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I have mixed feelings on these.

For a full cart, I expect a cashier or to be available.

If I have 3-5 items, I’d rather do it myself than wait.

That said, even 20-30 years ago, long before self checkout, at places like WalMart, one could wait 15-20 minutes in line. They had employees but were too cheap to have enough. They really didn’t care.

I don’t even understand how that math works. I might have kept going there if they had a few extra lowly paid cashiers around.



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