I'm a bit surprised to see that Fred Meyer was still using signs with the old-looking U-Scan logo, and even more so that they still had quantity limits, in 2010! Both of those feel like relics from the days when Fred Meyer was one of the only places to have self checkouts, with much older machines than the ones here. I believe Fred Meyer is the only place that had self-checkout quantity limits that I ever saw -- Safeway and Albertsons definitely didn't, and I don't believe Walmart did when they introduced them; their early self checkouts had belts, so I doubt it.
I'm not a regular user of Kroger's self-checkouts so I can't say for sure what the usual protocols are, but a fellow Houston retail enthusiast recently mentioned (and took a photo) of a sign at a Houston Kroger self-checkout which said there was a 20 item limit for it and people with more items need to use a manned checkout. Of course, Kroger doesn't always have manned checkout so I don't know how that works, but that's what the sign said!
ReplyDeleteHuh, that's strange! I've only ever seen these signs in these older Fred Meyer decor packages, and I would have thought cashiers would prefer if people with a lot of stuff used self checkout rather than clogging up their lines. I suppose it could be another anti-shoplifting thing.
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