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		gnufied on July 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replaci... I would say it is getting harder. Walmart for example I think has switched to largely self-checkout with some helpers thrown in. Other stores where had more than 3 or 4 human manned lanes, now have just 1 most of the time.

bombcar on July 22, 2023 [–]

My local Walmart often has a line waiting for the ocean of self-checkouts whilst they have two or three humanned checkouts empty.

I prefer the human ones because they have the bag carousel which is faster.

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