Ryujin
Legend
The phantom scanning thing has become far more common, since cameras started going in to catch people who skip-scan.
Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?
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It's not my fault. It's the fault of the game designers that make all the games that suck, and all the terrible people who are playing at the tables I join.
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MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
In here they seem to be still going strong. Truth is, they are fast and you avoid the awkward moment with the bagger when all they do is move your purchase a few centimeters because they no longer have bags to do any bagging with.
Thomas Shey
Legend
Yeah, that's annoying. I don't need to go through a checker when I'm buying five things.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
We have a local/regional chain (Market Basket) which doesn't do self-checkout at all. Their 12 item or less express lanes are pretty good. They're known for focusing more on employee wages, development, and careers than other supermarkets.
I had the Family Ties theme song leap to mind unbidden, and YouTube confirms it's more than a minute long. I remember that being interminable when I was a kid. Cheers was also just over a minute. I see All in the Family was a little under.
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I can see going back to checkers being a loss-prevention thing, but most of the places around here that have self-checks, don't have them set up well for people to take carts through, so there's probably also some efficiency being lost, there.
But yes, standing in line behind someone buying 107 things, when you have a pint of ice cream slowly melting in your hand, is ... annoying.
There's a local organic chain we go to that's similar.
At one point, sometime around 2001, I clocked a bunch of the opening credits sequences for hour-long shows, and they were all like exactly 30 seconds. I remember seeing something much shorter shortly thereafter, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a thing that evolved over the decades.
Related: Making an effective piece of music 30 seconds long is difficult.
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