The Walmart Self Checkout Half Dollar Challenge!

My Wal-mart don't have self-check out. Too cheap. This is for Pennsylvania USA.

DNA,

By "the coin acceptor bucket below the scanner" do you mean the coin acceptors that stick out like a lip and you drop all of your coins in, and they slide down into the machines? Because, thats what my local Walmart that accepts halves has.

And you say those are the new machines, while the ones where the coin acceptors are next to the bill acceptors are the old models? If so, thats great news, because maybe all stores will eventually have to get those machines that do not accept the half replaced with the machines that do accept the half, and then maybe they will circulate more as will $2 bills if someone could convince them to set up the machines to dispense halves and $2 bills as needed, just like any other denomination, then that might even spark the vending industry's interest and they might retool and halves and $2 bills may become as common as quarters and $1 bills. One can only hope, I guess.

Our Walmarts have self checkout, but most of the time you get behind someone who thought it would be better to use self checkout than stand in line... but... they are so slow at doing it that they end up making a longer line at the self checkout!

Either that or the computer illiterate decide they want to try them.

Oh Boy.

I hate self checkouts and boycott them even at the public library solely because they take away jobs (feel free to keep your opinoions about Walmart and American job outsourcing to yourself :)) as I try to do my part whenever I can.

HOWEVER, ask the local Walmart here about that guy that comes in and spends $20-$40 in halves a week on Diet Coke ( Walmart has it for $1.35 a 2 liter while the local grocery store with the coinstar machine wants $2 a 2 liter)

You do the math.

Same thing by me. I've tried those a few times but as stated above, usually takes longer than a cashier. And since so many mess things up there, they have to have an attendant there all the time helping.
And as to using Half Dollar coins, no longer can get them at most of the banks by me.

I've used halves several times in self checkouts. I like them, they are usually much easier and have shorter lines than regular lines. I've even successfully used 2 dollar bills before.

I tried Kennedy halves at the self checkout at new Walmart in Land O Lakes Florida last week at it took them just fine. I thought it was a little slow though. It took the machine about 10 secs each to accept the halves but it did anyway. I believe they are the same machines described by DNA above.

The local Walmart's in my area don't have self check out. To tell the truth I didn't think Walmart's had any self check out because I've seen them. I too prefer self check out. It's usually faster and easier.