My Walmart Added Self-Checkout Machines..

Haha, I can confirm that. 18 year old cashier myself, I've seen coworkers call over help because they were handed an old 20 dollar bill.

I ended up buying the bill :D

And on the jobs comment, I doubt it'll eliminate those jobs completely. The general public is often too stupid to operate those machines without help.

I wonder if other younger generations had the same confusion over coins/currency now as there was in previous times when it's changed?

For example:
-20 to 30 years after nickels switch from buffalo's to Jefferons.
-When Susan B's or Ikes were first were released.
-20 to 30 years after the change over from merc's to roosies.

We're seeing the modern version of blank stares on your cashiers faces with Ikes, Kennedys, SBA's, Sacs/Pres's, but I wonder if this is simply something that's always been happening.

Once difference though is there probably wasn't as many scam artists out there 90 years ago as there are today and cashiers were more prone to trust/respect their elders in that the coin they are passing isn't BS.

I understand where people are coming from on the 'takes jobs away from people' angle, really. But how about this side of things. My Walmart has 22 registers, including the express lanes. However it doesn't have the manpower to have more than half of them open at any given time. So even with manned lanes removed, no one loses their job to the machines. And this location is a 24 hour supercenter that has even less staff for the night shift, from midnight to 6am or so, there's never more than two registers open at the absolute maximum. Add in the number of 24 hour factories in my area, with people going to Walmart after they get off the clock at night, and it's not uncommon to spend 30-45 minutes in line for 1 item, even at 10:30 when I get off the clock at my job. The self checkout machines, while not popular with most people, have effectively resolved the long wait times and made in-and-out trips that much faster for people, at this location at least.

I had the chick at Menards get out the counterfeit detector pen and stripe the $2's I gave here as if I would make fake $2's instead of a $100's if I was that good

And I'll bet they take $2 bills as well. I take it, they are the machines where you put the change in the machine "below" the scanner? Because, one of my Walmart managers told me that they were new machines, and that was why they took halves. The only think I tried that nearly jammed the machine, but the store people had to open the machine up, to get it back, when I tried an Ike large dollar coin. Also, if you try a half in the machines like at my local Meijer store, that has the change insert above the scanner, they fit halves perfectly, but they still fall through the machine, into the rejection tray.

The only problem is, that the machines should have been made to dispense halves instead of two quarters, and $2 bills instead of two $1 bills.




I started givng my young nephew Ikes when he was really young, and he called them "big quarters" so whenever I gave him halves, I told him they were "medium quarters" and golden dollars were "gold quarters" and with SBAs, I ran out of ideas, so I just told him they were "Carter Quarters" because that was the name of the president who signed the bill into law, even though I'm sure as young as he was, he didn't understand much of it.

My nephew will spend his $2 bills, but will not dare spend his big, and medium quarters.

i gave a girl a 2 dollar bill and got change back for a twenty...i told her..she wanted to argue..i said "my bad"
and walked off..pocketed the difference. I am not going to fight over it

I would not shove a half in those things, they get jammed with 13 dimes to buy a loaf of bread!




well the way most cashiers act, they shouldnt have jobs until they get old enough to be the greeter at Walmart anyway! Walmart is great so long as you don't have to deal with the employees, so these machines are a treasure!