Touchscreens for everything, it's supposed to be so new and modern and easy, the peak of technology, they're even in cars, taking your focus away from the road to make sure you push the correct place on the screen.

I think they're just plain stupid and I'm not even blind

It's made even worse because of COVID and the fact that some stores don't even have checkout lines now. At least, where I live that happens sometimes. Ugh.

Some of them I have found are borderline usable if you figure out where the buttons are, but it's crap. Physical buttons please!

I've tried to use these and have a very hard to impossible time with them, too. Not sure what the future holds but I hope they switch to some system that involves smartphones and a store app instead—would probably be cheaper than buying those self checkout machines anyway.

Yes, I had a thread about this.

I don't believe this is a case of "discrimination," but rather, a case of lacking implemented technology.

Only a very small percentage of the population are blind or visually impaired. So when these self-checkouts were 'born' for lack of a better word, they simply didn't make them accessible. It's not because they didn't want to, it's just so expensive, and so much more technology has to go into teach terminal. Software. AND hardware. How to make this machine accessible with tactile input for the blind? How to make it "TALK," yet remain private enough for the user? Not everyone wants to hear that a blind person is buying say, bananas and condoms, or tampons and tomatoes. Just saying.

Think about it. Think about how damn long it took them to make ATM machine accessible. And still, you probably find a lot of them that are not user friendly for us.

However, I agree. These self-checkouts should be made for us too. How fun it would be to scan our items and bag our own stuff, to have the ability to do that. That would be great! One day, it will come.

What I really would love to be able to try are one of Amazon's stores, where there are NO checkouts at all. You just walk in, and somehow, the store knows what you've got in your cart, and when you walk out, it bills you for that stuff automatically. There are none of these stores where I live. Probably won't be in my lifetime either. But how cool would that be?!!

In the meantime, why not do some pro-active? How about writing a letter to the store where you want those self checkouts to be user friendly for us blind folks? These companies might not realize there is such a demand. They won't know if you don't write to them. Lobby for those self checkouts! Get in touch with the higher-ups in the corporation. LET THEM KNOW!! It's the best you can do right now. Give them something to think about! Tell them, what if their son or daughter was blind, wouldn't they want that technology and opportunity there for them? You bet they would!

Get to crackin', grasshopper!

I've been carded enough times now for buying chicken that I tend to avoid them if I'm shopping alone.

The ones I use are annoying even unrelated to accessibility. They keep thinking I forgot to scan items I did scan and all kinds of nonsense. lol. Yesterday I scanned bananas, put them on the scale, it told the price, then when i took them off the thing scanned them again. lol.

I absolutely avoid them due to their problems and errors. 90% of the time there is an issue where a human needs to assist me which isn't vision related.

If the weight of the items are incorrect when bagging, it causes problems too.

Many times I have just walked away from them in the middle of checking out to walk over to a human.

Here here! I feel privileged to currently just be legally blind for now

I’m honestly surprised self-checkout is still a thing. Multiple reports have been published showing they actually increase losses as people don’t select the correct representation of what they are buying. Even in Amazon stores there are issues where you are charged for every item you take off the shelf even if you put them back so you end up having to use a human to checkout.