There are zero cashiers at the Lowe’s near my house. It’s all self checkout. I have no choice, so now I go to ACE Hardware. It’s a bit further, and a little more expensive, but I know the manager and all the kids working there after only a couple of months. Market Capitalism. I still hope self checkout goes away. I liked talking to the cashiers.
Okay, that is wrong at Lowe’s. But there should be both types, especially at the big stores. I have a Tractor Supply near buy, and they only have cashiers, and the lines are always long and slow, and they always want your phone number. Rather nosey.
I don’t want some employee knowing what I buy, and I get to bag things myself in the proper category I use for unloading at home.
I hate it when people take up the cashiers time and the cost of them by engaging them in conversation that interrupts the flow. Multiply that time by however people are in line behind, and you get the amount of other customers’ time and patience you are wasting.