+trybal007 They've already started down here. The CEO of Hardee's/Carl's Jr. has proposed building an entirely automated restaurant just because he doesn't want to raise his company's wages.

shrillbert Not too sure if that serious or joke from the film 'Idiocracy'.

+RainAngel111 except for when they make the software so terrible that it's impossible to use without calling an attendant over. I can run a till very quickly, but self-checkouts aren't built to run fast, they're built to bitch at you if it thinks you're stealing - and to pop up with long-form text to tell you how to do everything.

Andy Plater eh, yeah that's true, but for those of us that use the same one all the time, it gets pretty fast. You just get a good rythm up, and don't do any of those things that set the sensors going, you're good. It's kind of dumb too, I mean if I wanted to steal something I could just keep it in the shopping basket or something like that and slip it in the bag on my way out. Not like the attendant is really watching that closely.

+RainAngel111 That's the plan. Have fewer & fewer cashiers, so the line ups take longer and longer. Put a couple of staff at the self-checkout to help move them along. (Staff that could be at a register). Customer get frustrated and start using the self-checkout. So now they can close some cashier lines & layoff some more employees while you do their work for free. Tell me, where do you think your kids, grandkids, nieces & nephews are going to work in the future. Personally I refuse to use them.

@@sanoraponto7456 hmmm lets see, movie theaters, restaurants, fast food, and many more.

@@chris7285 Wake up Chris. Those are all at various stages of being automated.

Good for you. At one local store where they sometimes keep one cashier open if you insist on a cashier. And insist I do. At other times they'll have one of the cashiers put all my stuff through the machine & bag it for me. I just have put my credit card through myself...which is required in these days of Covid.

+Vallamaria The vast majority of times, that's not my experience. Could it be something about your demeanor.

@@sanoraponto7456 no it happens in my area too. I know it’s not a me problem because even when I work at these places coworkers tell me negative things like “You’re too happy at work”. I don’t even chat with them when I’m at work but they just see me interacting with customers in a cheery manner and get all Squidward/poopy faced with me. Perhaps it’s an insecurity thing? They act like they’re out working on the oil fields or something. It’s the easiest job I’ve had.

@@chris7285 At least the oil fields pay well. What does a cashier make? Minimum wage or few cents more? Regular schedule or a rotating changing 3-week schedule? Full-time if that's what you want or is almost everyone part-time? Benefits? It's boring repetitive work. Still, having said that, I rarely encounter the behaviour you or Vallamaria describe. There will always be the occasional unhappy or miserable employee. Otherwise I find that I get what I give...a greeting, a smile and a "please" or "a thank you" when appropriate.

@@sanoraponto7456 In my opinion, workers shouldn't have to put on a happy facade; especially for low-income, 9-5 jobs where the employee is at the bottom of a hierarchal power-pyramid. Having to work for a living is like being punished for being alive. Humans in this day and age live very undignified, miserable lives. In a better world, robots and machines would do all the work so that humans can do better things with their finite time.