{"id":141369,"date":"2023-05-15T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141369"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:17:36","slug":"im-here-all-week-tip-the-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141369","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m here all week- tip the Vending Machines!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141372 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tips-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tips-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tips-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tips-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tips.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>20% is customary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poetrooper sends us the latest chapter in our brave new world.<\/p>\n<h3>Self-checkout machines now ask for tips in latest squeeze on customers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Consumers are now requested to leave tips at self-checkout machines at some airports, bakeries, coffee shops and stadiums across the US<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emily Robertson<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consumers already contending with a squeeze on their bank accounts due to inflation are now facing more pressure as businesses introduce new tipping features at self-checkout machines.<\/p>\n<p>Companies, including airports, bakeries, coffee shops and sports stadiums, have now introduced the self-serve tipping option, where customers can leave tips including the typical 20%, despite facing minimal to no interaction with any employee, according to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/retail\/self-checkout-machines-ask-tips-latest-squeeze-customers\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is nothing more than a tax on compliant sheeple who never learned how to say &#8216;No&#8217; and these days? Not a bad play. Not bad at all.<br \/>\nHeh. Thanks, Poe.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies to Aldous Huxley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20% is customary Poetrooper sends us the latest chapter in our brave new world. Self-checkout machines &hellip; <a title=\"I&#8217;m here all week- tip the Vending Machines!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141369\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m here all week- tip the Vending Machines!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":141372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,177,406,650],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-guest-link","category-points-and-laughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}