Agree completely with the sentiments of this article. It started when I put an empty bag on the scanned-articles area, to hold items I'd just scanned, and the machine complained that I didn't scan that 'item'. Then the 'helper' arrived.<p>I shop in the place when it has humans working the registers. I'll sort the groceries by type, I'll gladly bag them as well. When the humans are gone, so's my business.
I prefer self-checkout at the grocery store because I'm able to catch pricing errors proactively in real time, not at home squinting at a cryptic receipt.<p>I no longer see any advantage to me using a traditional checkout.