Nobody likes self-checkouts

Tell that to my local Walmart. Every time I grocery shop there, there are lines down the aisle for the self-checkout. Meanwhile, I walk past the self-checkout and jump into a regular checkout line with maybe one person in front of me.

I remember when self-checkout first became a thing and people complained that it was corporations' way of cutting jobs and understaffing stores to save a buck. People were very anti-self-checkout.

But force people to use it enough and they eventually adapt. Especially the younger generations who don't want to deal with other people. They'll willingly stand in line for half an hour if it means they don't have to give a simple greeting to an employee at the register.

I will say, one of the positives I've seen to the self-checkout are all the people who use it as an excuse to hurt large corporations. Customers aren't "stealing products," they're just not trained well enough to notice when a product doesn't ring up correctly. I'm kind of sad to see that this practice of "undertrained customers" hasn't hurt businesses enough that they've given up on the self-checkout yet.

Me personally, I just avoid them altogether. Why wait in long lines and go through the work of ringing myself up one item at a time when I can just dump my cart onto a conveyor belt and swipe a card? It only costs me a very brief "hello" to another human being to skip all that extra work, and it keeps more positions for employees available.