MLMS will make RELATIVES and FRIENDS to hate you. for nothing. Every time they see your number they will not answer and try to avoid meeting you. You become a pariah. It is not worth it 🤣🤣
One of the biggest things I hate about self checkouts (Walmart, I'm looking at you) is that once you have checked out, there is an angry Karen at the door that wants to look at your receipt and go through your bags to make sure you didn't steal something. I'm sorry, but if you trusted me to be a free cashier, then you gotta trust me to walk out the door unless you have reasonable suspicion. I always decline and keep walking, and my basis for this is simple: Once I exchanged the money at the register, the product ownership transferred to ME. People who aren't law enforcement with a search warrant in hand don't get to search me or the things I own. And for those of you who defend these search tactics: the stores wouldn't have to worry about this if they had a person check me out.
also--- while a company may advise or place "receipt checkers" a store employee can not legally force you to show receipt and in most cases the companies themselves tell their employees that they shouldn't/can't force a customer to show receipt. Even if an employee sees you shoplifting they are trained to not accuse but simply ask if you would like to purchase and not pursue someone who is seen leaving with unpaid items. The only way for you to persecuted for the crime is if there is evidence that the store will supply to law enforcement who will then take action.
In Aussie land, we can search the person, but as a supermarket employee... I don't like checking people's stuff like this, but i need the job. Thankfully most people show you without asking, but I do wonder about the people that blow up and make a huge scene when you ask.
the overseer job really seems to suck. Gotta solve 8 problem terminals and coupons etc and then u got ppl trying to steal. They often seem real stressed. I hope they get paid more.
It's good for people that has a few items and it's awesome for that reason. But people that have carts full as fuck will clog up the self checkout line and its just annoy. And its never every once and a while , it's a lot of people every day.
heh learned helplessness. seems everyone else is making it through OK - also it USED to be that way with the "weight" issues but most stores seem to have resolved those issue
Nobody talks about ultra processed packaged food. It wreaks havoc on our health and the trash it generates is unbelievable. Another thing nobody talks about is all the junk that is sitting in our garages to the point that we are parking our cars on the driveway because there is no room in the garages.
Right? I keep saying this about garages. I finally have a home with a garage as of 7 years ago and there’s no way I wouldn’t park my car in there! I love having a garage!
It's still like that at some places in my state (WA). There are lanes for self serve, and lanes for "full service" where you pay someone 10-20 cents extra per gallon to pump your gas and offer to wash your windows.
Self checkouts are a god-send for me with my social anxiety and schizophrenia. I already go to the store as little as possible, I would be going even less if I had to interact with more people. I would rather not eat for a few days than have to go through the work of interaction some days.
Me too. I love them. Just thrown things and in the bag and go. The so called monitor is being called over to help at other registers and she's playing on her phone too. I keep forgetting these machines are there to save the store money. Oh well.
A lot is. But, on one of these issues namely plastic….. I care about biodegradability mainly. That is why cloth is preferable. And now people are working on biodegradable plastics. I do not think we will stop using plastics but we should get biodegradable ones.
Well it seems some of the people who like to boast about having such a terrific work ethic are the same people who explore every avenue trying to get rich quick and avoid actual work.
This is not necessarily a scam, but one of my biggest pet peeves is car dealerships who, for some reason, feel the need or the right to put their dealership name on the back of the car. A permanent sticker or little plaque. Why do we tolerate this? You mentioned in a few of your other videos how you don’t wear brand labels. You don’t buy their clothes to be a billboard for them. If the car dealership is going to have me driving around for the next 10 years with their name on the back of my car, then by god I want $100/month for advertising fees. Don’t accept a car with dealership advertising. Would you buy and wear a new pair of sneakers if the store had “Sneaker Barn” on the back of your new shoes?
Noticed that too - I take those damn things off as soon as I get the new car home. A heat gun and some Goo Gone usually does the trick without damaging the paint.
@@ps-yk8su Myself an Asics (only shoes) guy. Probably a bit religiously now. I'm not going around and showing my shoes to people, but not making an effort to remove the label either. I'm just buying them, because I know how their sizes work (two sizes higher than my feet. European here! :D ) and I can blindly just select it, not needed to try on.
I stopped using self service when the cost of living went crazy and the grocery corporations were making even more insane profits… I willingly stand there and line up no matter how much of a rush I’m in. I’m definitely not alone. It’s good that my area is full of Vietnamese people. They simply don’t use self service EVER. So the store has to keep the cashiers.
You definitely get it. We need to keep the cashiers. It's a job, and I don't want to be one of the people to makes that disappear for a poorer person, and yet again, make it OUR job to do for ourselves.
The plastic bag thing really gets me. Many of the things I'm buying are packaged in plastic. Bags are available for produce. But, somehow, the plastic grocery bag is the problem.
About the MLM. One time, when I used to work at the shopping center aka mall, a lady came up to me, and kept insisting we schedule an appointment for the following day at Starbucks to talk to me about a job. Actually, she didn't say Starbucks, I chose Starbucks, because she insisted that I work for her, but she also insisted she could not tell me what the job was about, so I was actually scared. I was thinking what if she wants to recruit me and kidnap me or God only knows, but I wanted to know what job. So we met at Starbucks the next day and she brought a binder and she kept saying that, that for everytime I would simply recommend a product to someone else, I would get 10 cents or something, I don't remember anymore, but it was something so not worth it, I ended up staying at my current job instead.
I know a guy and he said "I help people make money and start a business. They just have to do the work." As soon as he said that, I blocked him. He does not have a legitimate business and only post pictures of him going on trips with his other fellow scammers and giving wack ass inspirational speeches.
I recall having a casual convo at work (reg. job), where the topic of MLMs came up. I also recall referring to one such as "Scamway". Well, one of my colleagues lost his shit at that; going on a diatribe of how this MLM provided for him and his family. My only comeback was to ask why he's still working a regular job.
I had a coworker that picked me for a "fantastic opportunity" and took me to lunch to talk about it. She was very flattering and was sure that I would make tons of money but I did have to make an investment. I asked her what the opportunity was and she would not tell me. I told her I couldn't invest in something I knew nothing about. I'm sure it was a pyramid scheme.
I had a classmate (i knew him but not close at all) from about 10 years ago (or more) pull this crap on me when he saw me at the grocery store. He walks up "Oh long time no see, blah blah blah" then he jumps straight into his "elevator speech" of how successful he has been after graduation. And he goes into, "hey come to this seminar" that's midweek, at noon, and far away. So i tell him that I'd be at work at that time, and he says "well think about it". After that he Facebook messaged me two more times about this B.S. LOL
@@rammbostein that reminds me of Amway or Herbalife business presentation in college when someone explained to us that we don't make money but we earn points.
You know, when I was 19 I was at a gas station and an older lady complimented my bag. We got to talking and I told her I had just moved into my first apartment down the street, and she told me that she had some connections with a really good organization and wanted to meet me for lunch sometime to talk about it. Being young and naïve I was intrigued and got her number. Luckily my boyfriend at the time was more street smart than myself and told me that it could be a human trafficking stint, so I never contacted her. But reading your comment, I wonder if it might have just been an mlm scheme.
Remember when large grocery stores used to have a 1 to 10 item Express Lane? Different stores had different ranges like 1 to 6 items, 1 to 8 items, etc. They have all but disappeared now!
I agree with most of what you have said in this series. It makes me sad that self checkout is becoming the norm. For many people, seniors especially, self checkout is a burden. Vision and dexterity issues can make it a very slow and physically difficult process. That kind 30 second interaction with the cashier can be the only human connection for some. My 80 year old parents went into town daily for 1 or 2 items just for that interaction. They lived far from family. Everyone needs human connection, even young people. One or 2 self checkout lanes for someone in a hurry is fine, but I wish the bulk of lanes had cashiers. I will always choose the cashier line. The self serve lines should discount the items for your work service checking out.
I loathe Self Checkouts and have used them only a couple of times in "almost emergency" situations. One small city grocery store I know has ONLY self checkouts, but if you stand there looking lost a Kleezantsun will come along and help you. I will gladly wait until a cashier is free and enjoy the small amount of interaction I have with the Cashiers or with shoppers standing beside me that I might say something to.
I work as a cashier and some of the tills were self check out. The items should not have a discount for 'self serve', rather they should have a SURCHARGE because of the mess people create trying to process their own sale. Hardly anyone gets through an order without mucking it up somehow. Not to mention all those coupons, price matches, rain checks and other over-rides. Just the plain scanning and typing in PLU they mess up.
lets not pretend self checkout isint awesome for alot of people such as myself. i can get in and get out in less then 3 minutes. in the old days it would take me 10 minutes to wait in line. obviously its terrible for people who have an entire shopping kart but for peeps like me who shop small its great. for the larger orders i just do a pu order which is even better. i dont even have to go in. and if youre using a cashier at a grocery store cause youre lonely you have mental issues and should seek out professional help.
I sincerely appreciate the cashiers in the full service checkout. They have had training to know how to handle all the issues that may come up during a checkout. I will always stand in the full service line for that expertise. Customers should not be expected to just know how to be a cashier.
@@l.5832 That sounds like a grocery store checkout. I HATE using the self checkout at the grocery store and I avoid them. I always seem to pick the fruit that has illegible codes or has a discount coupon that needs the attendant's passcode or needs an attendant because the weight is wrong....
Agreed. This is how conversations happen. You have clearly stated your opinion and backed that up by the facts as you know them. Which means you have the proper ingredients for true success: 1) You're HUNGRY for knowledge. 2) You're HUMBLE enough to not assume you already know. 3) You seem HONEST enough to course correct as needed. I say this as a 50yo truth-seeker (not crazy conspiracy type, though I do love a good conspiracy theory) I welcome you to the incredible journey 🧡 you're only beginning to see the situation. Never stop questioning everything and everyone you know. Any of my friends or even casual acquaintances would tell you my personal motto is: "Everything on this planet is a scam! Prove me wrong." I'm still waiting...😂
THANK YOU for pointing out the plastic bag SCAM!!! so TRUE!! Those bags are perfect for bathroom, bedroom, and home office small garbage pales. They are also the go-to for cleaning up pet accidents.
But that’s really not wasting the plastic bag, that’s just repurposing it for something else. I think the problem before when stores were giving out bags without any regard A lot of people were throwing them away. If you have to pay for them or if you are reusing them, it’s still less wasteful than just throwing them all in the garbage can after you unload your groceries like People used to do for many many years.
Plastic bags take 400 years to decompose, and when they do they turn into micro plastics. You, me, and everybody else literally have plastic inside our bodies because the micro plastics are so pervasive in our environment that we eat and drink them. The only way to stop it is to stop using plastic. Especially for crappy plastic bags. Reusing it once as a trash bag still doesn’t justify it.
Yes! It’s insulting to have someone who hasn’t bothered to ask you how you’re doing or so much as sent you a fb message suddenly want to be your best friend and join them in peddling products!
Personally I don’t believe for a second that the savings being made by retailers etc will ever be passed on. I do think this puts people out of work and I do think the greed of the corporates is worse than I’ve ever seen. I avoid the self service.
They are trying to remove the physical store yet charge you more. It’s like the game industry, they want you to buy digital, at an inflated price. So the product has “value”, until you buy it, then there’s no value without the subscription/device to cook with. It is a slippery upward slope, no savings passed on.
they are not saving money, they are actually increasing their theft losses. Self checkout is really easy to steal from and fool. Many grocery stores are losing tons of money because they assume customers are being honest.
It isn't about savings it is about not being able to find employees willing to put up with unpleasant customers. This is the same reason you can't get an actual person on a telephone customer service line. No one can or should have to handle the abuse.
I'm old enough to remember how many people were put out of work when self service fuel stations appeared. Yes, it causes a huge amount of harm when machines take over jobs, and less than 10% of new jobs are created when that happens.
You assume that people who did one type of job couldn't possibly do anything else, which is a poor assumption. The logic of what you're saying is, for example, that farms should never have been mechanized, because it "displaced jobs". In fact, it made farms immensely more productive, which is a good thing. So it is with machines in general. We would be immensely poorer if your way of thinking was prevalent.
@@RobertR3750 Automation is not all bad. The PROBLEM is that jobs are being automated left and right, and NOT ENOUGH are being created to support those who are displaced and forced back into an already competetive job market.
@@zykzi Meh. People have been claiming that since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It's bogus. Have you even looked at recent unemployment stats?
How many people were using the job at the gas station pumping gas to pay their bills and live on? This might be a situation where people need to try to find something a little better for themselves if they’re relying on that as a career. That’s the kind of job for a teenager.
But that has been the way of it since humans started hanging out together in communities, towns, then larger settlements. You wouldn’t have half the comforts you take for granted now if this very process wasn’t in effect. I am not trying to say that all progress is “good” or that the direction humanity has gone in is the best one, but we are always going to be in a state of change.
What I like about self-checkout is that I can take all my time bagging up my groceries without the pressure of customers behind me. I like that I don't have to wait and that I can take it slow :)
@@LokiSherryExactly! I much prefer self-checkout because I can pack my groceries based upon how I’m going to carry them. I climb 2 flights of stairs, and the baggers at my market don’t understand the concept of splitting the load? They put ALL the heaviest shit in one bag making it impossible to carry. They also just cram stuff together, and I’ve definitely had broken eggs and ruined pastry because of their lack of effort.
I have made SO many people angry exposing MLMs. I don't regret a single one. I am seeing 4/5 of your scam videos and may have missed it but one thing I would definitely include is the funeral industry! It's such a big scam and predatory toward people experiencing grief and trauma. It makes me sick. A lot of things in that industry to expose but just 1 for example would be coffin liners that are no more important than a trash bag and cost literally hundreds of dollars. Caitlin Doughty on RUclips did several videos on this too and I think it does sort of fit in with the religion scam but it's enough for its own mention. Great videos btw!
Stores complain about their massive jump in uncontrollable shoplifting, but they also trust every random person to do an efficient and complete job remembering to scan every item in the self checkout. A self checkout where there is now no logical reason for customers to even bother moving items from the cart to the bagging area scale, because there are no bags. I wonder if there is some connection, there.
I'm 45yo and I *looove* self checkout HOWEVER am also 100% with you that I wish there was an automatic discount added(or credit given) to anyone who opts for it because YES WE ARE DOING AN EMPLOYEES JOB FOR THEM and SHOULD BENEFIT (instead of just it being quicker).
Self checkout is a new thing in our local supermarkets (I don't live in the US or Canada). Yesterday there were no cashiers and self checkout was the only option. It was ridiculously slow. An elderly customer yelled at the shop assistants and said it was a scam to make customers work and he would never come back to a place with such a cr...ppy service. Elderly customers with poor vision etc. sometimes need to rely on other customers for help. It's a shame.
I don’t know. I get the portable self scanner so I just scan items, put them in my bags and then scan at the checkout and pay. It’s so quick and less work for me than putting it in the trolley, taking it out of the trolley to put it on the conveyor belt, taking it back off the thing and bagging it. They should pay me to use the standard checkout if anything.
it's a matter of minutes and technically 'time is money' so you kind of get your discount through that alone.... If they gave a monetary incentive it might just clog the self-checkout BECAUSE people want that discount or credit and then it'd take longer and it might not necessarily make up for it. I'd rather get out of the store quickly (and bagging my own stuff doesn't bother me, I come from a country where that's the standard), that's all I need. I only go to cashiers if I have a coupon so I don't end up holding up the self-checkout in case it needs assistant approval.
but at the same time, the people pissed of by this should by all means continue wasting their money on stupid shit.. they are the ones who keep the economy afloat so that the ones who invest their money benefit 😂
I personally hate the self checkout, they're slower than the cashier and they always have some kind of problem where you have to wait for an employee to come fix your problem. A store where I go every week has 4 checkout cash registers, and about 4 normal ones but only one is open. And while I wait in line, I'll hear several time those self checkout things say "wait for an employee " (my native language is not english, that's a rough translation). And cashiers don't want to talk, they say hello, scan your groceries, you pay, you say goodbye and leave. A lot faster than doing it yourself and also making the whole store hear what you are paying cause those self checkout things are loud.
Thank you! I am so glad someone brought it up. I have NOT found what she said to be true. I find 99% of cashiers old or young faster than self-checkout. There are always problems in self-checkout. I can't stand it.
12:11 Nicole, simply buy men's unscented bodywash. They have to sell it, because some people are allergic to scents. Scented anything is poison in my opinion.
I am totally convinced that stores are using the environmental angle and plastic shopping bag banning as a way to flip the constant cost of buying plastic bags for us back onto us! They just got sick of “losing money” that way when it would be a tiny fraction on the pile they rake in
Paying for our grocery bags is ridiculous and somehow we are still paying!! Everything we purchase is wrapped in plastic yet we are told not to use plastic bags or straws. 😂 Yes, people play along with mandates to look ‘virtuous’ or good. I wouldn’t play along with any of the bull crap so I’m always offending someone 🤣🤣
@AccordingtoNicole : Great series! If you're doing more of these, you might cover the practice of "rounding up for charity" at retail stores. IDK if that's a thing in Canada, but it's become very common in the US lately. So now people are paying extra so the company can get a tax deduction.
Self checkouts are good for some people, but not for people who struggle with memory, concentration, brain fog, dissociation, micro epilepsy etc ... or for those with anxiety of doing something wrong ...
For me at the grocery store I’m hearing the cashiers behind me scanning and beeping and idk if mine scanned or it was the one behind me and I get yelled at for not having scanned something I thought I scanned 😂 Too much noise for me to concentrate 🤦♀️ You’d think I was 90 like damn I just can’t get this right! It’s much easier at Walmart the way it is set up.
NICOLE: I do admire how You "say-what-you-mean" and You "mean-what-you-say". No b.s. just the straight goods. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from a fellow Canadian.
absolutely correct with mlms. note on garbage. do not use plastic bags for garbage. i grow most of what i eat on my 1 acre orchard/garden and have reduced purchases so much that i put out my garbage and recycling twice a year. i buy most of the food i buy in bulk so i end up with large bags for 25lb beans, legumes, grains, etc. and i use those bags for garbage. they key to garbage is watch what you buy and reduce your garbage load. i compost all bio matter so my garbage is clean and not smelly. when i put out the garbage twice a year, the can is a bit more than half full. as for shampoo, deodorant, soap, etc. i do not use them. no i do not stink. i use sodium bicarbonate for toothpaste, shampoo, body soap, toilet, sink, bathtub, dish, and window cleaner along with white vinegar. i have not purchased all these stupid cleaners for over 20yrs. all that damned plastic and now it turns out there are many nasty chemicals in all of them. just add up all the money you are spending on that and compare it to a 13lb bag of baking soda from costco. after a week of washing your body with baking soda, you will feel your skin breathe and you will only have to clean your shower once a year because there will be no buildup of soap scum, not on your skin and not on your shower. as for detox. stop putting toxins in. eat whole food. drink clean water. stay away from chemicals including plastic. as for self checkout, most stores are actually losing money right now because they lose more stock because of it. costco for example has several people at the self checkout isle of 6 registers keeping an eye on things. also, even if they did save money eventually, that would help keep prices down as well. that said, i only use them when they are open and faster to go through. since i buy most of my stuff in bulk, i do not go to stores very often, certainly less than couple times a month on average. live well 🙂
Way to go, Nicole. You are a Public Service. Letting people know how they are being screwed by companies, and being stupid enough to cooperate with those companies.
I had a friend that signed up for a half dozes or so MLM companies. I asked her why she was selling all this stuff. She wasn’t, she would pay the $100 for the startup kit( about $350 worth of goods) not sell anything and in 90 days they would drop her and she got to keep the stuff. Genius! I did it twice, never sold anything and kept about $700. worth of stuff for $200.
I know a girl who did this and sold all her stuff on ebay for significantly less than what the company charged. She made her money back and a little extra that way. Albeit, that was the only time she ever did an MLM.
Big problem I see with self checkouts, and checkouts in general, is the disparity between the scan price versus advertised price. It's difficult to do but you have to try to keep track of prices for self and normal checkout lines.
I've had my fights with the staff. :D One of them knows me now well enough if I show up she just nods and watches what I will complain about this time.
In Michigan if you go through the checkout and are over charged you have 30days to notice the discrepency. I love getting over charged because you also get up to 10 times the overcharge refunded to you if you catch it up to a $5 maximum per item. Just start scanning notice the overage, pay for it, walk over to customer service and get adjusted back down and get your $5 bucks, sometimes stuff gets very close to free.
What about stores asking for a donation to a charity when you are checking out. A few cents here and there won’t hurt me but at the end of the year the store claims a large deduction while I just throw my money away
yeah, like medicare - you "get" it when you turn 65 (in the Us), but there's a catch, you have to pay for it! all those years you paid into medicare, now you have to pay a huge monthly premium and 20% copay. I just opted out, taking my chances. Medicine as a whole is a scam.
I have never, nor will I ever use self checkout. Such a scam!; created by these greedy, insatiably money hungry, wealth hoarding multimillion, billion and trillion dollar corporate entities. As a retiree, I’m in no hurry. I’ll wait for a paid cashier. I refuse to do a business associate cashier’s job for free.😮
Totally with you on the mlms, the “detoxes” and sorta with the xero waste. Regarding the bags, not many are with you that they can only need the bags from stores for garbage. Anyone with babies or dogs needs more for diapers and poop. That said, people who have overflowing garbage cans on trash day aren’t reusing them, they’re trashing them so I’m all for making them use reusable bags or paying extra every time they shop. Plastic cups with plastic lids and straws are not hundreds of years old. In the 60’s and 70’s we used paper straws, and cups and straws were waxed paper and you didn’t get a lid. And sometimes you didn’t get a paper cup but got a glass cup or mug so you consumed in shop and there was no litter composed of plastic bags, straws, cups and lids at the side of the road or in parks. And I’m all for making everyone have to bring their own cups , straws and bags so when I go to a park or am mowing my lawn near the road I’m not seeing or having to clean other people’s garbage(OPG). And juice boxes should be outlawed. So many times in parks I see discarded juice boxes and know another entitle generation is being raised. It is also more expensive to buy juice that way than to buy a large bottle that you fill small reusable travel cups for kids to take to school for lunch or field trips. If everyone had grown up using refillable cups and bringing their own reusable straws and bags in a backpack or messenger bag, nobody would feel peeved for having to do this, it would be normal. And I’m for putting a deposit on every personal beverage container of $.50-$1.00 so that all the cans and bottles are kept and returned (this is with a plastic ban on these containers) so they can be recycled and most people would stop throwing these out the car window or leaving them along roadsides, sidewalks and parks.
You don't have to pay the pink tax for cosmetics and toiletries, just buy unscented products, the fragrance in those products are not good for you anyway because they can cause irritation, and the only thing it does is depositing fragrance on your skin, if you want to have fragrance by a dedicated perfume.
I made money off Avon, but it was back in the early '90s and I only did it around Christmas time to my co-workers in the aged care home. Back then in a small country town there weren't too many places to buy cosmetics and such. I made heaps, becoming our rural areas top seller, then pulled the pin. But that was lucky, and before online shopping existed.
Remember the trolls are always going to say negative comments when you speak truth to power. You were spot on with the insane usery with credit card interest rates and criminal banking fees.
My sister-in-law and one of my brothers ALWAYS fall hard for MLMs. I was a Mary Kay " consultant" and I almost became a seller of bags because of my sister-in-law. I never made any money from those MLMs. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
Ugh! I hate MLMs. A friend of mine got into Amway and was seriously upset when I wasn't interested in buying any of the overpriced products. Thankfully, she got over it soon enough so, we're still friends.
Same. A family member sold Amway make-up (Artistry). She had a make-up party where she gave everyone a coloring consultation and a free makeover. Me and my Mom left with a $400 order between us. Just 3 months later, the family member quit. But I'm still stuck using the overpriced make-up, which is no better than drugstore.
I had a friend that bought into Amway as a distributor for $ 2500.00 and wanted me to do the same thing. This was over 50 years ago. That is how old these pyramid schemes go.
@@ed5308One of my former friends recruited me for Amway over 30 years ago. He and his upline became very frustrated with me when I was confused about how this thing worked and when I asked questions. Red flag: If you are confused and your upline to Amway cannot explain things clearly and with patience, RUN! The final straw came when I told him I was quitting and he said to me, “I am disappointed in you.” Um, Ok. Get bent, loser! For the record: He quit shortly afterwards, too (No, we are no longer friends).
Love this series. I don't remember if you mentioned it in previous videos, but "Pet Rent" is one of the biggest scams out there. My apt complex just went under new management and not only did my rent go up but my "Pet Rent" went up by $5. So I'm paying $35/mnth for my corgi to live with me instead of $30/mnth. They already took a $300 non-refundable deposit for my pet to live with me, why add the pet rent other than to be greedy assholes?
It's for the destruction that the 300 will not even cover. You would be shocked how many just let pets pee and pop on the apartment floor. Replacing the carpet is not cheap, let alone floor boards.
@@aaronhartmann7658 That's disgusting, I can't believe some tenants would live in those conditions and destroy the apt like that. Although I did have some nightmare neighbors that were like that. They had 4 dogs in a 2 bedroom apt. and they would leave their trash outside for days. They didn't clean up their dogs' poop outside so I can imagine it was the same if they had accidents inside.
@@aaronhartmann7658 But if you've been living there for 5 years you've paid $2,400 ($300 + 12*5*$35) so far. Your pet isn't doing $420 more damage this year.
Luckily, I stopped renting right before apts started the whole "pet rent" but it still makes me angry that they charge that. Especially when you're already paying a pet deposit. They don't charge extra rent for children and kids can be just as destructive.
Please keep going with this series of scams, so true on all fronts. And I would enjoy seeing a video on the economics differences between Canada and the US, such as coupons which you covered and mortgage rates etc.
Well done, Nicole! I fell for a MLM company: mine was water filters. Dollars were piling up my eyes. I knew I'd quickly be rich and could soon retire from my day job. I was new in my area, so I passed them out to my roommate's friends, asking them to try it for a week. A week later, one couple politely informed me that they did a blindfold taste test and couldn't distinguish between the regular tap water and the "filtered" water. I was so embarrassed! I quickly collected all of them and demanded my money back (over $1,000.00) from the company. Luckily, I had put the order on my credit card and the CC company went to bat for me. HUGE lesson learned w/o losing $$$. I disagree with most of your zero waste part. I find it easy to take in my own shopping bags. But the biggest culprits are single use plastic water bottles. And laundry detergents and and its additional paraphernalia. I can fill my own gallon water bottles outside Walmart for $.25/gallon. That's much much cheaper than buying tiny bottles of water. And the poorer countries in which I've traveled have a HUGE problem because they can't bury it as easily as we do here in the States. Check out 4Oceans on Instagram. And it's hard to find products that don't come in plastic!! Instead of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, try REFUSE as the first one. One last comment on self checkout. Again at my favorite Walmart store, there was a checker at every single self checkout register! Why? Apparently, people are conveniently forgetting to ring up some of their items and are walking out with "freebies." Self checkouts may disappear sooner than later....
I think the real scam with outlawing the use of plastic bags is that now they are lining their pockets with millions of dollars. The plastic bags aren’t even illegal. We still use them. We just have to pay for them at the checkout line. It’s ridiculous and we fell for it hook line and sinker, whereas before, we used to get all those bags for free. What’s next? They will start charging us for the takeout cartons at restaurants?
When I was 19 I fell for Herbalife... I made sure to cancel my bank card in case they tried to take more money. The products are garbage anyway. This was late 90s internet where this woman who rented the home from Terminator 2 and made it the focus of her video.
I live in South Africa, and we were late to the party when it came to banning single-use plastic bags. The main advantage I could see of banning the single-use bags was the noticeable reduction in litter in public areas. People used to trow the bags away after use and they would blow up into trees or the top of fences. They would then stay their until they decomposed, which could take months.
@@sylviam6535So it’s not just about people actively littering? Those single use bags are so light that they become airborne at the slightest chance. They blow out of dumpsters, and out of landfills. Not everyone throws those bags out inside of another bag-so there are limitless opportunities for them to create an eyesore. And don’t forget the damage they do when they clog public sewage drains, waterways, and wreak havoc on marine life. The ban is absolutely necessary.
The biggest pink tax is that women’s clothing frustratingly avoids having any pockets or they have fake pockets or if they do have them they are so small you can only fit a coin in them whereas men clothing always has big nice pockets🙄
@@thetapheonixhow misogynist of you. Proving exactly my point. I am a woman who does NOT and NEVER has carried a purse. Nothing I regularly carry requires a purse, just a pocket or two. That’s the pink tax. Forcing women to buy clothes AND a purse instead of just putting functional pockets on our pants/dresses like is automatically done on mens clothing.
@@GCballer307buy unisex clothes then. It’s not sexist to say most women carry purses because most do and products are created due to supply and demand. Companies won’t create products that won’t sell and make a loss to cater to a tiny % of people.
Great video. I have known about these scams for a long time but what amazes me is how many people just don’t care or question things, and basically follow blindly. Or go the other direction and believe in wild conspiracies. Anyways thanks for the video and getting the message out! And you’re a fellow Canadian too.
I knew someone close to me who got involved with an MLM scheme when they were young. To their credit, they NEVER tried to recruit me, and I don't think they tried to recruit anyone else either. They just found a way out.
I absolutely agree, self-checkout is a game changer. I can bag at my own pace, bag my items neatly and carefully, decide how I want to pay (because sometimes I split it up over different methods) and basically have a much more relaxed time of it. I only use self-checkout, and I hope it sticks around.
I was recently watching a video where they were talking about Target closing down in NYC. They suggested that with no cashiers working, it was easier to just take things. Target said that theft was super high, and that was why they were closing that store... but didn't try bringing back cashiers. I'm sure if someone wants to take something without paying, it will be easier if there are no cashiers.
Another great video, Nicole. I haven't used plastic bags for years. I have cloth reusable bags that I bring my groceries home in. In Australia (like many countries), they have banned single use plastic bags at checkout, most people I see at the supermarket bring their own (occasionally I see someone buying the thicker plastic ones). One of our big supermarket chins has even reintroduced thick paper bags. So I think it is making a difference. Re MLM's- I wholeheartedly agree with you on every aspect. I have had friends get caught up in all kinds of companies in the past but I have pretty strong boundaries around not supporting these kinds of pyramid schemes. It has led to a few difficult conversations but thankfully now my mates realise I am not going to be pulled into supporting this kind of crap.
@@AccordingtoNicole You don't have to use a garbage bags for the small trash cans like in the bathroom or office. I literally just throw it in the bin. If the bin gets dirty I just wash it. The only garbage bags I use are for the kitchen bin, which store grocery bags aren't big enough for.
Lol this is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to foolishness…. Meanwhile everyone ordering from Amazon gets shipped a ton of plastic for whatever their buying… But people not using plastic bags is making a difference? This is programming!
California stopped plastic grocery bags 6 or 7 years ago. Here in Arizona they are planning to go “bagless” soon. I save all my grocery bags, so I have free trash bags for a while. I hated self checkouts! I still hate them BUT I use them all the time. I don’t have the mistakes that I’ve had in the past. Plus I can get out of the store faster. Yes they should program the self checkouts to deduct something for us doing the work, maybe like 3% or something.
Thank you! Can you edit and use : in the timestamps? Then they become actual links into the video. (And the creator can paste the text right into the description to automatically add chapters. Needs a 0:00 entry though.)
Sadly in my younger days I got wrapped up in a MLM. I quit when I realized the product was too expensive for the average person so my ROI was a joke. I also realized that when we were continually pushed to buy products for parties - I was at a rally and did the math on how much they made off of us. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
On my local nextdoor page, someone is selling knives. They said no purchase necessary, I'm doing this just to practice. Of course they will try to get you to guilt purchase something
Just stumbled across this today; outstanding series. Capitalism, being such a pervasive enabler of scams, deserves having the bright light of understanding shone upon all of its nooks and crannies; you are truly doing the Good Work here.
I agree with self check out, you’re acting as an unpaid employee. When self checkouts first started you often did get a discount for using them (5-10%) but that all ended after a year or so.
For me it depends. I will go to a local dollar store and use self checkout because I only get a few items at a time there and it saves me time. However, a major shopping trip at a big box store (Walmart, Costco, etc.) with numerous items should be checked out by a cashier who is getting paid to do it. They can afford to pay workers.
I refuse to go thru ANY self-checkout ever, I did not go to the supermarket/shops to work for them for free. And I love chatting to the checkout people, they are so fun.
I wish they'd eliminate the hard blister plastic packaging that envelops so many purchases and find something different. I guess it's to cut down on theft but it's the worst! There have been times I nearly couldn't get an item out without injury, and is that plastic even recyable? Hate it! As for plastic grocery bags I too used them as garbage pail liners, but plastic bags are relatively new. Paper bags were once the norm.
good point on the self checkout. They should subtract the labor costs if they want me to do a job in order to buy my food. All with cameras in my face the whole time.
My pink tax solution: - Safety razor and a lot of replacement blades. - menstruation cup & few washable period pads - washable cotton face rings (a lot of them, just throwing them in one bag and wash it at high temperature once per month) Those actually worked for me for past 5 years already. I believe it saved me quite a bit of money over time + I don’t have to worry I will run out.
I do all the same except I did laser hair removal years ago and just do one session a year to maintain my results. But I sure love my cup, I’ve had the same one for 15 years now.
Self-checkout is only good when you buy a few items. I've never seen a self-checkout line move faster than regular checout lines when they have full carts. In fact they take way longer to go through.
I meant decades, not centuries. Calm your tits. Ya know what I meant 🙄
I caught that.
I knew what you meant ;-)
All I got was "What tits?" Where?@@davidfitnesstech
amazing lol (calm your tits)
I missed it. You are good with me!!
I like your style!
MLMS will make RELATIVES and FRIENDS to hate you. for nothing. Every time they see your number they will not answer and try to avoid meeting you. You become a pariah. It is not worth it 🤣🤣
One of the biggest things I hate about self checkouts (Walmart, I'm looking at you) is that once you have checked out, there is an angry Karen at the door that wants to look at your receipt and go through your bags to make sure you didn't steal something. I'm sorry, but if you trusted me to be a free cashier, then you gotta trust me to walk out the door unless you have reasonable suspicion. I always decline and keep walking, and my basis for this is simple: Once I exchanged the money at the register, the product ownership transferred to ME. People who aren't law enforcement with a search warrant in hand don't get to search me or the things I own. And for those of you who defend these search tactics: the stores wouldn't have to worry about this if they had a person check me out.
One hundred likes.
THANK YOU!! I feel exactly the same way!!
That's Wal-Mart. In many places you forget to scan things and no one is checking, no one notices, and no one cares. So much for saving money.
also--- while a company may advise or place "receipt checkers" a store employee can not legally force you to show receipt and in most cases the companies themselves tell their employees that they shouldn't/can't force a customer to show receipt. Even if an employee sees you shoplifting they are trained to not accuse but simply ask if you would like to purchase and not pursue someone who is seen leaving with unpaid items. The only way for you to persecuted for the crime is if there is evidence that the store will supply to law enforcement who will then take action.
In Aussie land, we can search the person, but as a supermarket employee... I don't like checking people's stuff like this, but i need the job. Thankfully most people show you without asking, but I do wonder about the people that blow up and make a huge scene when you ask.
I hate self checkouts because i NEVER get through without the overseer having to come and fix something
Yeah...I always forget that the goods are weighted before the scan and I always block the self checkout device
Really !!! I am not on their payroll
the overseer job really seems to suck. Gotta solve 8 problem terminals and coupons etc and then u got ppl trying to steal. They often seem real stressed. I hope they get paid more.
It's good for people that has a few items and it's awesome for that reason. But people that have carts full as fuck will clog up the self checkout line and its just annoy. And its never every once and a while , it's a lot of people every day.
heh learned helplessness. seems everyone else is making it through OK - also it USED to be that way with the "weight" issues but most stores seem to have resolved those issue
These MLMs actually tell people to start recruiting with friends and family FIRST.
Nobody talks about ultra processed packaged food. It wreaks havoc on our health and the trash it generates is unbelievable. Another thing nobody talks about is all the junk that is sitting in our garages to the point that we are parking our cars on the driveway because there is no room in the garages.
Cars themselves are the scam. We’re effectively required to pay $10,000 a year to participate in society.
Right? I keep saying this about garages. I finally have a home with a garage as of 7 years ago and there’s no way I wouldn’t park my car in there! I love having a garage!
Anti UPF is a trend at the moment. Have a look for Chris van Tulleken.
what about all the storage units for extra stuff
Same. I love my garage. I built shelves so stuff is off the floor and I can comfortably park both vehicles.
Once upon a time, if you pumped your own gas, you paid less than if an attendant pumped it for you.
It's still like that at some places in my state (WA). There are lanes for self serve, and lanes for "full service" where you pay someone 10-20 cents extra per gallon to pump your gas and offer to wash your windows.
@@VelvetyMoon Where in WA is this? I've lived in Washington for 34 years and NEVER seen this.
I think they should bring it back. Jobs for some and for those of us that hate pumping their own gas I would gladly pay. 😆
@@christinewatson1989 it probably wasn't where but when. I'm guessing 1975
Self checkouts are a god-send for me with my social anxiety and schizophrenia. I already go to the store as little as possible, I would be going even less if I had to interact with more people. I would rather not eat for a few days than have to go through the work of interaction some days.
Self checkout is a god send for me because I just don’t beep all the items 😂
That's fair. Is it affordable to get your things delivered? I have immune issues and find that beneficial during flare ups.
I use curbside pickup. Order online and they bring it to your car. Not all stores have this option, but many big stores do.
Me too. I love them. Just thrown things and in the bag and go. The so called monitor is being called over to help at other registers and she's playing on her phone too. I keep forgetting these machines are there to save the store money. Oh well.
If you just look at people as robots, it's actually funny and entertaining to go 🤣 for me anyhow
I am so glad you brought this up. Everything seems to be a scam. From medical insurance to buying a house.
Life is a scam but what's to do?
@@thomasbarchen Life is a Ponzi scheme, yep.
Either a scam or a racket. Only a few institutions you can still have any faith in at all. The YMCA. The postal service. The public libraries.
A lot is. But, on one of these issues namely plastic….. I care about biodegradability mainly. That is why cloth is preferable. And now people are working on biodegradable plastics. I do not think we will stop using plastics but we should get biodegradable ones.
Well it seems some of the people who like to boast about having such a terrific work ethic are the same people who explore every avenue trying to get rich quick and avoid actual work.
This is not necessarily a scam, but one of my biggest pet peeves is car dealerships who, for some reason, feel the need or the right to put their dealership name on the back of the car. A permanent sticker or little plaque. Why do we tolerate this? You mentioned in a few of your other videos how you don’t wear brand labels. You don’t buy their clothes to be a billboard for them. If the car dealership is going to have me driving around for the next 10 years with their name on the back of my car, then by god I want $100/month for advertising fees. Don’t accept a car with dealership advertising. Would you buy and wear a new pair of sneakers if the store had “Sneaker Barn” on the back of your new shoes?
You can have them remove the decal, I’ve asked before leaving the lot and it got done with no hassle.
You can take it off with a hair dryer.
People actually do wear clothes to be walking billboards. Look at me, I like the Dallas Cowboys, Aerospostoe, Adidas, Nike, etc
Noticed that too - I take those damn things off as soon as I get the new car home. A heat gun and some Goo Gone usually does the trick without damaging the paint.
@@ps-yk8su Myself an Asics (only shoes) guy. Probably a bit religiously now. I'm not going around and showing my shoes to people, but not making an effort to remove the label either. I'm just buying them, because I know how their sizes work (two sizes higher than my feet. European here! :D ) and I can blindly just select it, not needed to try on.
I stopped using self service when the cost of living went crazy and the grocery corporations were making even more insane profits…
I willingly stand there and line up no matter how much of a rush I’m in. I’m definitely not alone.
It’s good that my area is full of Vietnamese people. They simply don’t use self service EVER. So the store has to keep the cashiers.
You definitely get it. We need to keep the cashiers. It's a job, and I don't want to be one of the people to makes that disappear for a poorer person, and yet again, make it OUR job to do for ourselves.
The plastic bag thing really gets me. Many of the things I'm buying are packaged in plastic. Bags are available for produce. But, somehow, the plastic grocery bag is the problem.
Between the shoplifters and the self-checkout purgatory its a wonder that stores aren't turned into giant vending machines.
They are. I've seen a video where in ever item in every isle in every row was locked to the shelf. Every. Single. One.
Thankfully, some stores in the uk are finding that self serve is more trouble than it's worth and winding back on them.
I guarantee the Food in vending machines idea isn’t far behind.
Give it 5 years
@@resistancepublishingWorks in Japan... They LOVE IT!....and soon...so will you..😡
About the MLM. One time, when I used to work at the shopping center aka mall, a lady came up to me, and kept insisting we schedule an appointment for the following day at Starbucks to talk to me about a job. Actually, she didn't say Starbucks, I chose Starbucks, because she insisted that I work for her, but she also insisted she could not tell me what the job was about, so I was actually scared. I was thinking what if she wants to recruit me and kidnap me or God only knows, but I wanted to know what job. So we met at Starbucks the next day and she brought a binder and she kept saying that, that for everytime I would simply recommend a product to someone else, I would get 10 cents or something, I don't remember anymore, but it was something so not worth it, I ended up staying at my current job instead.
I know a guy and he said "I help people make money and start a business. They just have to do the work." As soon as he said that, I blocked him. He does not have a legitimate business and only post pictures of him going on trips with his other fellow scammers and giving wack ass inspirational speeches.
I recall having a casual convo at work (reg. job), where the topic of MLMs came up. I also recall referring to one such as "Scamway". Well, one of my colleagues lost his shit at that; going on a diatribe of how this MLM provided for him and his family. My only comeback was to ask why he's still working a regular job.
😂😂😂 oh no!
I had a coworker that picked me for a "fantastic opportunity" and took me to lunch to talk about it. She was very flattering and was sure that I would make tons of money but I did have to make an investment. I asked her what the opportunity was and she would not tell me. I told her I couldn't invest in something I knew nothing about. I'm sure it was a pyramid scheme.
I dont believe in "fantastic opportunities" for regular people in capitalist mercantile world
:O
I had a classmate (i knew him but not close at all) from about 10 years ago (or more) pull this crap on me when he saw me at the grocery store. He walks up "Oh long time no see, blah blah blah" then he jumps straight into his "elevator speech" of how successful he has been after graduation. And he goes into, "hey come to this seminar" that's midweek, at noon, and far away. So i tell him that I'd be at work at that time, and he says "well think about it". After that he Facebook messaged me two more times about this B.S. LOL
@@rammbostein that reminds me of Amway or Herbalife business presentation in college when someone explained to us that we don't make money but we earn points.
You know, when I was 19 I was at a gas station and an older lady complimented my bag. We got to talking and I told her I had just moved into my first apartment down the street, and she told me that she had some connections with a really good organization and wanted to meet me for lunch sometime to talk about it. Being young and naïve I was intrigued and got her number. Luckily my boyfriend at the time was more street smart than myself and told me that it could be a human trafficking stint, so I never contacted her. But reading your comment, I wonder if it might have just been an mlm scheme.
Remember when large grocery stores used to have a 1 to 10 item Express Lane? Different stores had different ranges like 1 to 6 items, 1 to 8 items, etc. They have all but disappeared now!
I agree with most of what you have said in this series. It makes me sad that self checkout is becoming the norm. For many people, seniors especially, self checkout is a burden. Vision and dexterity issues can make it a very slow and physically difficult process. That kind 30 second interaction with the cashier can be the only human connection for some. My 80 year old parents went into town daily for 1 or 2 items just for that interaction. They lived far from family. Everyone needs human connection, even young people. One or 2 self checkout lanes for someone in a hurry is fine, but I wish the bulk of lanes had cashiers. I will always choose the cashier line. The self serve lines should discount the items for your work service checking out.
I loathe Self Checkouts and have used them only a couple of times in "almost emergency" situations. One small city grocery store I know has ONLY self checkouts, but if you stand there looking lost a Kleezantsun will come along and help you. I will gladly wait until a cashier is free and enjoy the small amount of interaction I have with the Cashiers or with shoppers standing beside me that I might say something to.
I work as a cashier and some of the tills were self check out. The items should not have a discount for 'self serve', rather they should have a SURCHARGE because of the mess people create trying to process their own sale. Hardly anyone gets through an order without mucking it up somehow. Not to mention all those coupons, price matches, rain checks and other over-rides. Just the plain scanning and typing in PLU they mess up.
lets not pretend self checkout isint awesome for alot of people such as myself. i can get in and get out in less then 3 minutes. in the old days it would take me 10 minutes to wait in line. obviously its terrible for people who have an entire shopping kart but for peeps like me who shop small its great. for the larger orders i just do a pu order which is even better. i dont even have to go in. and if youre using a cashier at a grocery store cause youre lonely you have mental issues and should seek out professional help.
I sincerely appreciate the cashiers in the full service checkout. They have had training to know how to handle all the issues that may come up during a checkout. I will always stand in the full service line for that expertise. Customers should not be expected to just know how to be a cashier.
@@l.5832 That sounds like a grocery store checkout. I HATE using the self checkout at the grocery store and I avoid them. I always seem to pick the fruit that has illegible codes or has a discount coupon that needs the attendant's passcode or needs an attendant because the weight is wrong....
When you offend someone, ya know you’re asking the right questions girlie. 😁😁
My life in a nutshell.
for sure!
Agreed. This is how conversations happen. You have clearly stated your opinion and backed that up by the facts as you know them. Which means you have the proper ingredients for true success: 1) You're HUNGRY for knowledge. 2) You're HUMBLE enough to not assume you already know. 3) You seem HONEST enough to course correct as needed. I say this as a 50yo truth-seeker (not crazy conspiracy type, though I do love a good conspiracy theory) I welcome you to the incredible journey 🧡 you're only beginning to see the situation. Never stop questioning everything and everyone you know. Any of my friends or even casual acquaintances would tell you my personal motto is: "Everything on this planet is a scam! Prove me wrong." I'm still waiting...😂
exactly, 100%!
THANK YOU for pointing out the plastic bag SCAM!!! so TRUE!! Those bags are perfect for bathroom, bedroom, and home office small garbage pales. They are also the go-to for cleaning up pet accidents.
But that’s really not wasting the plastic bag, that’s just repurposing it for something else. I think the problem before when stores were giving out bags without any regard A lot of people were throwing them away. If you have to pay for them or if you are reusing them, it’s still less wasteful than just throwing them all in the garbage can after you unload your groceries like People used to do for many many years.
Plastic bags take 400 years to decompose, and when they do they turn into micro plastics. You, me, and everybody else literally have plastic inside our bodies because the micro plastics are so pervasive in our environment that we eat and drink them. The only way to stop it is to stop using plastic. Especially for crappy plastic bags. Reusing it once as a trash bag still doesn’t justify it.
Friends don't let friends in MLMs lol
Truth!
I have something wonderful that can change your life! Have you heard of Amway? lol
Yes! It’s insulting to have someone who hasn’t bothered to ask you how you’re doing or so much as sent you a fb message suddenly want to be your best friend and join them in peddling products!
Personally I don’t believe for a second that the savings being made by retailers etc will ever be passed on. I do think this puts people out of work and I do think the greed of the corporates is worse than I’ve ever seen. I avoid the self service.
Dido. Couldn't have said it better.
They are trying to remove the physical store yet charge you more. It’s like the game industry, they want you to buy digital, at an inflated price. So the product has “value”, until you buy it, then there’s no value without the subscription/device to cook with. It is a slippery upward slope, no savings passed on.
they are not saving money, they are actually increasing their theft losses. Self checkout is really easy to steal from and fool. Many grocery stores are losing tons of money because they assume customers are being honest.
@@SaixjacketFACTS
It isn't about savings it is about not being able to find employees willing to put up with unpleasant customers. This is the same reason you can't get an actual person on a telephone customer service line. No one can or should have to handle the abuse.
I don't think we've been using plastic bags and straws for centuries
I'm old enough to remember how many people were put out of work when self service fuel stations appeared. Yes, it causes a huge amount of harm when machines take over jobs, and less than 10% of new jobs are created when that happens.
You assume that people who did one type of job couldn't possibly do anything else, which is a poor assumption. The logic of what you're saying is, for example, that farms should never have been mechanized, because it "displaced jobs". In fact, it made farms immensely more productive, which is a good thing. So it is with machines in general. We would be immensely poorer if your way of thinking was prevalent.
@@RobertR3750 Automation is not all bad. The PROBLEM is that jobs are being automated left and right, and NOT ENOUGH are being created to support those who are displaced and forced back into an already competetive job market.
@@zykzi Meh. People have been claiming that since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It's bogus. Have you even looked at recent unemployment stats?
How many people were using the job at the gas station pumping gas to pay their bills and live on? This might be a situation where people need to try to find something a little better for themselves if they’re relying on that as a career. That’s the kind of job for a teenager.
But that has been the way of it since humans started hanging out together in communities, towns, then larger settlements. You wouldn’t have half the comforts you take for granted now if this very process wasn’t in effect. I am not trying to say that all progress is “good” or that the direction humanity has gone in is the best one, but we are always going to be in a state of change.
What I like about self-checkout is that I can take all my time bagging up my groceries without the pressure of customers behind me. I like that I don't have to wait and that I can take it slow :)
I love bagging my own groceries. The cashiers will crush my bread, bruise my fruit, put cold wet items with dry goods, etc
@@LokiSherryExactly! I much prefer self-checkout because I can pack my groceries based upon how I’m going to carry them. I climb 2 flights of stairs, and the baggers at my market don’t understand the concept of splitting the load? They put ALL the heaviest shit in one bag making it impossible to carry. They also just cram stuff together, and I’ve definitely had broken eggs and ruined pastry because of their lack of effort.
In Slovenia you bag your own groceries, the cashier just scans them. 🤷🏻♀️
Not where I am. Lots of people impatiently waiting.
I don't feel this at all. I feel I'm too slow and ppl r watching and it stresses me out. 😢
I have made SO many people angry exposing MLMs. I don't regret a single one. I am seeing 4/5 of your scam videos and may have missed it but one thing I would definitely include is the funeral industry! It's such a big scam and predatory toward people experiencing grief and trauma. It makes me sick. A lot of things in that industry to expose but just 1 for example would be coffin liners that are no more important than a trash bag and cost literally hundreds of dollars. Caitlin Doughty on RUclips did several videos on this too and I think it does sort of fit in with the religion scam but it's enough for its own mention. Great videos btw!
Stores complain about their massive jump in uncontrollable shoplifting, but they also trust every random person to do an efficient and complete job remembering to scan every item in the self checkout.
A self checkout where there is now no logical reason for customers to even bother moving items from the cart to the bagging area scale, because there are no bags.
I wonder if there is some connection, there.
Our self checkout scales not letting you continue after scanned without putting the item on the scale. Or am I misreading something?
This comment!
I'm 45yo and I *looove* self checkout HOWEVER am also 100% with you that I wish there was an automatic discount added(or credit given) to anyone who opts for it because YES WE ARE DOING AN EMPLOYEES JOB FOR THEM and SHOULD BENEFIT (instead of just it being quicker).
Self checkout is a new thing in our local supermarkets (I don't live in the US or Canada). Yesterday there were no cashiers and self checkout was the only option. It was ridiculously slow. An elderly customer yelled at the shop assistants and said it was a scam to make customers work and he would never come back to a place with such a cr...ppy service. Elderly customers with poor vision etc. sometimes need to rely on other customers for help. It's a shame.
In California we get bag credits at Target.
It’s not like you do this all day long, what kind of discount do you want, 50 cents?
I don’t know. I get the portable self scanner so I just scan items, put them in my bags and then scan at the checkout and pay. It’s so quick and less work for me than putting it in the trolley, taking it out of the trolley to put it on the conveyor belt, taking it back off the thing and bagging it. They should pay me to use the standard checkout if anything.
it's a matter of minutes and technically 'time is money' so you kind of get your discount through that alone.... If they gave a monetary incentive it might just clog the self-checkout BECAUSE people want that discount or credit and then it'd take longer and it might not necessarily make up for it. I'd rather get out of the store quickly (and bagging my own stuff doesn't bother me, I come from a country where that's the standard), that's all I need. I only go to cashiers if I have a coupon so I don't end up holding up the self-checkout in case it needs assistant approval.
You're pissing off the right people. Keep up the good fight!
but at the same time, the people pissed of by this should by all means continue wasting their money on stupid shit.. they are the ones who keep the economy afloat so that the ones who invest their money benefit 😂
@@miraggg I hadn't really thought of it this way, but I must admit, what you are saying makes total sense!
They make more money from scamming people and don’t want anyone knowing the truth
I personally hate the self checkout, they're slower than the cashier and they always have some kind of problem where you have to wait for an employee to come fix your problem. A store where I go every week has 4 checkout cash registers, and about 4 normal ones but only one is open. And while I wait in line, I'll hear several time those self checkout things say "wait for an employee " (my native language is not english, that's a rough translation). And cashiers don't want to talk, they say hello, scan your groceries, you pay, you say goodbye and leave. A lot faster than doing it yourself and also making the whole store hear what you are paying cause those self checkout things are loud.
Thank you! I am so glad someone brought it up. I have NOT found what she said to be true. I find 99% of cashiers old or young faster than self-checkout. There are always problems in self-checkout. I can't stand it.
12:11 Nicole, simply buy men's unscented bodywash. They have to sell it, because some people are allergic to scents. Scented anything is poison in my opinion.
I am a man and don’t even use that. I use old school unscented ivory soap. The cheapest bar soap around and it works great. It’s unisex too.
Buy bar soap or Castille soap (to make your own bodywashes)
Problem solved.
I am totally convinced that stores are using the environmental angle and plastic shopping bag banning as a way to flip the constant cost of buying plastic bags for us back onto us! They just got sick of “losing money” that way when it would be a tiny fraction on the pile they rake in
Paying for our grocery bags is ridiculous and somehow we are still paying!! Everything we purchase is wrapped in plastic yet we are told not to use plastic bags or straws. 😂
Yes, people play along with mandates to look ‘virtuous’ or good. I wouldn’t play along with any of the bull crap so I’m always offending someone 🤣🤣
When I was a kid, paper bags were the norm...and they were FREE
They were priced in to the products you purchased.
@AccordingtoNicole : Great series! If you're doing more of these, you might cover the practice of "rounding up for charity" at retail stores. IDK if that's a thing in Canada, but it's become very common in the US lately. So now people are paying extra so the company can get a tax deduction.
Yes, it's a disgrace and I bet only a tiny proportion of it gets to the people who truly need it.
Wait, what?? That's what they're doing?? Holy cannoli, I always assume I am just donating!
You are donating to their profitability. The money goes as a charity donation in their name not yours. @@EmmaRayne
They’ve started doing that here in Italy, and I saw it at a Kaufland in Germany 😑
yeah, and since when is 19.01 rounded up to 20.00? how about rounding down. don't they even know math?
Wait!......What?.........Using plastic bags for centuries? Plastic Straws? Really?
Self checkouts are good for some people, but not for people who struggle with memory, concentration, brain fog, dissociation, micro epilepsy etc ... or for those with anxiety of doing something wrong ...
For me at the grocery store I’m hearing the cashiers behind me scanning and beeping and idk if mine scanned or it was the one behind me and I get yelled at for not having scanned something I thought I scanned 😂 Too much noise for me to concentrate 🤦♀️ You’d think I was 90 like damn I just can’t get this right! It’s much easier at Walmart the way it is set up.
NICOLE: I do admire how You "say-what-you-mean" and You "mean-what-you-say". No b.s. just the straight goods. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from a fellow Canadian.
absolutely correct with mlms.
note on garbage. do not use plastic bags for garbage. i grow most of what i eat on my 1 acre orchard/garden and have reduced purchases so much that i put out my garbage and recycling twice a year. i buy most of the food i buy in bulk so i end up with large bags for 25lb beans, legumes, grains, etc. and i use those bags for garbage. they key to garbage is watch what you buy and reduce your garbage load. i compost all bio matter so my garbage is clean and not smelly. when i put out the garbage twice a year, the can is a bit more than half full.
as for shampoo, deodorant, soap, etc. i do not use them. no i do not stink. i use sodium bicarbonate for toothpaste, shampoo, body soap, toilet, sink, bathtub, dish, and window cleaner along with white vinegar. i have not purchased all these stupid cleaners for over 20yrs. all that damned plastic and now it turns out there are many nasty chemicals in all of them. just add up all the money you are spending on that and compare it to a 13lb bag of baking soda from costco. after a week of washing your body with baking soda, you will feel your skin breathe and you will only have to clean your shower once a year because there will be no buildup of soap scum, not on your skin and not on your shower.
as for detox. stop putting toxins in. eat whole food. drink clean water. stay away from chemicals including plastic.
as for self checkout, most stores are actually losing money right now because they lose more stock because of it. costco for example has several people at the self checkout isle of 6 registers keeping an eye on things. also, even if they did save money eventually, that would help keep prices down as well. that said, i only use them when they are open and faster to go through. since i buy most of my stuff in bulk, i do not go to stores very often, certainly less than couple times a month on average.
live well 🙂
If you started your own channel, I'd probably watch it
@@frithar that is very kind. i am an old fart and not that interesting. live well 🙂
Way to go, Nicole. You are a Public Service. Letting people know how they are being screwed by companies, and being stupid enough to cooperate with those companies.
I had a friend that signed up for a half dozes or so MLM companies. I asked her why she was selling all this stuff. She wasn’t, she would pay the $100 for the startup kit( about $350 worth of goods) not sell anything and in 90 days they would drop her and she got to keep the stuff. Genius! I did it twice, never sold anything and kept about $700. worth of stuff for $200.
There is no way you come out ahead on this.
@@jerbear7952 you can come out ahead. If it’s products you would use anyway, either for yourself or as gifts. I’ve done it twice.
I know a girl who did this and sold all her stuff on ebay for significantly less than what the company charged. She made her money back and a little extra that way. Albeit, that was the only time she ever did an MLM.
It's probably worth less than those $200... You don't need MLM to sell good products.
That only makes sense if you actually need all that stuff but most of the products are stuff you don't need and the quality is terrible.
Big problem I see with self checkouts, and checkouts in general, is the disparity between the scan price versus advertised price. It's difficult to do but you have to try to keep track of prices for self and normal checkout lines.
I've had my fights with the staff. :D One of them knows me now well enough if I show up she just nods and watches what I will complain about this time.
I had no idea! Thank you, I will definitely be keeping an eye out for this
In Michigan if you go through the checkout and are over charged you have 30days to notice the discrepency. I love getting over charged because you also get up to 10 times the overcharge refunded to you if you catch it up to a $5 maximum per item. Just start scanning notice the overage, pay for it, walk over to customer service and get adjusted back down and get your $5 bucks, sometimes stuff gets very close to free.
Yup! I used those plastic bags as wastebasket liners, and to dispose of used cat litter. Now I'll have to buy bags for that.
I'm a boomer and I don't want to talk to anybody at the store, I want to get my stuff and go.
What about stores asking for a donation to a charity when you are checking out. A few cents here and there won’t hurt me but at the end of the year the store claims a large deduction while I just throw my money away
I ask them to donate to me and round down.
Goodwill is always asking for the change im like no I just donated some items in the back before coming in im like the nerve
If it even goes to where they say it is
Self checkout should include a discount.
Whenever I see a MLM, I ask if this product is so good then why don’t they sell it in stores?
Thank you for bringing all this to light.
YES tell the truth about these SCAMMERS.
Screw them all.
The next time you are forced to interact with a "lonely boomer cashier" ask them about the top 5 retirement scams that keep boomers working crap jobs.
The agony of having to talk to someone face to face instead of staring at a phone. Must be her "social anxiety".
Oh the horror to be kind to someone. Woah is you! Lol
yeah, like medicare - you "get" it when you turn 65 (in the Us), but there's a catch, you have to pay for it! all those years you paid into medicare, now you have to pay a huge monthly premium and 20% copay. I just opted out, taking my chances. Medicine as a whole is a scam.
@@Danny099 never ASSume Danny boy not a Boomer
I have never, nor will I ever use self checkout. Such a scam!; created by these greedy, insatiably money hungry, wealth hoarding multimillion, billion and trillion dollar corporate entities. As a retiree, I’m in no hurry. I’ll wait for a paid cashier. I refuse to do a business associate cashier’s job for free.😮
Totally with you on the mlms, the “detoxes” and sorta with the xero waste. Regarding the bags, not many are with you that they can only need the bags from stores for garbage. Anyone with babies or dogs needs more for diapers and poop. That said, people who have overflowing garbage cans on trash day aren’t reusing them, they’re trashing them so I’m all for making them use reusable bags or paying extra every time they shop. Plastic cups with plastic lids and straws are not hundreds of years old. In the 60’s and 70’s we used paper straws, and cups and straws were waxed paper and you didn’t get a lid. And sometimes you didn’t get a paper cup but got a glass cup or mug so you consumed in shop and there was no litter composed of plastic bags, straws, cups and lids at the side of the road or in parks. And I’m all for making everyone have to bring their own cups , straws and bags so when I go to a park or am mowing my lawn near the road I’m not seeing or having to clean other people’s garbage(OPG). And juice boxes should be outlawed. So many times in parks I see discarded juice boxes and know another entitle generation is being raised. It is also more expensive to buy juice that way than to buy a large bottle that you fill small reusable travel cups for kids to take to school for lunch or field trips. If everyone had grown up using refillable cups and bringing their own reusable straws and bags in a backpack or messenger bag, nobody would feel peeved for having to do this, it would be normal. And I’m for putting a deposit on every personal beverage container of $.50-$1.00 so that all the cans and bottles are kept and returned (this is with a plastic ban on these containers) so they can be recycled and most people would stop throwing these out the car window or leaving them along roadsides, sidewalks and parks.
You don't have to pay the pink tax for cosmetics and toiletries, just buy unscented products, the fragrance in those products are not good for you anyway because they can cause irritation, and the only thing it does is depositing fragrance on your skin, if you want to have fragrance by a dedicated perfume.
I made money off Avon, but it was back in the early '90s and I only did it around Christmas time to my co-workers in the aged care home. Back then in a small country town there weren't too many places to buy cosmetics and such. I made heaps, becoming our rural areas top seller, then pulled the pin. But that was lucky, and before online shopping existed.
You're wise beyond your years. I enjoy your Chanel so much, you are a real blessing. Thank you & keep on posting your videos.
Remember the trolls are always going to say negative comments when you speak truth to power. You were spot on with the insane usery with credit card interest rates and criminal banking fees.
My sister-in-law and one of my brothers ALWAYS fall hard for MLMs. I was a Mary Kay " consultant" and I almost became a seller of bags because of my sister-in-law. I never made any money from those MLMs. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
Self checkouts!!! 😳😱😳😱😳 the worst, especially with staff standing near you 🤷♂️
Ugh! I hate MLMs. A friend of mine got into Amway and was seriously upset when I wasn't interested in buying any of the overpriced products. Thankfully, she got over it soon enough so, we're still friends.
Same. A family member sold Amway make-up (Artistry). She had a make-up party where she gave everyone a coloring consultation and a free makeover. Me and my Mom left with a $400 order between us. Just 3 months later, the family member quit. But I'm still stuck using the overpriced make-up, which is no better than drugstore.
Yep, Amway was awful!
I like the tea tree oil melaleuca
company’s products.
I had a friend that bought into Amway as a distributor for $ 2500.00 and wanted me to do the same thing. This was over 50 years ago. That is how old these pyramid schemes go.
@@ed5308One of my former friends recruited me for Amway over 30 years ago. He and his upline became very frustrated with me when I was confused about how this thing worked and when I asked questions. Red flag: If you are confused and your upline to Amway cannot explain things clearly and with patience, RUN! The final straw came when I told him I was quitting and he said to me, “I am disappointed in you.” Um, Ok. Get bent, loser! For the record: He quit shortly afterwards, too (No, we are no longer friends).
The world needs more women who tell the truth, don't wear makeup, and think for themselves. You go girl.
Love this series. I don't remember if you mentioned it in previous videos, but "Pet Rent" is one of the biggest scams out there. My apt complex just went under new management and not only did my rent go up but my "Pet Rent" went up by $5. So I'm paying $35/mnth for my corgi to live with me instead of $30/mnth. They already took a $300 non-refundable deposit for my pet to live with me, why add the pet rent other than to be greedy assholes?
It's for the destruction that the 300 will not even cover. You would be shocked how many just let pets pee and pop on the apartment floor. Replacing the carpet is not cheap, let alone floor boards.
@@aaronhartmann7658 That's disgusting, I can't believe some tenants would live in those conditions and destroy the apt like that. Although I did have some nightmare neighbors that were like that. They had 4 dogs in a 2 bedroom apt. and they would leave their trash outside for days. They didn't clean up their dogs' poop outside so I can imagine it was the same if they had accidents inside.
Cat smell never leaves and they scratch up the doors doorframe and trim and panels around the doors
@@aaronhartmann7658 But if you've been living there for 5 years you've paid $2,400 ($300 + 12*5*$35) so far. Your pet isn't doing $420 more damage this year.
Luckily, I stopped renting right before apts started the whole "pet rent" but it still makes me angry that they charge that. Especially when you're already paying a pet deposit. They don't charge extra rent for children and kids can be just as destructive.
Walmart claims that self checkout cost them 5 billion dollars in theft losses.
Please keep going with this series of scams, so true on all fronts. And I would enjoy seeing a video on the economics differences between Canada and the US, such as coupons which you covered and mortgage rates etc.
“Shit yourself skinny” would probably, if you marketed it right, work very well as an advertising message 😅
Well done, Nicole!
I fell for a MLM company: mine was water filters. Dollars were piling up my eyes. I knew I'd quickly be rich and could soon retire from my day job. I was new in my area, so I passed them out to my roommate's friends, asking them to try it for a week. A week later, one couple politely informed me that they did a blindfold taste test and couldn't distinguish between the regular tap water and the "filtered" water. I was so embarrassed! I quickly collected all of them and demanded my money back (over $1,000.00) from the company. Luckily, I had put the order on my credit card and the CC company went to bat for me. HUGE lesson learned w/o losing $$$.
I disagree with most of your zero waste part. I find it easy to take in my own shopping bags. But the biggest culprits are single use plastic water bottles. And laundry detergents and and its additional paraphernalia. I can fill my own gallon water bottles outside Walmart for $.25/gallon. That's much much cheaper than buying tiny bottles of water. And the poorer countries in which I've traveled have a HUGE problem because they can't bury it as easily as we do here in the States. Check out 4Oceans on Instagram. And it's hard to find products that don't come in plastic!! Instead of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, try REFUSE as the first one.
One last comment on self checkout. Again at my favorite Walmart store, there was a checker at every single self checkout register! Why? Apparently, people are conveniently forgetting to ring up some of their items and are walking out with "freebies." Self checkouts may disappear sooner than later....
I think the real scam with outlawing the use of plastic bags is that now they are lining their pockets with millions of dollars. The plastic bags aren’t even illegal. We still use them. We just have to pay for them at the checkout line. It’s ridiculous and we fell for it hook line and sinker, whereas before, we used to get all those bags for free. What’s next? They will start charging us for the takeout cartons at restaurants?
@@MichelleNovaleeexactly. The real scam is how we get charged for every separate little thing now. The nickel-&-diming of America 😒
When I was 19 I fell for Herbalife... I made sure to cancel my bank card in case they tried to take more money. The products are garbage anyway. This was late 90s internet where this woman who rented the home from Terminator 2 and made it the focus of her video.
Right On!! Using a person's ignorance to make money.
KEEP EM COMING!!! Best series on the internet
I use to work for an MLM and they use to say "Pick up your check on this day or you dont get paid"
I live in South Africa, and we were late to the party when it came to banning single-use plastic bags. The main advantage I could see of banning the single-use bags was the noticeable reduction in litter in public areas. People used to trow the bags away after use and they would blow up into trees or the top of fences. They would then stay their until they decomposed, which could take months.
The problem there is people littering, not the plastic bags. I have never littered once in my life.
@@sylviam6535So it’s not just about people actively littering? Those single use bags are so light that they become airborne at the slightest chance. They blow out of dumpsters, and out of landfills. Not everyone throws those bags out inside of another bag-so there are limitless opportunities for them to create an eyesore. And don’t forget the damage they do when they clog public sewage drains, waterways, and wreak havoc on marine life. The ban is absolutely necessary.
Yeah I hate seeing plastic bags on razor and barbed wire in residential neighborhoods
Those bags are ingested by livestock and wildlife while they're grazing -- leads to their painful deaths from blockage.
When gas stations started self-service pumps, it was at a discount. Now the full service attendants and the discounts are gone.
The biggest pink tax is that women’s clothing frustratingly avoids having any pockets or they have fake pockets or if they do have them they are so small you can only fit a coin in them whereas men clothing always has big nice pockets🙄
Because women carry purses they don’t need the pockets, or you you can just us men’s clothing.
@@thetapheonixhow misogynist of you. Proving exactly my point.
I am a woman who does NOT and NEVER has carried a purse. Nothing I regularly carry requires a purse, just a pocket or two.
That’s the pink tax. Forcing women to buy clothes AND a purse instead of just putting functional pockets on our pants/dresses like is automatically done on mens clothing.
@@GCballer307 No it sexist of you, what are men’s clothing not good enough for you? Just use that.
@@GCballer307buy unisex clothes then. It’s not sexist to say most women carry purses because most do and products are created due to supply and demand. Companies won’t create products that won’t sell and make a loss to cater to a tiny % of people.
@@BlacksmithBetswho creates the supply therefore the demand?
Paper straws are like M&Ms; They melt in your mouth, not your hand.
Great video. I have known about these scams for a long time but what amazes me is how many people just don’t care or question things, and basically follow blindly. Or go the other direction and believe in wild conspiracies. Anyways thanks for the video and getting the message out! And you’re a fellow Canadian too.
I knew someone close to me who got involved with an MLM scheme when they were young. To their credit, they NEVER tried to recruit me, and I don't think they tried to recruit anyone else either. They just found a way out.
About self checkouts, i have social anxiety and will do everything in my power to avoid people. In my eyes they are a God send.loved the video.
Yeah, and people aren't judging your items in real time, because they're busy.
I absolutely agree, self-checkout is a game changer. I can bag at my own pace, bag my items neatly and carefully, decide how I want to pay (because sometimes I split it up over different methods) and basically have a much more relaxed time of it. I only use self-checkout, and I hope it sticks around.
Your honesty, is what people love hearing! Thank you.
If I go to a store with self checkout and no cashiers, I leave the cart and walk out and go some where else to shop, me and tech don't get along.
You must be older than dust.
U are 100% right . But most of the people will not even understand that or bother to think about it. And that is sad😢
I was recently watching a video where they were talking about Target closing down in NYC. They suggested that with no cashiers working, it was easier to just take things. Target said that theft was super high, and that was why they were closing that store... but didn't try bringing back cashiers. I'm sure if someone wants to take something without paying, it will be easier if there are no cashiers.
It's very hypocritical we required not use plastic bag but we buy plastic trash bags ,wow ! 😳
Another great video, Nicole. I haven't used plastic bags for years. I have cloth reusable bags that I bring my groceries home in. In Australia (like many countries), they have banned single use plastic bags at checkout, most people I see at the supermarket bring their own (occasionally I see someone buying the thicker plastic ones). One of our big supermarket chins has even reintroduced thick paper bags. So I think it is making a difference. Re MLM's- I wholeheartedly agree with you on every aspect. I have had friends get caught up in all kinds of companies in the past but I have pretty strong boundaries around not supporting these kinds of pyramid schemes. It has led to a few difficult conversations but thankfully now my mates realise I am not going to be pulled into supporting this kind of crap.
What do you use for garbage bags though?
@@AccordingtoNicole Biodegradable garbage bags. Or used condoms.
@@AccordingtoNicole You don't have to use a garbage bags for the small trash cans like in the bathroom or office. I literally just throw it in the bin. If the bin gets dirty I just wash it. The only garbage bags I use are for the kitchen bin, which store grocery bags aren't big enough for.
Lol this is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to foolishness…. Meanwhile everyone ordering from Amazon gets shipped a ton of plastic for whatever their buying… But people not using plastic bags is making a difference? This is programming!
Self-checkout is the best thing ever lol I can just checkout in 5 minutes or less and I'm done.
I use the pickup, I refuse to even go into the store anymore because they are designed to make you spend more :shrug
Great point.
Finally someone agrees with me on the plastic bag scam.
California stopped plastic grocery bags 6 or 7 years ago. Here in Arizona they are planning to go “bagless” soon. I save all my grocery bags, so I have free trash bags for a while. I hated self checkouts! I still hate them BUT I use them all the time. I don’t have the mistakes that I’ve had in the past. Plus I can get out of the store faster. Yes they should program the self checkouts to deduct something for us doing the work, maybe like 3% or something.
We still have them, just not at supermarkets
@@kirkdunn1379 yes, some restaurants, gas station, fast food places still have them, but not grocery stores, Walmarts, Target big stores.
We haven't been using plastic straws and plastic bags "for centuries and centuries earlier".
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:1.18 Multilevel marketing companies/ Pyramid scheme.
:7.11 Zero Waste movement.
:10.55 The pink tax
:13.10 Cleanses and Detoxes
:14.55 Self Checkout
Thank you!
Can you edit and use : in the timestamps?
Then they become actual links into the video. (And the creator can paste the text right into the description to automatically add chapters. Needs a 0:00 entry though.)
thank you for saving me 18 minutes
Wendy’s here in Canada went from using paper cups and plastic straws, to now using plastic cups and paper straws.
Sadly in my younger days I got wrapped up in a MLM. I quit when I realized the product was too expensive for the average person so my ROI was a joke. I also realized that when we were continually pushed to buy products for parties - I was at a rally and did the math on how much they made off of us. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
On my local nextdoor page, someone is selling knives. They said no purchase necessary, I'm doing this just to practice. Of course they will try to get you to guilt purchase something
Just stumbled across this today; outstanding series. Capitalism, being such a pervasive enabler of scams, deserves having the bright light of understanding shone upon all of its nooks and crannies; you are truly doing the Good Work here.
I agree with self check out, you’re acting as an unpaid employee. When self checkouts first started you often did get a discount for using them (5-10%) but that all ended after a year or so.
For me it depends. I will go to a local dollar store and use self checkout because I only get a few items at a time there and it saves me time. However, a major shopping trip at a big box store (Walmart, Costco, etc.) with numerous items should be checked out by a cashier who is getting paid to do it. They can afford to pay workers.
If you steal something small from self checkout every once in a while it should offset the extra profit they made from not paying a cashier.
Yeah, but God is watching.
thats ok. god aint no snitch.@@TEWMUCH
@@TEWMUCH thats ok. God aint no snitch.
@@chrism6952 yikes!
Please keep up the good work you do. I love to hear what you have to say. Thank you.
I refuse to go thru ANY self-checkout ever, I did not go to the supermarket/shops to work for them for free.
And I love chatting to the checkout people, they are so fun.
I wish they'd eliminate the hard blister plastic packaging that envelops so many purchases and find something different. I guess it's to cut down on theft but it's the worst! There have been times I nearly couldn't get an item out without injury, and is that plastic even recyable? Hate it! As for plastic grocery bags I too used them as garbage pail liners, but plastic bags are relatively new. Paper bags were once the norm.
good point on the self checkout. They should subtract the labor costs if they want me to do a job in order to buy my food. All with cameras in my face the whole time.
Nicole you are a total Rockstar! Keep Going!
I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH AND EXPANDED MY AWARENESS SO MUCH SINCE I'VE WATCHED ALL 4 PARTS OF YOUR "SCAM" VIDEOS. I'M GRATEFUL I HAVE FOUND YOUR CHANNEL.
My pink tax solution:
- Safety razor and a lot of replacement blades.
- menstruation cup & few washable period pads
- washable cotton face rings (a lot of them, just throwing them in one bag and wash it at high temperature once per month)
Those actually worked for me for past 5 years already. I believe it saved me quite a bit of money over time + I don’t have to worry I will run out.
What is a cotton face ring? I googled it but I got a bunch of rings with faces on them 😅
@@ununhexium 😅 I think they meant rounds lol
@@augustek5382 That would make sense haha thank you
I do all the same except I did laser hair removal years ago and just do one session a year to maintain my results. But I sure love my cup, I’ve had the same one for 15 years now.
I'm not using any of those products for my period 😮💨
Self-checkout is only good when you buy a few items. I've never seen a self-checkout line move faster than regular checout lines when they have full carts. In fact they take way longer to go through.