am not a “small talk” type of person and hate that these stores train staff to try and engage in small talk with customers. I wasn’t checkout but was trained so I could help with overflow. I always only ever greeted people, with maybe one other follow up remark and then just got them out of there. Since I knew as a customer, I just wanted my shit scanned and to go home. For me it was more customers who seemed to want to have a yarn.


  • It’s purely to save on wages and related expenses. At my local the self checkouts have one person watching to help when the self checkouts call them (weight/item mismatch, receipt paper low, etc). The amount of people these self checkouts process would require 2-3 tills minimum for standard foot traffic + approx at least 2 for peak times. This requires those 2-3 being paid for a full shift plus two other, checkout trained staff nearby to be available to open lanes for overflow. All handled by a total of 2-3 checkout staff instead of 4-6.

    So less wages, less money lost on training checkout capable staff, less management having to maintain a roster of sufficient staff, with sufficient hours to keep them around. Checkout staff generally wouldn’t do many other tasks back in the day beyond click and collect either and had a lot of idle time, because obviously you can’t be far from a till.









  • Also, sealioning is “just asking questions” (JAQ’ing off). Consistently interrogating a position or POV for example, with requests for evidence. Not asking someone to provide some sort of evidence for a single claim they made in reply to another user and refusal to find said evidence for them.

    Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning ) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter

    Emphasis mine. From wiki. I appreciate the attempt to deescalate though and accept it’s probably time to pack it in with that particular user.