Capitalists do not understand you are paying people not so they do work, but so they don't steal your shit. This is like psychopathic behavior 101: pay half the population to kill the other half so neither of them go after you.

Spending 10 minutes looking for “sweet potato” in the alphabetical selection screen, only to not do it fast enough and get yelled at by a robot while the store has 10 closed registers and everyone on line is giving me dirty looks.

No discount

Having a couple staff to help elderly, etc should be the norm.

However the problem is ppl aren't getting those other jobs, so the robot till just allows for layoffs.

Im going to be real i would be very tempted to walk out with my shit at that point

Nope. I prefer them too because it’s easier to steal from corps.

You still have to scan stuff, but 500g of potatoes is cheaper than 500g of cheese. Just match the weights and give yourself a discount.

you're doing work for free and it should bother you

Of the three stores near me, all of them have switched over the years from having most of the checkout stations staffed with someone, to having 0-2 and forcing everyone to go to the tiny self checkout stations instead

Edit Also the stations always yell at me and call the staff for doing it wrong somehow

Agreed, way more efficient and convenient. Where I live customers always bag their own groceries anyway so the only difference is taking 2 seconds to run it through a scanner before putting it in your bag and you never have to stand in line for them or anything. Like I couldn't care less if the convenience store isn't giving me great customer service I just wanna grab what I want and get out asap.

I'm on your side on this. Usually when I'm grocery shopping it's at the end of a long day, and I just don't want to deal with other people in any capacity at that point.

No awkward small talk

Oh god so much this. Especially from other people in line. There's something about my face that seems to invite conversations from strangers. I have no idea what it is. And it's always the last thing I have any interest in doing. Especially when they're offering recipe advice. Self checkouts are a godsend.

I always pocket things in aisles without cameras, all of the surveillance at checkout is too sketch.

Me: "Every time your machine stops my self checkout transaction because I moved my shopping bag too close to the cameras I will 'forget' to pay for one item."

Company:

Me:

I wish didn't rely upon cashiers to be their emotional punching bags, that said.

tbh I just really like not having to talk to someone