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

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I see massive benefits from being able to get out of the store quickly when I am done instead of getting stuck behind some old person with a ton of coupons to argue about.

It helps that they sorted out the oversensitive weight checking and still staff a couple of lanes when it is busy so people have a choice.

Self checkout is often not the quick option for me. Accidental double scans, coupons, random tests all requiring assistance who is already occupied make waiting behind an old person a more consistent experience.

I live in the UK now, human cashiers are so slow here that even the worst self checkout is leagues better.

I mean absolutely FUCK people who are old and are so annoyingly poor they need to try to save 60ยข on food: get the fuck out of the way, am I right?

Take a chill pill.

Being poor and using coupons is fine. Taking a long time arguing about coupons is not the same thing.

you can be annoyed about something someone is doing without making some personal judgement about that someone

if my train is late because the train driver had a heart attack im aware that its not the drivers fault, but im still not going to be thrilled about my luck