A post bewailing self checkouts at the grocery store

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5. if the argument is loss of jobs

I don't think there can be much disagreement - although it's pretty clear we're in for a lot, lot more where that came from. (automation, robotics, AI)

Some of this is clearly to the good - (how many lives were saved during the Covid pandemic due to automation, diagnostics, data crunching, perhaps the web itself?). And without starting a long, and loud, argument - I think it's hard for many of us to determine just exactly where ethics and humanism pick up - and Luddism leaves off.

If the discussion is regarding efficacy and efficiency - I really have had very few issues (if any) with self scanners - and would say they generally have me out of the store faster (and with less) headache than the regular checkout line. So I have to go with a thumbs up as far as 'user experience.'