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The Scourge of Self-Checkout

2 pointsby ripe11 months ago

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MostlyStable11 months ago
I can't possibly be the only person who prefers self checkout. Is it perfect? No, but I vastly prefer it the usual check out procedure. It's almost always faster, I rarely have problems, and every place I've gone to still has a few queues of standard checkout available for those who really want them (and to preempt the obvious complaint: to my eyes the lines look similarly long to pre-self-checkout days. The fact that lines were so often long, and are still long in the few places that don't have self checkout, is most of the reason I prefer it in the first place).