That's not the same, in OP's case it's about the store outsourcing the work onto the customer while cutting labor costs so some rich fuck can get slightly richer, while not littering is a matter of basic social responsibility, not a labor situation.

A non issue. You'll often have to wait anyway.

At self checkout, I pack while I scan, and then I have control over the order of scanning and packing.

It does suck that places are opting to have self checkout in exclusion to checkout lanes, but for the people that don't like self checkout just don't use it when you have the choice.

Support UBI, then meaningless jobs don't matter.

Thanks for your kind message. Fear of embarrassment is really something that holds us back

I am surprised about how many people prefer self checkout. Since AI is taboo to use but replacing a worker with self checkout is okay. Kind of a weird dynamic on the platform.

Self checkout
AI

Seems pretty clear to me... There's no LLM involved in self-checkout (not yet at least... ugh).

Short to no line

Not having to interact with another human

Do what, drag a barcode over a flat surface and put an item in a bag? Oh no.

I'll do that all day if it means I don't need to interact with anyone.

You could probably do it if you never plan on entering that store ever again.

Cashiers are fast.

Not always

Yeah... Or if not, just ring it up as the cheaper version of the same (or similar) vegetable. Pro-tip.

self-chackout is often faster. Also, earier to shoplift.

The Walmart ones apparently have some manner of AI/neural net/deep learning image processing going on to attempt to catch people stealing stuff at the checkouts.

Somehow they still don't support contactless payments for some reason, though, so that's neat.

Here you need to use your receipt to get out, and there's (pretty infrequent) checks. Like once every 10th time they'll randomly scan five items

They also did that, still higher rate of theft according to them

Tell me the OP is from the US without telling me they're from the US.

Countries I have visited, I never see a self checkout. Not sure if that is the norm.

When tap-to-pay became a thing, Walmart went all in on building their own payment system instead, because Apple Pay and Google Pay both get a portion of the credit card transaction fees.

By pushing everyone through Walmart Pay, THEY get that portion, and can collect interest on any cash back stored in the customers account (just like Starbucks).

Of course, anyone who just wants to use the nfc on their credit card gets fucked over

Too bad, most larger stores here have them, I love it. Shopping is so quick this way, every thing is already in the bag when you leave, and you just tap your card to pay, and leave by scanning a barcode on your receipt.

Edit: here being Sweden

I currently work in retail, please just tell me what you want, pay for it, and GTFO. I have significantly more important tasks to do than chit chat.