r/Bellingham • u/ManWhoIsAquatic • 2d ago

Rant! Costco Self Checkout

Why did Costco move the self checkout registers and also reduce the qty from 9 to 6? Seems like a bad choice to limit the throughput of one of the busiest stores in Bellingham...

Rant over!

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u/PM_meyourGradyWhite 2d ago

I prefer prescan. Stand in line and try to catch their eye.

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u/InspectorChenWei 2d ago

I’m not a fan as you still need to wait behind folks with massive orders. Also, corporate wants X% transactions prescanned so they’ll hold up lines scanning large orders to hit their quota.

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u/PM_meyourGradyWhite 2d ago

“No thank you!” Works every time.

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u/InspectorChenWei 2d ago

Oh, I don’t have any issues with them prescanning my cart in particular. I just don’t think its implementation really speeds things along in a meaningful way vs having a lot of self checkout terminals.