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RainMan · 02-03-2003, 12:37 AM

What a day it has been!

Today, we went to Des Moines to the flea market, after we got out around 1:30PM, I begged my dad if we could go to Big Kmart because the one on Hubbel Avenue was the only Kmart in Des Moines i've never been to let alone never even seen the building. I ask like 30 times in the car begging him to make that right turn and he finally did, just to shut me up. We get to the Kmart pretty fast because it's only like 2 miles from the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

We pull in, me not caring that there are mexicans and black people crowding the front and etc. (NO OFFENSE GUYS) but this is that part of town, you know? Anyways, the Kmart looks as if it was built in the 70s, which it was. But I love the old ones cuz I said "Sweet, a Fort Dodge type Kmart!" to my parents. My parents stayed in the car cuz they wanted to look at my dad's car book he got at the swap meet for $15.00.

As I walk in the store, it looked pretty big, well, it is Des Moines ya know. I look to the right and see the Pharmacy, but something caught my eye when I looked to the left, something I've never seen before in ANY Kmart I've ever been to.

I saw........................................................................................

SELF CHECKOUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought, THOSE ARE SO DAMN COOL! The store had 15 checkouts, including the four self checkouts, a Little Caesar's Pizza Station/K Cafe, Pharmacy, Olan Mills Portrait Studio, Garden Shop, a Penske Auto Centre (From when it was there), but no One Hour Photo

.

As I'm exploring, I thought, "Thank God I have my camera with me," cuz when I first saw the self checkouts I took two pictures right there just of them! I work my way around the store. Of course, I'm sidetracked at the Electronics because that's my favourite department of any store. Their video game department was impressive, having everything I could find there pretty much. Then off to toys, which had a whopping 12 toy aisles! The Big Kmart in Carroll only has 9!!!!!! Work my way around the Pantry, Health and Beauty, Garden Shop, Automotive (which was also huge), Do it Yourself, and Gift and Party.

I come back around the front, and I said to myself I MUST BUY SOMETHING cuz I was short on cash (I only had like 4 bucks.) I took a picture of like the checkouts and there was a guy at the customer service desk and when he saw the flash he kept staring at me as if I took a picture of him cuz I thought he was hot or something (which he was lol,) but I didn't. So I bought a Mountain Dew, Winterfresh Gum, and a Nestle Crunch w/ Caramel bar and took it to Checkout 3 of the Self-Checkouts.

I think I was a bit TOO enthusiastic about the self checkouts (probably cuz I've never seen them before in any store.) The machine said "Welcome To Kmart" I was like, Oh my god that is so cool! and as I was scanning my items through the scanner I was like this is soo cool & this is so sweet! I was like havin more fun than playin nintendo so something! I kept like saying it was cool and everything and people from the other checkouts, cashiers and customers, were like staring at me and giving me looks but I didn't care. I was glad they were! The total was 1.79 and I put 2 one dollar bills in. It gave me my change and it said "Thank You For Shopping Kmart" and for some odd reason I just burst out laughing with joy.

When I got back in the car I thanked my dad like a million times for going to this Kmart store! It is right up there with my favourite location, Carroll, Iowa. I hope I can visit this Kmart again cuz I don't know of another Kmart store that has self checkouts!

The picture below is my reciept. I checked out at 2:08PM CST on 02/02/03.

In my opinion, THIS WAS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nate

¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ · 02-03-2003, 12:44 AM

Yah I didnt bother to read the whole thing. At our Kmart in Londonderry, theres been self check-outs for a while. When you work @ a grocery store as a cashier.. its really not that exciting, believe me. But yah, I prefer to do those anyway LOl. My mom can never figure them out though. And theyre so friggan annoying with the please bag last item! blah blah blah.

Ian · 02-03-2003, 12:48 AM

I hate to break it to you, Nate, but nobody cares!

Hollow · 02-03-2003, 12:50 AM

The kmart freak's never seen 1 b4 and i have...

Chocoholic · 02-03-2003, 12:52 AM

But if they replace human cashiers with self-checkouts, then who are the rude, disgruntled customers going to yell at?

RainMan · 02-03-2003, 12:53 AM

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Originally posted by WingsFan
But if they replace human cashiers with self-checkouts, then who are the rude, disgruntled customers going to yell at?

They can kick the self-checkout machine or knock it over if they get pissed off lol

But good point

But who am I to complain? I never complain when I'm at Kmart!

Nate

¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ · 02-03-2003, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by WingsFan
But if they replace human cashiers with self-checkouts, then who are the rude, disgruntled customers going to yell at?

Themselves? LOl. They should keep it to themselves anyways. Like Ive said before, I dont get paid enough to listen to their bitching. OR their children. Why would you bring all your kids to the supermarket anyways?!?!??!?!?

DarleneIllyria · 02-03-2003, 12:54 AM

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Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
Yah I didnt bother to read the whole thing.

Yeah, ditto. I remember I went to this Kmart and it had lottery ticket machines. I was still too young to buy my own lottery tickets, but I begged mom to buy me some. She bought me some, but I didn't win anything. Dammit. Oh well, it was pretty cool seeing a lottery ticket machine inside a Kmart.

Wow, to think if I had won something off them lottery tickets I would probably love Kmart for the rest of my life. I would prob. run my own Kmart website too. Proudly say that I won such amount from a machine in a Kmart. I didn't win and our Kmart was too hick to have a lottery machine. No wonder it closed.

Chocoholic · 02-03-2003, 12:59 AM

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Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤

Themselves? LOl. They should keep it to themselves anyways. Like Ive said before, I dont get paid enough to listen to their bitching.

Same here. It's always something. "It's too hot outside. It's too cold in the store. The store is out of this. That item rang up wrong. There aren't enough registers open. It's my fault if bank cards or credit cards don't go through. Yadda yadda yadda!"

RainMan · 02-03-2003, 01:08 AM

that happens at our local grocery stores..........always too busy cuz their lazy asses can't make it to the front from their cigarette break!

Nate

*ShortCake* · 02-03-2003, 01:12 AM

LOL I never go to my k-mart.. its like old people city in there. and all the old men are just scary!! ( no offence to any of you on here.. but i mean they are lik ein their 90s LOL)

*Magic_Fairy_Tiff * · 02-03-2003, 01:17 AM

thats cool about the selfcheckout thing! I was at K-Mart today and bought a cd(since walmart didnt have it)and a candy bar!

Czas na Zywiec · 02-03-2003, 01:20 AM

Self Check Outs have been in the market for quite some time, it's no big deal. It's not the greatest thing since sliced bread, so calm down. And yea, I do take offense to your...

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We pull in, me not caring that there are mexicans and black people crowding the front and etc. (NO OFFENSE GUYS) but this is that part of town, you know?

I hate to break it to ya but I grew up close to that part of a town and there's nothing wrong with those people. There's nothing wrong with any people at all! You have some real nerve saying this over the net, cause if this was in person, you'd probably be gasping for air right now from everyone trying to choke you. Maybe I should call dawsongirl to meet you in that K-Mart so she can just give ya a big slap in the face. But I wouldn't submit her to that kind of punishment of meeting you.

Bonnie Is Great! · 02-03-2003, 01:21 AM

I work at Kroger

...I hate that place, but anyway we have had self check outs for like 2 years now. To me it is no big deal.

RainMan · 02-03-2003, 01:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Original Prankster
Self Check Outs have been in the market for quite some time, it's no big deal. It's not the greatest thing since sliced bread, so calm down. And yea, I do take offense to your...

I hate to break it to ya but I grew up close to that part of a town and there's nothing wrong with those people. There's nothing wrong with any people at all! You have some real nerve saying this over the net, cause if this was in person, you'd probably be gasping for air right now from everyone trying to choke you. Maybe I should call dawsongirl to meet you in that K-Mart so she can just give ya a big slap in the face. But I wouldn't submit her to that kind of punishment of meeting you.

Gee, thanks for the "God I'm Fucqked in the Head" remark!

Nate

02-03-2003, 12:37 AM	#1
RainMan Member Senior Member Join Date: Feb 09, 2002 Location: Churdan, Iowa USA (Wish it was the UK so I could go to Holmfirth, West Yorkshire to see the cast of Last of the Summer Wine!) Posts: 1,175	Kmart Self Checkouts What a day it has been! Today, we went to Des Moines to the flea market, after we got out around 1:30PM, I begged my dad if we could go to Big Kmart because the one on Hubbel Avenue was the only Kmart in Des Moines i've never been to let alone never even seen the building. I ask like 30 times in the car begging him to make that right turn and he finally did, just to shut me up. We get to the Kmart pretty fast because it's only like 2 miles from the Iowa State Fairgrounds. We pull in, me not caring that there are mexicans and black people crowding the front and etc. (NO OFFENSE GUYS) but this is that part of town, you know? Anyways, the Kmart looks as if it was built in the 70s, which it was. But I love the old ones cuz I said "Sweet, a Fort Dodge type Kmart!" to my parents. My parents stayed in the car cuz they wanted to look at my dad's car book he got at the swap meet for $15.00. As I walk in the store, it looked pretty big, well, it is Des Moines ya know. I look to the right and see the Pharmacy, but something caught my eye when I looked to the left, something I've never seen before in ANY Kmart I've ever been to. I saw........................................................................................ SELF CHECKOUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought, THOSE ARE SO DAMN COOL! The store had 15 checkouts, including the four self checkouts, a Little Caesar's Pizza Station/K Cafe, Pharmacy, Olan Mills Portrait Studio, Garden Shop, a Penske Auto Centre (From when it was there), but no One Hour Photo . As I'm exploring, I thought, "Thank God I have my camera with me," cuz when I first saw the self checkouts I took two pictures right there just of them! I work my way around the store. Of course, I'm sidetracked at the Electronics because that's my favourite department of any store. Their video game department was impressive, having everything I could find there pretty much. Then off to toys, which had a whopping 12 toy aisles! The Big Kmart in Carroll only has 9!!!!!! Work my way around the Pantry, Health and Beauty, Garden Shop, Automotive (which was also huge), Do it Yourself, and Gift and Party. I come back around the front, and I said to myself I MUST BUY SOMETHING cuz I was short on cash (I only had like 4 bucks.) I took a picture of like the checkouts and there was a guy at the customer service desk and when he saw the flash he kept staring at me as if I took a picture of him cuz I thought he was hot or something (which he was lol,) but I didn't. So I bought a Mountain Dew, Winterfresh Gum, and a Nestle Crunch w/ Caramel bar and took it to Checkout 3 of the Self-Checkouts. I think I was a bit TOO enthusiastic about the self checkouts (probably cuz I've never seen them before in any store.) The machine said "Welcome To Kmart" I was like, Oh my god that is so cool! and as I was scanning my items through the scanner I was like this is soo cool & this is so sweet! I was like havin more fun than playin nintendo so something! I kept like saying it was cool and everything and people from the other checkouts, cashiers and customers, were like staring at me and giving me looks but I didn't care. I was glad they were! The total was 1.79 and I put 2 one dollar bills in. It gave me my change and it said "Thank You For Shopping Kmart" and for some odd reason I just burst out laughing with joy. When I got back in the car I thanked my dad like a million times for going to this Kmart store! It is right up there with my favourite location, Carroll, Iowa. I hope I can visit this Kmart again cuz I don't know of another Kmart store that has self checkouts! The picture below is my reciept. I checked out at 2:08PM CST on 02/02/03. In my opinion, THIS WAS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nate Attached Images

02-03-2003, 12:44 AM	#2
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02-03-2003, 01:12 AM	#11
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02-03-2003, 01:17 AM	#12
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02-03-2003, 01:21 AM	#14
Bonnie Is Great! Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 23, 2002 Location: Rock on! Can ya handle it? Cat is the best! Posts: 488	I work at Kroger ...I hate that place, but anyway we have had self check outs for like 2 years now. To me it is no big deal.
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02-03-2003, 12:48 AM	#3
Ian Member Senior Member Join Date: Nov 03, 2000 Posts: 1,235	I hate to break it to you, Nate, but nobody cares!

02-03-2003, 12:50 AM	#4
Hollow Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 16, 2001 Posts: 30,406	The kmart freak's never seen 1 b4 and i have...

02-03-2003, 12:52 AM	#5
Chocoholic Member Forum Star Join Date: Dec 01, 2000 Location: Between a rock and a hard place. Posts: 11,235	But if they replace human cashiers with self-checkouts, then who are the rude, disgruntled customers going to yell at?

02-03-2003, 01:08 AM	#10
RainMan Member Senior Member Join Date: Feb 09, 2002 Location: Churdan, Iowa USA (Wish it was the UK so I could go to Holmfirth, West Yorkshire to see the cast of Last of the Summer Wine!) Posts: 1,175	that happens at our local grocery stores..........always too busy cuz their lazy asses can't make it to the front from their cigarette break! Nate