Emily the Flareon

A couple months ago the supermarket installed new self checkouts that had hand scanners, and retrofitted them on the existing ones. When I first saw this I thought, wow, that'll really speed things up. Then I remembered that you'd still have to put everything in the bags and move very very slowly so the stupid scale can keep up.

Then I finally tried them the other day and discovered you can scan as fast as you want. I wondered how they dealt with this - like, does the scale just have a delay, and it sums up periodically and only alarms if something doesn't make sense? I've since learned the answer is that they turned off the scale completely, and the machine doesn't care at all if you put stuff in the bags or in your cart or what.

I suspect that they finally realized that the only types of people who exist are "wouldn't even steal if nobody was watching" and "will game any system you come up with", and just shut all the safeties off. This is the best outcome for everyoUNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA

Oh this explains a lot. As someone who often brings my own bags or loads into a backpack I’ve noticed that I’ve gotten a lot less “please wait for attendant” than I used to which honestly incentivizes me to use self checkout more. I can’t fit all my shit on your tiny bagging rack you jerks

Something I've begun to realize is that whenever I draw goblins, they always have a very cat-like flair to them. I guess goblins just seem feline to me.

Actually it's felines that seem goblin to you