self-check-out

present singular third person self-checks-out · participle present self-checking-out · participle past self-checked-out · past self-checked-out

1. alternativeAlternative form of self-check out.

   As I self-checked-out (a true 2015 phenomenon) I told the “associate” that I would be using MY HOME DEPOT CARD. I swiped it and completed my purchase. When the receipt was spit out, I saw no discount.

   2015, Jason Vines, “Stupid Policies”, in Jimmy Hoffa Called My Mom a Bitch! Profiles in Stupidity, Grapevine, Tex.: Waldorf Publishing, →ISBN, page 186

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   Right now, there are three ways—four, if you count shoplifting—to check out of a supermarket. […] Or you can get into the self-checkout line, where no one has ever actually successfuly self-checked-out without help from a clerk, an assistant manager, a manager and a guy manning a help desk in India.

   2008 February 23, Jim Shea, “Playing ‘What’s My Line?’ at Supermarket Checkout”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXII, number 54, Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Courant Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D1, columns 1–2

   “A lot of what we’re seeing in general retail is going to bleed into cannabis retail, and that is the end consumer being more empowered with different ways to educate themselves and having multiple ways to order items,” said [Anne] Forkutza. “Whether they reserve online, buy online and pickup, or buy online and ship to home, prepaying for items or self-checking-out, the future of retail is more options for that end consumer to shop and buy and educate.”

   2019 January 7, Christopher Jones, “Putting on the Glitz: Cannabis Retail Adds Bling and Smarts to the Menu”, in mg, Woodland Hills, Calif.: CANN Media Group, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022