Jim Wise

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• David L commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  "self-checkout" is so obviously a flawed concept I prefer the choice at grocery and home improvement stores. And most times pick self checkout. It's faster for me most of the time....
• David L commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  so you never get stuck in a line behind someone who takes forever while you watch other lines race through… Many decades ago we had sold a house, moved into a temp house for 6 months while building a new house. Had been in the new house a month or so and at a check out line for K-Mart my father asked if he could write a check. Sure. He handed over the check and drivers license. Then the cashier asked if the addresses on the check and drivers license were correct. I don't know he said, let me look....
• ilya187 commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  "self-checkout" is so obviously a flawed concept executives at retail chains are slowly retreating from it Unfortunate. I really like self-checkout....
• Howard NYC commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  I'm 6'0" (182.88) and near-sighted... every self-check is positioned to be just a bit too far down for ease of use as well utilizing too small text on a grimy screen... annoying that... but the aggravating thing is veggies each of which as a distinct four digit code... plus it is really annoying hearing my purchases announced one by one... the noise is made worse by all the other kiosks doing it also... just really stupid feature, that...
• Moz commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  When it works well it's great, but the failure modes are truly awful. Sadly it seems that given the choice between easy to use or annoying to steal from, most places are going for the annoying version. Amusingly the local supermarket staff seem to have decided that theft is not their problem so will happily scan their magic card and validate whatever the customer has done regardless of how egregious. Kind of necessary when half the time re-usable shopping bags trigger a machine melt-down "unexpected itme in bagging area"... "I pushed the fucking 'have own bags' button, bags there are...