Subj : Checking Out
To   : PHIGAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Tue May 13 2025 10:54:00

>  > Use the self-serve checkout.  You'll leave a lot
>  > quicker.

> Self checkouts take away jobs. I'm stubborn and wait for the line where they
> bag your stuff for you.

I would agree with that except that our local groceries cannot seem to get
enough *willing* help to even keep all the self checkout banks open.  So the
self-checkouts are taking jobs from people that don't exist.

There are a lot of folks working there, pushing large carts to fill orders
for delivery and drive-thru, so they are employing plenty of people... just
no one that wants to be a cashier or to man the self-check banks.

Wal-mart locally, OTOH, has people working their self-check banks, on
average about as many as would be running non-self-check lanes, if they
were open.  So no jobs lost there, either.


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