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Posted on 06-25-08 05:17:34 PM Link | Quote
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The bill’s critics, which include the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group and the ConsumerWorld.org Web site, say consumers will suffer because they may be forced to wander as far away as 5,000 feet in a particular store to scan an item and check its price. If a retailer opts for the scanning system alternative, prices would still need to be displayed on store shelves for most items.

The critics say it will be harder to catch overcharges at the cash register, and the scanning machines may not pick up on sale prices or special prices for customers with loyalty cards.


Thank you, corporate America, for making me laugh. Yes, let's remove price tags. Wonderful idea.

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Posted on 06-25-08 05:18:35 PM Link | Quote
They want MONEY!

Seems like they're doing this to get people to spend more on groceries.

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Posted on 06-25-08 05:20:23 PM Link | Quote
Yeah. Consumerist's text:

John Hurst, the president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, "said consumers will benefit in the form of lower prices and shortened lines once stores no longer need to devote resources to item-by-item pricing." But kjd aa- [thump]
—sorry, we just fell out of our chairs laughing at the idea of a supermarket out there that will heroically pass the savings downstream to consumers instead of profiting directly from it.


How would there even be savings...? You'd save from not having a sticker printed onto every item, but you'd have to install electronic scanners everywhere anyway.

Or just forget about the rest, fire half your staff, and make the checkout lines outsourced to India. Yeah!

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Posted on 06-25-08 05:22:27 PM Link | Quote
Self-checkout is already removing cashier jobs...

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Posted on 06-25-08 08:14:26 PM Link | Quote

I don't even see price tags half the time I go into a store in this state anyway... I had actually assumed they had already repealed the item pricing law...

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Posted on 06-26-08 03:25:36 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by cpubasic13
Self-checkout is already removing cashier jobs...


Self-checkouts are stupid annoying and they really suck :[

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Posted on 06-26-08 06:00:39 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xkeeper
How would there even be savings...? You'd save from not having a sticker printed onto every item, but you'd have to install electronic scanners everywhere anyway.
Because you only have to get the electronic scanners once. You have to print new pricetags... umm... ridiculously often. When sales start, when sales end, when the price of gas goes up a bit too much, when the old tags get damaged somehow...

Self-checkout is good. Quick, easy, and the errors seem to be becoming less and less common.
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Posted on 06-27-08 01:25:41 AM (last edited by Neko54123 at 06-26-08 10:27 PM) Link | Quote
Self-checkout is theoretically great when you have a small handful of items, and don't wish to wait behind Grandma McMoldyfart and Her Amazing 1-Ton Shopping Cart as she digs for coupons at the bottom of her medication bag. Unfortunately, there are a lot of amazingly stupid and inconsiderate idiots out there that use it regardless of how many items they have, and since self-checkout systems have a fairly small bagging area, these people with two carts' worth of crap end up having to wait for cashier approval every time they remove a bag to make room. You'd think by the 15th time they hear "ITEM REMOVED FROM BAGGING AREA PLEASE WAIT FOR ASSITANCE" they would realize that a normal checkout lane with a trained cashier AND bagger just might be faster!

So...yeah. I don't really see the benefits of such systems when they're almost always hogged by slow-moving people, unless you consider the loss of cashier jobs and subsequent monetary savings by the company as "benefits."

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Posted on 06-27-08 01:16:19 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Neko54123
...Grandma McMoldyfart...


I rofl'd.


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Posted on 07-05-08 08:08:10 PM (last edited by Stigandr at 07-05-08 05:08 PM) Link | Quote
The bill’s critics, which include the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group and the ConsumerWorld.org Web site, say consumers will suffer because they may be forced to wander as far away as 5,000 feet in a particular store to scan an item and check its price.

Hold on a second. That's damn near a mile. I don't think I've seen any stores that large...

As for the tags on every item thing, at the grocery store I worked at the tags weren't on every item, they were only on the shelves. And judging from the comments on Consumerist, that's not very uncommon.

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