[fatnotlazy]

Some years ago, during welfare reform, one of our local supermarket chains decided to do its civic duty and hire a number of former welfare recipients to work as cashiers. Didn't work out too well. Some didn't show up for work, or they were busy gossiping and fooling around when they were supposed to be working.

Eventually, one by one most of those former welfare recipients were let go. The stores replaced them with self-serve checkout stations. The store where I shop has 14 cashier stations. Nine are self-serve and at the most, only two of the remaining stations are manned by warm bodies.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Nine are self-serve and at the most, only two of the remaining stations are manned by warm bodies. ***

I HATE self serve checkouts! I have had nothing but bad experiences with them! Our local WM put them in a few years back, then pulled them out. Now I see some are back again.

Now Home Depot has them and I now hate shopping there!