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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • No, this is wrong in my experience. The store would only staff as many lanes as needed to keep the lines short enough that people wouldn’t complain. So, there was ALWAYS a line of at least three people. That was policy, not a limitation of the number of lanes.

    The self-checkout machines are always open, so if you go during any time except the busiest, there is no wait. Self-checkout, in my experience, has been faster, and it’s not an illusion. I shop in the early morning, and there is never a wait for a machine, I just walk right up and start scanning. Before self-checkout, even in the early morning, when they’d only have two lanes open, there was still a wait.

    Self-checkout did NOT create the problem of waiting, store policy did.



  • I think it’s only a matter of time before these things are ubiquitous. Once they find their “killer app”, whatever it is, people will make excuses for any failings. We’ll fall back to, “everyone is doing it, and privacy has been dead for a long time, that’s nothing new.” In other words, the same excuses we’ve always used to justify whatever terrible thing it is we want to do.

    The people who continue to reject them and refuse to wear them will be marginalized and laughed at. I suppose by the time this happens, “Gen Z” will be the new “boomer”?

    MMW.