VICTORY! My Local Walmart's Sellf Checkout Machines ACCEPT HALVES!

ive gotten bout 150 stopping at banks and asking they get afew every now and then around here

 

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You are incorrect. Self check out lanes serve one purpose and one purpose only; to eliminate the need for a cashier. Whether you find one in a grocery store, Walmart, or Jack In the Box (yes, even they tried it for a little while), the goal is the same. Let me ask you a question. If the self check out lane DOESN'T save Walmart money by not having to pay a cashier to do something you've volunteered to do yourself, then why would they spend the money to install them in the first place?

As for not having a person at every checkout lane, of course they don't. Why should they when there are plenty of people out there willing to cash themselves out and bag their own merchandise, receiving no discount in the process and yet eliminating a human job.

Walmart does not actually take away jobs from small stores. It has been shown time and time again through various studies that it is essentially a wash for the local economy when Walmart eats up small businesses. The only people who are really left high and dry are the owners of those businesses, not the low wage employees.

It's up to you if you want to use whatever conveniences are out there. I'm not suggesting anyone is anti-american or a bad person by using them. It IS however important to understand the implications though. Albertsons pulled all of their self checkout lanes after customer backlash. Meanwhile JC Penny is talking about eliminating ALL cashiers and putting in self checkout systems in their place. Clearly this is one hundred percent on the consumer, who will dictate with his/her wallet if these jobs worked by their neighbors and their neighbors kids matter to them at all. Over the past 25 years we answered that question when it came to ATM's and foreign automobiles. I am sure we as a society will answer this question in the same way, but I won't.....

 

Wal-Mart was signed on to the golden dollar campaign back in 1999 and promoted the golden dollars in 2000 - to the point of giving them out in change which was how I got my first one. I knew they take dollar coins and $2 bills in their machines, actually not many places DON'T take them. But halves are another story. Not too many self-checkout machines take them. My best Wal-Mart spend ever was the Series 1950 $100 bill - most people will not take those older bills without hacking at them with those counterfeit pens etc - which it wouldn't have passed anyway since the paper was different. I found a "seasoned" cashier and spent it, she just dropped it in the till like it was an everyday sight.

 

I used a self checkout one time and one time only.
Took about 30 minutes, got a standing ovation as I left.


HELP unemployment...AVOID self checkouts
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I just picked up five of them at the Credit Union whilst I cashed in all my roll search coins. I have gotten $700-750 or so of them from my various institutional finance establisments since January. One time I got 206 of them in one huge lot back this summer.

 

I just dumped off almost $30 more of my $01 in halves I got from the bank at that Walmart earlier today, just to see if I was dreaming about the machine actually accepting the first half I put in the coin slot of the self checkout (Just kidding LoL The only reason I used all of those halves was because they were all I had because I cashed in all of my money for them, and that bank also had a bunch of $2 bills I wish I could have bought, but I already mentoined that. ) Anyway, U was feeding the halves in the machine kind of fast, so I was worried that they weren't all going to register, so I slowed down on putting the rest in, and sure enough, ALL of the halves registered! GOD I LOVE WALMART!!! HA HA HA!!!

 

Thanks for the input on IKE's, Im gonna try a number of banks and see what happens.

Yes...my local walmart self checkouts do take Halves. I didn't have any deuces for it though.

 

Let me tell you one thing I heard about Ikes. While my local credit union "clains" they can NOT order Ikes, I have heard that the big banks can order $1,000 bags of Ikes "when available" I tried asking about this at one bank, I think and it was so long ago, that I don't remember what they told me, but I think the teller wasn't sure. So, try that. Its worth a shot.

Well, thanks for participating in the experiment, ocjoe949. Then I'm guessing all Walmart self checkouts likely take them (but I could be wrong).

I just tried a half in a local Meijer store, where the self checkouts usually spit out and reject halves, to see if maybe they upgaded for halves to compete with Walmart. They are changing the store around at that Meijer, and we are thinking it is to compete with the new Walmart, because they really seem to be losing business because of the new Walmart. I would like to tell them that, if possible, they should try to redo their machines to accept and possibly dispense halves and dispense $2 bills that the machines already accept. I'd also like to ask the Walmat manager, or call the world headquarters for Walmart and ask them if they could make their self checkouts also dispense halves and $2 bills as needed, even though they might not be too keen on the idea. But if they do accept the idea, maybe we'll see more halves and $2 bills in circulation, even though most people will likely hoard them as "rare collectibles" I only hope that these stores will reprogram for the redesigned "Meaningful Access" $2 bill when it comes out.

Say, does anyone know if you can have custom stickers made, like how they have "Golden Dollar" stickers for vending machines? I would love to ask the Walmart manager if I could stick a small sticker on their machines that says "This machine accepts half dollars and $2 bills" to make more people aware of this. Then maybe some few people will get them from banks.

 

i never shop at wal-mart. never, never, never. but i will try the machines at kroger next time i go. i know the cashiers at kroger accept halves, ikes, gold dollars, and $2 notes. they also don't give my funny looks when i use them. we'll see about the machine.

 

They will take the golden dollars and $2s but not halves or Ikes. The one by me has several machines that apparently have dirty discharge slots because they have change jams frequently.

 

So, Kroger's self checkouts don't accept halves either? I guess Walmart is a "one of a kind" unless other non-grocery stores, like Lowes and Home Depot accept them. Never tried it there.

O am soty of tempted to try an Ike at Walmart, but I don't want to risk jamming the machine if it does not accept Ikes. But that would be weird if it did. :rollling: If I do ytu an Ike at Walmart, I'll let you guys know the results.

 

I do NOT know of any machines that take Ikes anymore, save maybe using one in one of the older casino slot machines. My banks coin machines even have signs saying the machines don't take them. Which is good for me, because then the person who has them takes them to the teller, and the teller calls me. I have gotten several hundred of them in the past few months that way. I got five of them just yesterday and finished off another roll and another box to bury.

 

No luck, it wouldn't take 'em. I think they just recently updated the self checkout stations. Don't know if that has anything to do with the situation or not.

 

You mean your local "Walmart" self checkouts won't accept halves? You gotta be kidding me. What could be different? Perhaps a different model of machine? My local Walmart's self checkout machines are a different model from all other store I've been to, and those stores dod not accept the halves. Only Walmart did as far as I know. I haven't tried Lowes or Home Depot, becaise I rarely go there.

 

you do realize that just because it's wal-mart in one town doesn't mean it's the same wal-mart in other towns??? there are wal-marts out there that aren't 24/7. there are wal-marts out there that don't have a TLE. there are wal-marts out there that don't even have self-checkout. don't believe me?? visit the wal-mart in seminole, texas... store #626.