The first has become a big problem at Giant Eagle. They no longer have people running checkout. They installed these damn self checkout machines and they don't have anyone actually checking people out. Then you have to scan all your own damn groceries and bag all your own damn groceries and it takes forever. Heaven forbid you buy alcohol, someone has to come over and enter a damn code. Or, OH NO!, the bagging area doesn't sense that your item was placed on the belt. It's on the damn belt. Just let me proceed. Gotta get someone to come over and enter the code again. They spend so much time coming over to enter codes, they could just check me out fulltime. Plus I consider it a basic convenience that the grocery store owes me to bag my groceries. Bagging groceries sucks. It at least provides someone with a job that didn't previously have one. Want to fix unemployment? I'm sure a shitload of baggers used to have jobs that don't know since the invention of these god-awful self checkout machines. So you check out, then while you are bagging your own groceries, someone else starts checking out, there shit comes down the damn belt towards your shit and then all your damn groceries are mixed together and they are just going about their own damn business not caring that this is annoying as hell. And it is annoying as hell. But they don't care, most people really don't even pay a damn bit of attention to the fact that they are screwing up your shit.
The second issue is these damn "bonus" cards that seem to be the rage. Giant Eagle at least gives "fuel perks" for their bonus cards. But tell me what my MVP Card at Food Lion or VIP card at wherever the hell grocery store gets me. I know it gives me discounts - just give me the damn discounts as regular price without signing up for a damn card. If I say I don't have the card, you just swipe a new one which I then throw away, not signing up anyway. This is stupid. Quit bothering me with it. Make everything the same damn price and don't screw with me. Half the time the person behind me in line scans their card, so what is the damn point. Just to gather all our damn information and phone #'s. That's it. To send us coupons and shit. I don't want any of your damn coupons.
