Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them

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I really hate this crap. Pay people to ring up and bag my groceries. Heaven knows you're charging enough for them that you should be offering me this courtesy.

Different strokes for different folks; I much prefer to quickly check myself out rather than waiting in line for someone to check my stuff out for me while dragging me into small talk and packing my bags in the most illogical way conceivable.

Meanwhile, stores all but stop manning existing checkouts, forcing everyone to line up to check out their own stuff.

Shoutout to Kroger for consistently only having one manned checkout open or two max during the busiest times forcing everyone to the self checkout line unless you want to gamble with how long the folks with the overflowing shopping carts In line at the manned checkout will take

our walmart is the same way. one lane open. sometimes two, but that's often a trainee.