ANNE ROUMANOFF, THAT'S GOOD
It was a first Sunday near Angers. The Casino La Roseraie hypermarket opened in the afternoon, without cashiers. Instead, only automatic checkpoints and vigils, which makes the unions fear a generalization of the process and job cuts. A rally to protest against this new organization took place on Sunday. An event that did not fail to react also Anne Roumanoff. The host of Europe 1 has split a ticket on the occasion of its first show of the season. She regrets that "the cashiers are disappearing and everyone cares".
"Sunday, a hypermarket without cashiers opened near Angers.Before, the supermarkets made crates for their customers, now, it is the customers who make the cash! I Sunday I did my shopping in a supermarket of neighborhood in Paris and there were no cashiers either Franprix, Monoprix, Casino, I do not want to denounce because it's not my style ... It was Franprix.
Have you ever tried using an automatic pay station? I can guarantee you something. After trying to use a pay station, you'll never say 'cashier is a shit job'. It's very complicated to be a cashier. Customers rely on you to go fast but they do not calculate you. They make a joke when you announce the total, they are always surprised that the bags are paying. An automatic cash register has nothing to do with it.
An automatic cash register is like a normal cash register, except that it smells of the unemployment curve and that Polytechnique must have been used to using it. At first, though, it's simple. You scan the barcode of your product and you hear that melodious sound. Except that sometimes you try to scan and you do not hear anything. You reposition your organic chicken breast, still nothing. And there, the automatic cash register announces you 'product not found, please contact the cashier'.
Except that the cashier is not there. No to lower the salary cost of the company, he is at home watching Netflix. There, you say to the vigil 'sir, please, my cash is locked'. There, the watchman takes an exasperated air, like you're 'teube' not to manage to operate an automatic checkout. You make him a charming smile, your kitten eyes and he enters a mysterious code to unlock your automatic checkout.
In fact, if you have two / three items to scan, the automatic pay station is fantastic. But me Sunday at Franprix, I made a full fridge for the back. Essentially vegetables because that's how I maintain this line that influencers around the world envy me. Except that vegetables must be weighed. For that, you have to go to the automatic scale.
On Sunday, while I was at the automatic scale, a guy tried to steal my place at the automatic pay station. You know me, I am of a nice temperament but do not look for me. 'My box, you took my box', I shouted at the guy. All the products I scanned painstakingly for 20 minutes were gone. 'Fanculo', replied the guy. 'Excuse me, what did you say, I asked?' It's also true, we do not say 'fanculo', we say 'Va fanculo'. There, a manager appeared and said 'we calm down sir, we'll open a manual cashier'. There, an old lady said 'oh well, see when you want'. 'Frankly, madam, we prefer when there are cashiers,' said the security guard, 'there everyone is yelling at us. Serious, one is vigilant not assistant of automatic checkout '. 'Yes it's not their fault, said another lady, they are there, they work, they do what they can and they take for everyone'.
I do not know about you, but I think that instead of removing the cashiers at the checkout, I would have preferred that the supermarkets remove the queue at the checkout. Cash boxes without cashiers? It's the big fashion without it. No sugar, no fat, no cashier. Basically, we take away everything we like. Before, we were in search of meaning. Now, we are in the conquest of the without!
Cashier without cashier? Already we have bread without gluten, emergency services without means, wages without purchasing power. What is the next step. A driverless car? A planet without forest?
The cashiers are disappearing and everyone does not care. But we customers, we still have the right to say that we prefer a cashier even a bit sullen, a cashless automatic cashier in a supermarket dehumanized.
Dear directors of Carrefour, Auchan, Monoprix, Franprix, Casino, give us the cashiers, otherwise we will go shopping on the Internet. Even if you do not see anyone and do not talk to anyone, you can stay behind your screen. "