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But no, to answer your question, the very very minimal savings a grocery store saves by having a percentage of people check their own groceries while an employee supervises them at about a 1/4 ratio won't cause a large decrease in food prices. If they automated the ENTIRE CHECK OUT process, with no choice for self-check, that still wouldn't cause your jelly and eggs to have a marked decrease in price.
Grocery stores have not lowered prices after installing self checkout lanes.
Food prices have been kept remarkably flat though. In short term trends. Long term food prices as a share of income have fallen dramatically. Used to take twice as much of a typical family budget in 1960.
My neighbor said the rotisserie chicken was mispriced as coleslaw at $2. She had never been through the self checkout and that was her first time. A checker would have noticed
I'm shocked that it went through. Everyplace I've been to has had a corresponding weight. If things don't add up on the scale in the baggage area, the whole process comes to a stop until a manager overrides things or you get the weight/pricing right.
I'm shocked that it went through. Everyplace I've been to has had a corresponding weight. If things don't add up on the scale in the baggage area, the whole process comes to a stop until a manager overrides things or you get the weight/pricing right.
The store I go to has self scanners when you walk in the door. You scan your items and bag them as you go though the store and then, at the self checkout, you click a button on the hand scanner to say you are finished, a bar code comes up on the device, and you just scan that bar code and all your groceries are rung up. In that kind of situation, something mislabeled would easily pass. Funny thing though, all the times I've ever scanned things, they've never scanned cheaper for me. Sometimes, things on sale don't scan as on sale and I have to get the manager to override when I check out. That doesn't happen often and most times I don't bother. I put the item back instead of buying it. It's too much of a hassle to stand there and wait and try to explain things too.
Overall, I like the hand scanners and self checkout. I get to see how much my groceries are as I shop and I know right away if something is marked as on sale but really isn't. But I can easily see how someone could game the system. My store does random audits when you check out. If you are flagged, they come by and check 10 random items and make sure you scanned them and scanned them properly.
If you think gross revenue is a reliable indicator of margins you don't understand how business works. Uber's revenue was 11 billion, how does that speak for their margins?
Now you're confusing the founding family's net worth with operating margins.
If you were trying to refute the fact that the grocery business is small margin high competition you have failed miserably. You're good at posting smiley faces at least.
Whatever their profit margin is, it is way, way more than enough.
I guess this isnt too surprising, that so many people are 'gaming' the grocery store self checkout systems!Its interesting to think about though, as one person in the comments attempted to justify the theft since the stores are basically charging you to do work they should be doing, ( I will admit, I never thought about it like that).
Im curious to see what you guys think, is it theft or payment for work performed at the store?
I think the last hold out for that is commissaries on military bases. The baggers have carts they wheel your groceries to the car in and load them up...for an expected tip(they get no wages) not really free. They can get pushy about it.
Many despise the practice.
Grocery store here (Market St chain) takes every customer out to car, no tip...no aholes' strewn carts all over the place. Just pleasant service.
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