First, let me get this out of the way. At nearly all SCOs in town, if you bring your own bag, it triggers an attendant to come verify. It kinda defeats the purpose of SCO, since most people bring bags, because our town has banned plastic ones. Very often the attendant does the override from their station, if they have one. If not, it literally takes about two seconds.
Story:
Had three things to buy, see two people at the regular checkout, which is right next to the SCOs. So I choose SCO. Put my bag on, hit the "I brought my own bag" option, which triggers an attendant to verify the bag. There are six SCOs, and there is not one, but TWO store employees fiddling with two separate SCO registers. They do not appear to be helping other customers, since I am the only non-employee at any of the SCOs. I wait. I try to get one's attention, but she is glued to the screen of that register. Really. She was staring at that screen with the intensity of a Whovian told that David Tennant did porn with Matt Smith, and the only way to watch it was to win a staring contest with the screen.
I could have tried harder to pry one of them away, but a large part of why I went to the SCO was that I was hungry and cranky and didn't want to speak to another freaking person. At this point I see the the last person at the regular checkout is paying. I go to that register. I say "yup" when asked if I found everything. I pay. I leave.
EDIT: I just realized I could have just chosen the "no bag" option, bought my things, and put them in the bag after the transaction was completed. Damn it!
Story:
Had three things to buy, see two people at the regular checkout, which is right next to the SCOs. So I choose SCO. Put my bag on, hit the "I brought my own bag" option, which triggers an attendant to verify the bag. There are six SCOs, and there is not one, but TWO store employees fiddling with two separate SCO registers. They do not appear to be helping other customers, since I am the only non-employee at any of the SCOs. I wait. I try to get one's attention, but she is glued to the screen of that register. Really. She was staring at that screen with the intensity of a Whovian told that David Tennant did porn with Matt Smith, and the only way to watch it was to win a staring contest with the screen.
I could have tried harder to pry one of them away, but a large part of why I went to the SCO was that I was hungry and cranky and didn't want to speak to another freaking person. At this point I see the the last person at the regular checkout is paying. I go to that register. I say "yup" when asked if I found everything. I pay. I leave.
EDIT: I just realized I could have just chosen the "no bag" option, bought my things, and put them in the bag after the transaction was completed. Damn it!
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