Ridiculousness [NOT 1/11/23]

1/11/23 brightersideoflife 8

Hi, friends!

I hope your day is going well. Tonight’s theme is ridiculousness.

Specifically, things where you had a double take reaction with a “what is this nonsense?” thought recently.

I got the claim to my health insurance for my COVID booster over last week. $135. Fucking. Ridiculous. My insurance covered it, but wow Pfizer is taking in $$$ hand over fist on those.

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  2. Ridiculous things? Today I went into SuperTarget. I selected my purchases and headed for the registers. There are 35 check out lanes (that’s the Super part). One was open with three people lined up with full grocery carts. Way off in the distance down at the other end of the store, they had four self checkout stations, with 12 people standing in line waiting for them. Two were occupied by people with full cartloads of groceries who were painstakingly ringing up 50-60 items. I was lucky — there were no elderly folk trying to master self checkout today. I only had to wait 10 minutes for a station to open.

    Now I don’t object to self checkout. I’m faster than pretty much every employee they have, and I’m perfectly happy to do it myself and be on my way. But if you’re going to go the self-service route, fucking LEAN INTO IT. Rip out half of the stupid unused checkout lanes and replace them with self checkout. That’s what Walmart did, and they ain’t known for their customer experience.

    • I went our local Fred Meyer (a Kroger grocery store) today early morning, it is in the ghetto of our area.  They are down to 1 or 2 actual checkouts with people & 2 big self checkouts.  It was almost all homeless people wandering the aisles filling carts.  I usually have my headphones on & just do my thing & get the fuck out.  Today, I didn’t wear headphones & as I checked out the guy next to me had an employee over his shoulder making sure he scanned everything.  He had only scanned a few things & was going to just take the rest.  This employee was not having it.  Finally the guy just started cussing out the employee when he realized his brilliant theft plan was not working & walked away.  These guys don’t make enough to deal with this shit.  I’ve seen this worker for years & he is great, I feel so bad he has to deal with this everyday.  All my friends don’t understand why I go to this store but the good wines & quality meats are always marked down, the people that work there are awesome & it is rarely crowded because of above people.

    • There was a SuperTarget in Tuscaloosa with like 35 lanes and there were never more than 4 cashiers.

      Except Black Friday when they managed to have almost every fucking lane open and I had no clue where all the staff came from.

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