We don't use self-checkouts. Period. Ever. When standing in a long line at an

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70. I got used to using the self checkouts during the height of the pandemic.

Not that we're out of it now...but our local grocery stores refused to load reusable bags and it was incredibly disheartening to see all that plastic go out of the stores with no end in sight. I haven't gotten a plastic bag in a store for years...they're unnecessary and so wasteful.

There isn't a store in our city that isn't hiring...lines are long and waiting is sometimes unreasonable. Nobody has enough help. Maybe its low wages in some stores but most of our grocery stores here are unionized. We've been trying to hire two people at our family business for more than a year. I start people no lower than $20 per hour (everybody working for me now is at $25+) and I pay a range of full benefits depending on what employees want and need (No two people are the same) and I still can't find anyone. It isn't always low wages that are the issue.