procrastitron

I don’t buy into the claim that self checkout is to save the grocery store money. They still need to have cashiers on staff and from what I’ve seen they all seem to have the same number of cashiers they did beforehand.

At the very least, I wouldn’t assume it saves money unless I saw some solid evidence to back that up.

Instead, I suspect the real reason is that self checkout can better handle large surges in the number of people trying to check out at the same time.