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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 9479	My first use…it’s a supermarket game changer! Jan 16^th, 2026 at 5:28pm Wow, usually I intensely dislike self check out, but this computer pad fitted on trollley, with price scanning and packing your items in the bag….saves time, and not handling items too much anymore. I really like it! Best thing to happen as far as supermarkets go. Try it out next time!
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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3078 Gender:	Re: My first use…it’s a supermarket game changer! Reply #1 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 10:44pm I can see that as a useful tool to stay within budget! That’s always a great thing. Coles is cheaper than Woolworths anyway
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Reply #2 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 4:16am

Sophia wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 5:28pm:

Wow, usually I intensely dislike self check out, but this computer pad fitted on trollley, with price scanning and packing your items in the bag….saves time, and not handling items too much anymore.

I really like it!
Best thing to happen as far as supermarkets go.
Try it out next time!

Good going, I have not tried one yet

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Reply #3 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 9:52am

Daves2017 wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 10:44pm:

I can see that as a useful tool to stay within budget!

That’s always a great thing.

Coles is cheaper than Woolworths anyway

Yes keeping an eye on totals made me feel a bit more in control rather than a bit more surprised at totals at checkout.
And yes I did do Coles shop first but why did coles have no garlic?!
Is there some shortage?
Woolies had garlic but it was almost running out.
Then I got mandarins from Woolies that coles didn’t have, coz I wanted to make this flourless cake with mandarins.
Also coles didn’t have any Brazil nuts but Woolies did.
See….I search and find….bit of a hunter gatherer

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Reply #4 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 9:59am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 4:16am:

Sophia wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 5:28pm:

Wow, usually I intensely dislike self check out, but this computer pad fitted on trollley, with price scanning and packing your items in the bag….saves time, and not handling items too much anymore.

I really like it!
Best thing to happen as far as supermarkets go.
Try it out next time!

Good going, I have not tried one yet

When you do, click in the tab about how to do fruit and veges.
It nearly blew me away! Shocked

I must find out how the f… the weigh scales in fruit and vege section knew what I had bagged to weigh…
Then I grab the scan tool from the computer pad and aim it at the scale info.

Honestly I looked at the scales, looked back at the mandarins to see it was correct.
Geez, and then I really had that weird feeling of being totally watched Grin

I wait with abated breath for someone here to try it all out!

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Reply #5 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:14pm

I'm an old stick-in-the-mud - I prefer to stand in line at a checkout along with all the old ladies with five items who hold the same view - so as to protect jobs.

Without jobs people cannot earn money - without money they cannot buy - without buyers supermarkets cannot sell - their only recourse to sustain their profit margin is then to raise prices - so people can buy less - and eventually the entire farce falls flat on its face.

Go - tell it to the banks.... they are one of the main drivers of massive inflation via their poor lending practices.

The likes of Slim Mehajer can come to them with a hundred million dollar plan, reap the cream, kill the project at its opening to public use, fail to pay contractors, go bankrupt while holding on to millions, cost the banks money, and the banks will still put HOME buyers last ... regardless of their dedication to pay their way via struggle.

The greatest number of 'home approvals' last quarter (I think it was) were for - wait for it - units/apartment blocks..... not free-standing homes for families.... in congenial neighbourhoods with proper infrastructure ... access to transport etc ...

So future flawed, cracked high rise - soon to become vertical slums filled with drug lords and such - are the only way forward for many .... some may fall down in a good earthquake so we can really enter the third world....

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Reply #6 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:31pm

Yes Mr. G. I understand completely and I loathe self check outs.
Handling items putting in cart, then out of cart to scan, then on the weighing platform, then back in cart again.
I much preferred a check out person.
But….one particular Coles has so many self check out conveyor belts, and the machine keeps coming up with some error that one has to stand with hand up in air for assistance and it’s not instant you are noticed.
Then the fact only one aisle with a checkout person with big line up with big trolley loads!
And I reluctantly concede to self check out….
It’s forced upon us.

So now, I’m happier with the computer pad on my trolley.
If it means less jobs (which it already has gone that way) then less wages to pay means the produce and products should be cheaper!
(Yeah like hell Roll Eyes

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Reply #7 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 7:16am

I don’t work for Coles or Woolworths or anywhere else that has job destroying ‘’’convenient’’ technology.

Using self checkout is contributing to unemployment, it’s helping to diminish the number of unskilled jobs.

If people refused to use them then they would not exist.
The only reason for their introduction was more profit for the companies.

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Reply #8 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 7:25am

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Jan 18^th, 2026 at 7:16am:

I don’t work for Coles or Woolworths or anywhere else that has job destroying ‘’’convenient’’ technology.

Using self checkout is contributing to unemployment, it’s helping to diminish the number of unskilled jobs.

If people refused to use them then they would not exist.
The only reason for their introduction was more profit for the companies.

I'm with you on that. 100%

To this day, I still have not used the self-serve checkouts at Coles or Woolworths (or any other supermarket).

Not once.

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Reply #9 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 8:06am

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Jan 18^th, 2026 at 7:16am:

I don’t work for Coles or Woolworths or anywhere else that has job destroying ‘’’convenient’’ technology.

Using self checkout is contributing to unemployment, it’s helping to diminish the number of unskilled jobs.

If people refused to use them then they would not exist.
The only reason for their introduction was more profit for the companies.

How long do you sit in your car at service stations waiting for them to fill your car.

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Reply #10 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 10:10am

Some of those jobs have switched to service people that can’t shop or enter a shop … so there’s “click and collect” … therefore people are still needed to sort online shopping lists and then do the shop and bag it then go out to put shopping in the boot of your vehicle.
There’s still people needed in jobs for stacking shelves, and serving in the deli, and bakers in the kitchen doing breads, cakes, biscuits etc.

I can’t see supermarkets working totally human free.

But I will say, I got smitten with the computer pad on the trolley.
I only have to handle items “once”.
Not 4 times.
And no long queue waiting, you just take scan tool out to register in the machine in self checkout area.
And go. No more handling items over and over and over again.
That saves a hellova lot of time for a shopper. Busy time poor mums, etc

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Reply #11 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 10:16am

….and furthermore, until now, I had tried my darnest avoiding self checkout at all times! I loathe them.
But technology is still moving on whether I liked it or not. It’s forced upon us.
Everyone is going with it even though I went against it.
With most supermarkets only having one conveyor with checkout person, really was constricting and time consuming.
The only thing pleasing me is the computer pad on trolley.

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Reply #13 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 5:14pm

Sophia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2026 at 10:10am:

Some of those jobs have switched to service people that can’t shop or enter a shop … so there’s “click and collect” … therefore people are still needed to sort online shopping lists and then do the shop and bag it then go out to put shopping in the boot of your vehicle.
There’s still people needed in jobs for stacking shelves, and serving in the deli, and bakers in the kitchen doing breads, cakes, biscuits etc.

I can’t see supermarkets working totally human free.

But I will say, I got smitten with the computer pad on the trolley.
I only have to handle items “once”.
Not 4 times.
And no long queue waiting, you just take scan tool out to register in the machine in self checkout area.
And go. No more handling items over and over and over again.
That saves a hellova lot of time for a shopper. Busy time poor mums, etc

very good points there

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Reply #14 - Jan 18^th, 2026 at 7:16pm

Sophia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2026 at 10:10am:

Some of those jobs have switched to service people that can’t shop or enter a shop … so there’s “click and collect” … therefore people are still needed to sort online shopping lists and then do the shop and bag it then go out to put shopping in the boot of your vehicle.
There’s still people needed in jobs for stacking shelves, and serving in the deli, and bakers in the kitchen doing breads, cakes, biscuits etc.

I can’t see supermarkets working totally human free.

But I will say, I got smitten with the computer pad on the trolley.
I only have to handle items “once”.
Not 4 times.
And no long queue waiting, you just take scan tool out to register in the machine in self checkout area.
And go. No more handling items over and over and over again.
That saves a hellova lot of time for a shopper. Busy time poor mums, etc

The conveyor best self checkouts are best as you have lots of real estate to work with.
For small checkouts, scan, then straight into your bag and scan in order you want to pack so no double handling.

I never by fruit or veg from a supermarket (apart from bananas) so no issues with that, and I also never look at prices. I just buy what I need and want

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