Reminds me of this Bill Burr clip.

"You know what I hate about these corporate chains? You go in there you're paying for a business, they make you like do half the job now. I don't get it. Like I walk in there,

- Hey, lemme get a turkey sandwich. Lettuce, tomato, on rye, with mayonnaise.

The guy behind the counter's like,

- All right, turkey sandwich, lettuce, tomato, on rye.

- And mayonnaise.

- Oh, the mayonnaise is, uuh, right over there.

- Really? Why don't you, UUH, fucking GO OVER THERE and, UUH, put it on my sandwich?"

(Yeah I just wrote that out. Why? Fuck you I don't have to explain myself to you.)

Yes but you often have to wait to get to the cashier

Australia also.

At the larger chains they're pretty good now.

Its rare you need assistance and there's always someone hovering around.

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That's not the same, in OP's case you're doing the business’s job for free so some rich fuck can get richer by fucking over both the workers and the customers, while in the other case not littering is basic social responsibility, not labor substitution.

Well then I have some very good news to you about your future.

Look, I don't know where you live, your standards, or your money situation, so it's a tricky ask. For me I drink the cheapest shit because I drink a lot of it, but I recently went to Laos, and they had a beer, like basically the only beer they have, called Beerlao, which is partly made with rice, and it's fucking FANTASTIC.

If you can find that shit on the shelves, try it out. Though tariffs just hit Laos exports with 50% so, my advice stands- buy the cheapest shit possible and drink a lot of it because what is about to unfold in the world will require you to be drunk or dead to endure it.

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.