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I love self checkout. Want me to work for your retail company? I’ll set the wages.

Like many big boxes most of my local ones are fairly empty if employees. Home depot used to have somewhat knowledgeable people in each zone. Now something like 2 guys cover the entire store. It takes an hour to get a pallet of wood down. Answers they provide are often wrong, even about their own inventory. It has become a shopping hell. But nothing else is open Saturday at 9pm when the water heater breaks. 90% of the time the only option is self check out. The employee there is also covering the tool area and cleaning and who knows what else. So I have to work for free to check out my own stuff, watch to see if prices are right etc? I didn’t sign up for that gig. So I pay myself a little something most of the time. A nice paintbrush, a new pair of pliers, plumbing…


Like many big boxes most of my local ones are fairly empty if employees. Home depot used to have somewhat knowledgeable people in each zone. Now something like 2 guys cover the entire store. It takes an hour to get a pallet of wood down. Answers they provide are often wrong, even about their own inventory. It has become a shopping hell. But nothing else is open Saturday at 9pm when the water heater breaks.

90% of the time the only option is self check out. The employee there is also covering the tool area and cleaning and who knows what else.

So I have to work for free to check out my own stuff, watch to see if prices are right etc? I didn’t sign up for that gig. So I pay myself a little something most of the time. A nice paintbrush, a new pair of pliers, plumbing fittings, a box of staples, a nice parting gift feels appropriate for the hour of my life I will never get back because you refuse to staff adequately.

I absolutely shop at the actual plumbing supply house when it is open. The guys there know their stuff and help out whenever possible. They seems like they get a living wage. Unfortunately the local hardware place pays even worse. The electrical supplier only does commercial.

I’m stuck with homeboy, but I don’t work for free.

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