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It really irritates me when an older person 50 and up is in the u-scan line because they always need help to use it. It never fails even if they have just one item either they can’t ready the screen, press the icon, move there finger away from the barcode so it will scan. I try to be a patient person but why don’t they just go to the normal line?
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HAHA, and how many times have you actually had this problem?
Twice? Come on, get real, you have more time left on this world than us, and if they want to waste it by chatting up the cashier in aisle three, then let them.
EDIT: To the girl under me: What do you have to be ashamed of? I bet I’m older than you!!
You use the you scan line? I can barely figure out the controls, myself.I think that someone has had to help me every single time. I’m embarrassed to say my age now.
They use the do-it-yourself scan line because they want to. Instead of getting upset with people who opt, not to use the scan line, offer to help them. Patience is a virtue & we all need to have it & use it.
If you think 50 and up (should be 50 and over, by the way) is old, then I can’t wait until you get there! How rude!
My sister in law actually assists people in the UScan lines.
No one does very well at it.
Its not an age issue.
But everyone has to learn things for a first time,at some point.
Hopefully, when you are being trained on a new job, those older people
will have patience with you.
BTW it is a young person’s misconcept that older people arent mentally adept. We’ve survived this world this long.
And that takes more than you realize.
You have no idea what that means yet, nor how to do it.
In the “normal ” lines are the young welfare recipients with their carts full of snacks, and their screaming kids
Here we go again. Blaming all old people for the few that seemingly annoy you. You know it gets old seeing people complain about “old” people, he he, a little pun there. Instead of complaining why not help the old people with their problems. You are also declaring old people stupid, since they cant learn to us the scan system.
I personally have no problems using the scan system. I use it all the time when buying gas. However, I choose to go though the check out lines. Gives me a chance to chat with the cashier and flirt with the “old” ladies in line. Which I am sure annoys you cause I am slowing down the checkout system.
i think those u scans are the dumbest things….is this supposed to be a time saver? its certainly not a money saver for wal mart…they have a camera always fixed and running on the thing, then someone standing around to make sure you dont “fake scan” just put her behind the counter for god sake and in case anyone is interested i miss the sack and carry people service is getting less and less..oh they will help you…”just ask” they say, then after 5 people have been told you need help carrying things you wait. and wait..service isn’t the same.. you should have been around a few years ago…notice how snappy and contrite nurse’s are these days? In my day you would be written up just for giving a patient a hard look. You think 50 is old? i thought my mother was ancient and out of it too…..she was 36…lmao
This old person doesn’t use the u-scan line because I just don’t like them. That machine has put at least one cashier out of a job. If you like them though and the next time your in line and see someone struggling offer to help.
Dear Brandi
May that be the biggest annoyance in your life.
Brandi, It’s obvious that we old people just want to irritate you. Would you like me to tell you about the rude people of all ages that are out in the world today and make everyone’s life a little less pleasant? Well, I won’t. Life is what you make of it, and if five minutes behind a person who’s moving slowly irritates you so much, you might want to take a few deep breaths and smile. You’ll be out in the sunshine again soon.
Daubing with a rather wide brush aren’t you? We ‘old’ people at the ripe old age of 50 and up might well ask why are all young people so impatient and rude. That, too, would be an over-generalization. You might keep this thought in mind – it is better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
That said, it’s certainly up to each customer, whether young or ‘old’ to decide whether or not to use the u-scan line. There are plenty of young people who have trouble with the process and it has nothing to do with age or dexterity.
Doesn’t sound like you really try to be helpful-everyone is trying to learn all the new contraptions we’ve had pushed on us. What’s wrong with teaching someone how to use these things properly, and THEN they won’t be bothering you next time. Unless they are being belligerent, why not just walk them through the process?
You’re a patient person? Did you ever think that the person in front of you was using the scan for the first time? The first time I used the u-scan it took me a couple of minutes to get the hang of it. But I had wanted to try it for a while and that day the only checkout open besides that one was manned by a young clerk who had a friend standing at the counter while she worked . They were talking and laughing and just generally slowing everything down. I tried to be a patient person and wait but why didn’t she just shut up and do her job?
Brandi, may I remind you that the woman who won the Olympics in swimming for the US was over 50. You make some pretty broad generalizations there. Why don’t you call the store, announce you are coming and have them clear the u scan line for you. That way you can get back to you Twittering.
We (50 and over)will just watch from afar at the wonder of how you do so amazingly well. Standing with us will be people like surgeons, astronauts, chemists, or in other words the majority of the US population but. hey, it’s Brandi, and she has things to do.By the way. Maybe if you weren’t yelling into your cell phone the person in line ahead of you would not be distracted. PS Ever offer to help?
It’s not just the 50 and over. Tell your boss that you don’t like working there or don’t get behind someone who is so much dumber than you are. All the problems in the world and you whine about this. Please!
So you say you never had that problem
YOUNGIN? OH YEA
I forgot; so you’re saying by your question that
WE’RE DUMB, STUPID, IGNORANT, FOOLS, ETC. TOO?
I like them , that’s why I use them. I don’t need help , thank you. I also pump my own gas for the car.
At some stores I also bag my own groceries. I also put them in the order I want them bagged at stores that have their own bagging people because the young one bagging can’t get the hang of not putting soft bread on the bottom of canned goods.
I have also bagged for another if they are in the ‘bag your own’ store and are unable to do it well themselves.
What have you done for someone else lately?
It’s not easy to move our hands real fast because of the debilitating arthritis. Plus, we are worn out from pushing that cart around the store, trying to find the aisle where the one thing we need to buy is located. We no sooner locate the aisle and realize that we left the car running! So, as fast as our legs can go, we hobble out to the car to turn it off. Then return to the store and, of course, with our excessive memory loss, we have to start at aisle one and work our way around the store. Finally locate the correct aisle, and dang, we have to pee! So, we hobble to the bathroom, pee, then try to find the correct aisle. Have you any idea how frustrated we are at that point? Finally, we have the desired item safely in our shopping cart. Another hobble to the checkout u-scan line. But, gosh-darn-it, even though we’ve used it many times before, the old memory has no recollection. So, of course, we will take a long time. And, when we finally correctly scan our one item and search for our cash and/or credit card, realize we left our wallet in the car. . . . . oops!
B/C the U-scan line doesn’t work. At least not at my grocers & the check out helpers are ALL getting frustrated with these machines b/c they have to keep stepping in to override errors.
I scan product, place in bag at station & machine get stuck telling me to place product in bag. I’m not going to slam dunk my eggs in a bag just so machine can calibrate.
I buy my produce code #609 apples at .89 cent a pound. It rings up red bell peppers at 1.99 a pound. The impatient clerk comes over to code in the “right” produce number (acting all pissed off) and SURPRISE, she gets the same results & they have to override the old red bell pepper code to be for apples now.
Then I insert my coupons and get response, “invalid, item was not purchased.” Get same sassy clerk who proceeds to tell me that coupon needs to match exact brand product, not a variation of product. So I point out everything that matches, she agrees & needs supervisor to over ride defective scan.
I think more of the problem is in the technology & not the users b/c I see this happening equally with old & young alike. Those of us who have learned our lesson after 4 or 5 attempts, pity the newbies who have entered Dante’s 3rd circle of he!! going to the “quicker” U-scan lines with $50 worth of product & regular line has cleared a $300 basket quicker.
Well, I don’t know which stores you shop at but all the ones I go to HATE that u-scan line because THE MACHINE ALWAYS screws up…the young and the old hate it and won’t use it. Besides that…..why should ANYONE want to do that scan line? I am spending money in that store and NOT getting paid like the regular check-out people that are working. Then you have to bag your own items too. Why should I do their jobs??
Another thing, I feel really sorry for your grandparents because you just implied that they are not smart enough to use it. That’s sad….
And one more thing….why don’t you be a kind person and offer your help if they are having trouble since you seem to know all about it…..