How do u feel about self help checkouts?

I hate them. Ive had good experiences with them and bad experiences with them. Never had a bad experience with a cashier. They are there so the company doesnt have to hire as many employees...saving money which means higher profits. ....it also means people lose jobs. Obviously, the company is not going to simply move the person that was a cashier to another position ....that defeats the whole purpose of saving money by not hiring someone. Are there other reasons a company may want them? Sure but they still cost jobs for people (no, I am not one of them that lost a job...simply one that can see it).

We had one grocery store chain completely replace every human cashier with self checkout stations at every location they had...quite a few.....again a lot of jobs lost (no discount given for the work I now need to do nor for all the money the company saved). I stopped using that store and went somewhere else. Apparently, a lot of others did the same. The chain must have seen the drop in sales....6 months later they had put humans back in.....but using the same self checkout staions. Now you have the cashier standing next to you using the self checkout rather than being across from you at their register. Its a bit odd, but at least people are working again.

I can see a store offering a couple self checkouts for those with just a few items so they can get in/ out quickly. Just give us the option.

Thats my 5 cents.