Do you support limiting self-checkout stands at grocery stores?

Asked by KTVZ

1,077 Votes

Do you support limiting self-checkout stands at grocery stores?

49%

Yes, for jobs! Yes, for jobs!

51%

No, we need more! No, we need more!

49%

Yes, for jobs!

Self-checkout doesn't necessarily save you any time. Think of the people that'll lose their jobs over an expansion of self-checkout! I'd say they should only be an express lane.

Self-checkout doesn't necessarily save you any time. Think of the people that'll lose their jobs over an expansion of self-checkout! I'd say they should only be an express lane. Show Less

15 Comments

Kimberly Yoder

1- they take jobs away from real people. 2- they are irritating as hell!

Kevin Crabtree

I will wait in line 99% of the time I would rather shop at a Logan's Ray's or any other Local merchant than a big Box even if I pay a little more

Daniel Wohlford

Kev, what does that have to do with self-checkout stands? try to stay focused.

Valerie Rhodes Kifer

They are a pain to use and I still appreciate/expect customer service. If I want to self checkout I'll shop online!

Janine Dobkins Hansen

Because for every self checkout stand there could be a person employed helping to lower the employment rate

Mou Chat Reed

I HATE THEM.

Richard Dillard

I do not like self check out to inconvenient for a basket full of groceries.

Martha Peterson

If I'm doing my own checkout and bagging, I should get 50% discount since I'm doing their job without pay. Need to keep cashiers in place and stop trying to make more profits from the customer.

Wendy Olstad

The reduction of self check machines should be replaced with person operated check stands. Otherwise the corporations will just opt to leave customers in long lines if measure to reduce automation pas

Kristin McKinley

Absolutely!! Where do I sign? Not only for jobs but if an issue occurs, it takes longer to fix at a self-checkout than going thru a human-manned checkout. I've had a lot of issues at a self-checkout.

Nora Currier

Some people are not ready to scan, bag and then do all the electronic stuff required to check themselves out. Especially seniors. Could give many more reasons why they are not the best idea.

Julie O'Neal

I deserve a discount if I use self check out. I have saved the wage of two people, the checker and the bagger. I have limited my shopping at the Redmond Fred Meyer - often forced to use self checkout.

Lisa York

Yes, for jobs but keep what the stores have now...I prefer self-checkout, in and out quickly

Teresa Rodriguez

I am not getting a discount or wage to check out my own groceries. I am not an employee. I let the employees do their jobs by checking out my purchase.

Pam W

What will people do without these type of jobs? I would rather have someone check me out with a friendly face than a stupid manchine.

GT Thomas

You do not have to use the machine but quit trying to stop others who like them. You must be a liberal.

51%

No, we need more!

I wish all the lines would be self-checkout, honestly...

I wish all the lines would be self-checkout, honestly... Show Less

12 Comments

Larry Ewart

It is totally frustrating to be in line and someone who hates technology is trying to cash a $5 coupon. And write a check! :(

GT Thomas

Unions only want more dues so they can own more Democrat politicians.

Gary Arnold Seevers

Automation is happening. I worked as a cashier once. It was miserable. I love that I can do my own work and not wait as long.

RO2312

It's faster and more convenient. It opens more checkout lanes when traditional cashiers wouldn't be available due to low staffing.

Joseph Hemrick III

How about we regulate based on American Values... freedom being the important one. Stop regulating everything TO DEATH.

Roy Tiller

It's so much faster than the two regular check stands that are open when the store is slammed.

JohnWayne Kenneth Pool

At my store, we added self checkouts because we were understaffed. We're still understaffed...... Without our self-checks, we'd only ever have 2-6 registers open.

Jim Van Osdell

I don't agree that we need more however, 2 is too few.

k san

Absolutely not! when lines at checkout get unbearably long, self-checkout relieves that wait. None of the stores I frequent EVER have even HALF the checkout lines manned, so it's not about about jobs!

Robert Northrup

Machines don't go on strike.

liz birdwell

With the growth in Bend there are plenty of jobs and also that brings very crowded grocery stores. We need the self-checkout to balance the outrageous growth in this town.

Jodi Dwyer

Look at the multitude of cashierless check out stands at most stores ( ie. Walmart, BiMart, Target. They aren't staffing enough cashiers as it is. Let us check ourselves out. Faster/ more efficient

Asked by Greatist

6,961 Votes

Do you use coconut oil?

69%

Yes. I love it! Yes. I love it!

31%

No. But I want to! No. But I want to!

69%

Yes. I love it!

24 Comments

Paul Burgess

because I like coconut oil and try to use evey day for different reasons.

Greatist

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already using coconut oil for many of the info on here. Cheap and it actually works :)

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Coconut oil is high in nutrients and it is good for the hair.

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I started using it in my cooking because of the high smoke point, and now i use it for a lot of things on this list. Now i have even more uses for it!

Ed Drahos

Love coconut shortening for deep frying. Because of the high smoke tolerance. Please note this is the shortening. I use extra virgin olive oil for most other things.

Linda Griffiths

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good for everything Father has been using coconut oil for years He is 91 We love it

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Donna Fulton

I am a user

Swapnil Tayade

i use it as hair oil only... :)

31%

No. But I want to!

6 Comments

Andrea Tongue

I haven't found it in Belgium yet....still looking :)

Babatunde Adediji

Because of the benefits

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Never tried coconut oil, so I plan to do a bit of factual research. If even some of these are true then heck I'll buy the oil in bulk. :)

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Do you recycle?

78%

Always Always

22%

Never Never

78%

Always

It helps the environment.

It helps the environment. Show Less

22 Comments

Susan Mclaughlin

I try whenever I can.

Barry Rashford

If we want a plastic ocean then we should continue to do what we are doing.

k san

Because it is the right thing to do.

Stuart Alpert

hello

Larry Ewart

As much as possible

Sarah Croom

I do but I go rounds w/ my guy. Ever since China stopped taking our recycling he stopped doing it. Idk if all that is real, I have noticed that our garbage guy just loads both cans into the same dump bin & it’s not sorted. So that’s really disturbing. Every little bit helps I feel. I rec. everything

Carolyn Morris

Always, I Re Use Water Bottles.

Misty Schrotberger

My mom has a cow if we don't

kaycstamper

I do what I can but live in an area where they don't have it. Still I save bottles and cardboard to take to recycling. I cook from scratch so don't really have cans.

Michael Stafford

It is the least we can do to preserve our resources.

Julie Brantley

We pay by the pound for certain items so why not pay less and recycle - it's the right thing to do for me and the environment.

JoãoVitorJ J

Yes, I recycle

Milena Santana

because it helps the environment

Cornelia H. Dunnings

I like to help the environment. I even pick up cans & bottles near my car in parking lots.

Joyce Koch

I feel I'm helping out.

Linda Jeffcoat Amick

Why not?

gena

Although I can only hope that it's useful because there is no proof that what is supposedly sent to the recyclers they actually carry through. You always hear about it not being done.

Evey G Quines

It's the least I can do

Bonita Davis

We take our own garbage to the dump and pay by the pound. Recycling is free so the more we recycle the less we have to pay.

Jill Hoadley Chalk

It's important to reuse as many things as possible.

Ann Wilbanks

Our duty to recycle. If it goes to the landfill, it piles up. Be responsible!!

Rachel Clara Smith

Of course! Everyone should recycle!

BJ Arey

We recycle everything possible. We also take cloth bags shopping, use insulated bag with blue ice for cold items & take reusable containers to restaurants for leftovers to take home.