Our Meijer’s Store (regional grocery chain) has some self serve checkout machines. After you have scanned yours items on the machine, the machine takes your money and gives you your change.  Once it spits out your receipt, the screen will instruct you to remove your items from the machine and then thank you once you do.

What I find interesting is that if you choose the Spanish language option, it will verbally ask you to remove your items and leave.  And if you haven’t removed your items after 12 seconds, it will ask you once again. And it will continue to ask you to remove your items every 12 seconds until you have removed your items from the machine.

Does Meijer’s thinks that any one who speaks Spanish can’t read?  And, given the fact that the machine keeps asking them to leave makes me wonder if they really don’t want Hispanics hanging around the store.

I am sure that corporate has an answer.