Job: cashier

Item doesn’t scan

Customer: “That means it’s free, right?”

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Only about 4 weeks in as a cashier and I’ve heard this enough to last me a lifetime.

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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    “These Samsung appliances look nice…”

    Yes they do— and that’s all they do well. That, and break in expensive ways, often and early.

    Avoid Samsung appliances.

    Edit: I sell appliances

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      Note for those reading -

      This doesn’t apply in Europe, or large swathes of the planet. Samsung appliances are excellent.

      The US has virtually nonexistent consumer protection laws, so companies will get away with selling poor quality, because they can.

      See the Hyundai scandal. Only happened in one country, because it could

      Breathe easy, EU folks

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        Really? How can a company make terrible appliances for a single country? They’re not made domestically.

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          Less regulations means more shortcuts. Another example is Hyundai/Kia. Why do the Kiaboyz exist only in the US when Kias are sold all over the world? Because it’s only in the US where they sold cars without immobilizers because they weren’t required to.

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            You’re missing one big thing - there’s only one country that has horrendous consumer rights laws and a huge market, and 110v electric

            Well worth making models just for that one market

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          Go to Europe

          Enter shop

          Buy fridge

          Carry home

          Realise it doesn’t work because you have girly electricity

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        Even as an iPhone guy, I’ll say that their consumer electronics are just fine. Very good, even.

        But their appliances are crap. Apparently, they used to be quite good, but once they got a bug up their ass about sticking a bonkers amount of tech into them, they started cutting costs on build quality, so they just don’t last more than a few years before parts start crapping out.

        Companies like LG and GE are much better at balancing tech, quality, reliability, and price points.

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          I can’t stand “fancy” electronic appliances. I hate all the musical beeping and half the time the panels don’t even recognize my finger taps. It makes doing chores more frustrating than it already is.

          We recently bought a fixer-upper and have had to replace a bunch of old appliances. I told my husband the simpler/cheaper the appliance is, the better. Knobs over digital displays.

          The only time I like the newer digital versions is with microwave ovens.