“If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself,” as the saying goes. But when it comes to checking out at the grocery store, wrestling icon Jim Cornette wants no part of that philosophy.
Cornette
unloaded on Kroger on Sunday, blasting the grocery chain’s self-checkout system in a profane social media post.
“Hey Kroger,” he began on X, “if you’d pay your employees to ring up our groceries instead of stand there and watch us try to figure out how to do it, since we’re already paying you ridiculous prices for the shit, you wouldn’t have just lost the 12-15 grand a year I spend there. Fuck your U-Scan.”
Self-checkout is either a blessing or a curse, depending on what’s in your cart. Ten items or less? No problem. A full grocery run, however, turns customers into unpaid cashiers juggling barcodes and dealing with register errors. Heaven help you if you have coupons.
Unfortunately, the problem isn’t likely to change any time soon. Many grocery stores have slashed the number of traditional checkout lanes, forcing shoppers to choose between scanning their own items or waiting in long lines while one or two overwhelmed employees try to keep things moving.
Some retailers, like Trader Joe’s, have resisted that trend by maintaining fully staffed checkout lanes — an approach many shoppers appreciate in an era of rising prices and shrinking service.
Cornette’s rant reflects a common frustration in modern times: customers paying more for groceries while being asked to do more work themselves. Celebrity or not, even the legendary manager turned podcaster isn’t immune to the struggle of getting out of the grocery store without losing his patience.
