02-22-2008, 07:02 AM
Quote:Speaking of geezers in the wilds of retail, old people trying to use self-serve checkouts can be hellacious. I was behind some old lady for a few minutes before I realized she was senile and jumped to another line. I have no idea what she was doing but it looked like a combination of screwing up her card's PIN and having insufficient funds.
Self serve checkouts are a good idea on paper, but from what I've experienced and seen so far it's still got a lot of teething problems.
Many of the ones I've seen are either empty because no one wants to use them, or are staffed to assist customers using them. Making it sort of a Rube Goldberg oxymoronic device.