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Monster of 2024: Self-Checkout Machines Taking Over Grocery Stores
Trust me, the item IS in the damn bagging area.
We have officially nullified the “self” in “self-checkout.” Now, it’s time for a real human interaction—but the two clerks in charge of an area with 20 machines are busy helping everyone else besieged by what I would like to suggest is one of the worst technological “innovations” of the last few decades. The limited staff, theoretically, is there to ensure that you are old enough to buy wine and that you scanned that peanut butterinstead of slipping it unobtrusively into your bag. Unless you count the CCTV security footage of yourself from the worst possible angle as a perk, the most you will receive are a cascade of error messages and mounting frustration.
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