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Me too. I've that crap down to a science. Nice smoothe rythm not too fast or the scanner gets upset I don't click start or finish to pay I just start scanning stuff and pay when I'm done. No need to wait for the prompts from the machine. I don't get why this stuff is so confusing to many people?
Slowest checkout lines at any Wal-Mart were in the Mexi-Mart that I lived near. Whew, that place was slow. They really needed to update the store with self scanners post-haste.
Let me tell you a SECRET!
At the Walmart U-scan, if you are using a credit card......when you are done scanning your items, ignore everything else and swipe your credit card, the transaction will process and print your receipt.
I shop there when I need things from varied departments, and am always looking to save money. Last year I bought a pair of their brand jeans for $10 to have as beaters for dirty work. The left pocket unraveled at the bottom. Not a big deal, but the $80 Bluetooth earpiece that fell out and disappeared was. Lesson learned.
WM is never exciting, or bright. The employees are often sullen and nearly confrontational. By and large there are more irritating shoppers there than anywhere else. And by a factor of hundreds, there are more carts left free to crash into other cars in the parking lots. That's assuming they're not stopped by dirty diapers or entire bags of trash.
Interestingly, the WM Neighborhood Market that opened last year is much better on all counts than any WM Super Center I've been to.
I was once a cashier at Target, so I'm not blaming any one individual.
More staff could alleviate many of the problems that plague a modern Supercenter.
I think it would be nice if each store could do it's own scheduling. I don't know how they manage it but our schedule is based on info that corporate has about each store. They know the busy times, the down times and everything in between. Final approval does come from the front end manager but it's usually left 'as is'. I understand their scheduling logic, how/why they overlap people coming and going and which registers they open first, and in what order after that, etc.. It doesn't help when three or four people call off at the same time but our managers are really good about jumping on registers and calling for other cashier trained employees. It gets us through some tough times. We are taking applications every day and only once, since I've been there, have I ever seen a sign that they weren't taking them. That was when we were overstaffed for the holidays.
At the Walmart U-scan, if you are using a credit card......when you are done scanning your items, ignore everything else and swipe your credit card, the transaction will process and print your receipt.
I thought everyone knew that. You don't even have to necessarily push the START button either. Just start scanning. And, as you say, you don't have to choose a method of payment either. The machine is at least smart enough to know credit/debit/cash being used.
I thought everyone knew that. You don't even have to necessarily push the START button either. Just start scanning. And, as you say, you don't have to choose a method of payment either. The machine is at least smart enough to know credit/debit/cash being used.
Some of the people using the U-scan have no business doing so.......they have NO idea what they are doing.
I shop there when I need things from varied departments, and am always looking to save money. Last year I bought a pair of their brand jeans for $10 to have as beaters for dirty work. The left pocket unraveled at the bottom. Not a big deal, but the $80 Bluetooth earpiece that fell out and disappeared was. Lesson learned.
WM is never exciting, or bright. The employees are often sullen and nearly confrontational. By and large there are more irritating shoppers there than anywhere else. And by a factor of hundreds, there are more carts left free to crash into other cars in the parking lots. That's assuming they're not stopped by dirty diapers or entire bags of trash.
Interestingly, the WM Neighborhood Market that opened last year is much better on all counts than any WM Super Center I've been to.
Some of the people using the U-scan have no business doing so.......they have NO idea what they are doing.
Have to agree with you there. I see it every day and it's one of the reasons I don't like working the self checkouts. They keep me jumping just because they don't read instructions, try to go to fast...or not fast enough...and I'm just running from one scanner to the next, constantly.
Have to agree with you there. I see it every day and it's one of the reasons I don't like working the self checkouts. They keep me jumping just because they don't read instructions, try to go to fast...or not fast enough...and I'm just running from one scanner to the next, constantly.
Yes, I believe you are right....most of the U-scan problems are caused by the customer.
But the U-scans are still relatively new, a work in progress, still quite a few bugs and glitches that pop-up from time to time. I know that sometimes I will set an item onto the bagging-area after scanning....and that dang "unexpected item in bagging area" alarm will start screeching. Just today the u-scan crashed, yes....locked-up, when I tried to scan a fricken carrot.
Because I am curious and because if other stores sell it, it's not necessarily a Walmart problem.
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I don't click start or finish to pay I just start scanning stuff and pay when I'm done. No need to wait for the prompts from the machine. I don't get why this stuff is so confusing to many people?
