I'm normally a proponent of anything self-serve. Anytime I can be responsible for myself I'm all for it. I love the self check-out at the Stop & Shop, for instance. However, I witnessed a really bad idea this afternoon.
I went to the Angelika to see "Personal Velocity" because, well, it stars Parker. You can find my review on Always the Critic.
I bought some yummy, yummy Twizzlers and a Diet Coke. After I coughed up my $7.50 I was handed my Twizzlers and an empty cup. That's right. I had to fetch my own drink.
On the surface this might seem like a good idea. It's not. All it does is double the wait for refreshments. After you stand in the annoyingly slow line for people to get their popcorn you then have to stand in another line while people figure out what drink they want and contemplate their ice content. It literally turned out to be a twenty-minute ordeal.
Any other theaters out there have this setup?
Posted by mikewolf at December 01, 2002 08:32 PMi hate self-check out grocery stores. i really do.
Posted by: patricia on December 1, 2002 11:10 PMThe new theater at near the Galleria has that and what a mess, it is not only slow, but people spill popcorn all over and no one checks the supplies, we had to ask for lids, straws, napkins...at the price you pay for theater goodies, they ought to take it to your seat for you!
Posted by: holly on December 2, 2002 04:50 PMWhy, Pea? Now admittedly it isn't something that you should have to do for yourself but I think it's much more convienent than having the 16 year-old sk8er dude but my laundry soap on top of my bread.
Posted by: mrw on December 2, 2002 08:25 PMPersonally, I love the self-checkout. In particular, the one at KMart is really cool, because you don't have to interact with *any* human beings at all. Instead of scanning and bagging your own stuff, then paying at a centralized register, you scan, bag, then pay at a vending-machine type setup. Of course, there's always the chance you'll get stuck behind a stripper feeding 26 one-dollar bills into the machine, bill by crinkled bill. but I digress.
Posted by: K. Britt on December 2, 2002 09:38 PM