I agree. Self-check should come with a discount of some kind. For a lot of people it will absolutely feel/be unpaid labor. For me it’s a way to keep control over things and I am willing for that to be the case, but a lot of people are getting shoved into self-check due to lack of paid employees and cutbacks on cashier hours. It’s ridiculous.
I prefer self-checkout because cashiers don’t know shit about bagging groceries in a reasonable manner. I don’t like dealing with people and I like my groceries bagged to my specifications. Self-checkout is a godsend.
That said…
I have made mistakes. I’ve accidently stolen from WalMart. I’ve been an employee of WalMart; I am not crying over this. WalMart is a shit employer and they have a ton of self-check so they can continue to refuse full time jobs to cashiers so they don’t have to pay benefits. Fuck them.
browsing in new I have seen a !houseplants but I’m not sure which instance it was on. It would be nice to see cozyplaces or something like it though.
That’s what I did with St Louis Blues. There was no community here to I started one, asked for help and already have a second mod. We try to post1 or 2 news stories a day to start. Convo will happen when off-season really kicks in and then we will have pre-season and by then Lemmy/Kbin should be established.
As soon as I find someone with the passion for it I am transferring the community though, I have enough to mod lol
It’s not sanctimonious. We care what our members think and feel. We have the open support of the author we’re the fandom for, even saying he’d follow us to a new platform if the community decided to go to one. There’s nothing sanctimonious about caring about a community and letting the collective decide what to do. We don’t “own” the community, we caretake it. We don’t exercise power without the fans being behind it.
I’m a mod of a group of related subreddits that are all part of the same fandom community. We’ve been polling our members each step of the way so we can represent their interests and not just shut down because the mods wanted to. Our subs voted to stay dark for a week, and on the 19th we will reopen, but Restricted, so we can poll again to see what our next steps, as a community, are. We won’t just pull the plug on our communities without their consent, and while we’re dark we’re researching alternative platforms to rehome on if that’s needed.
We have reusable nylon bags and those are nice and sturdy. My local grocer… I line up my groceries on the belt in little piles and put one bag with each pile. I would think the point was obvious. They grab the bags and just throw whatever they want into each bag. raw meats mixed with boxed goods. heavy items on my eggs. I dislike going to my local grocer because there’s no self-check option. I was a cashier for a while and got a lot of compliments and praise from my customers because I bagged smartly. It’s not that hard to say “oh this is a freezer item, maybe I should put it with other freezer items”.