[Proud2BeRight]

I prefer self checkout.

Two less people touching my groceries.
Almost never a wait.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Two less people touching my groceries.

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Two less people WHO HANDLE MONEY touching your groceries!!

Besides. It's not like they're obviously hired for their sparkling personalities.

Grocery checkout people seem the equivalent of flight attendants. Droll robots whose position would have once been held by someone hired for their ability to be nice. Now an entitlement job, staffed by dour, union flunkies.