There are Lots of introverts who are thankful for those self-checkouts.

That wonderful MuskBot humanitarian guy is now starting to put micro chips into people. So there will soon be no need for any checkouts at all. Big benevolent Brother MuskBot will take care of everything for us .... OUCH !!!!

You are wrong.
My Superstore put in maybe 40 of them,and I have yet to stand in a line up. Unlike the old days, where I'd go by SS and go back home as the lineups for the 8 slow and bored cashiers were easily 100 people long.
Yeah some people lost their jobs, but are lots of other ones out there

I hate them too. What I also hate is the attitude from so many stores now that somehow we’re supposed to be grateful for any little crumbs of service we get from them. There’s a smarmy little shit at a local store I go to frequently who acts like he’s above it all. Like he’s so superior and special that he shouldn’t have to do anything. He obviously hates his job and it really shows. He’s ridiculously sarcastic and gives these little snide half-smiles. I feel like smacking his stupid little curly moustache off his face every time I have the misfortune to have to deal with him. We’re all being conditioned to accept less and less from every business. Less service in stores, less money in our pockets, higher costs for everything, you name it. We’re nothing but the cogs in the machine.

I paid for my first year of university working as a cashier in the early 2000s. It was the only job I could get where I didn't have to flirt with men for tips or stay up until 2am working some nightlife job, and I got 30% off of my groceries. There was no way I could have paid for school AND food otherwise. That job gave me the experience to later get better paying jobs on campus and I even got a scholarship from the company. I will never use those disgusting machines. They're also gross and never get cleaned. They're full of everyone's random and disgusting oily fingerprints. No thanks! I'll be sticking to my cashier people! It makes me so sad to see the one staff running frantically from machine to machine in a panic. Nope nope nope.

It's a lost fight, my friend, AI, and automation/robotics, is here to stay, and you can't change the course we're on.

Historically, the job market changed slowly to suit any new technological advancements, and a new type of job could be created, but things are changing so fast, a lot of people will be out of work before the job market can evolve. So you better start asking our politicians about a Universal Basic Income policy, because things will get worse before they get better.

Next step they'll be asking us to stock the shelves. really.

same reason that goods have tripled in price over the last three years, damn self checkouts.

Agreed. And if we are forced to use a self-serve, there should be a discount. We are doing a job that the retailer should have been paying an employee for. Free labour.

I have 3 or 4 items I’m out of there in 5 min. I don’t want to wait in a long line up for that. You have a cashier on the self check that would be the same as if she’s at the till. No one is losing their jobs. BUT people should have a choice. Walmart isn’t fair for that.