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Little_Noodles t1_j6oxw3i wrote

Reply to comment by GenXCub in ELI5: Does going through self-checkout in a store take away someone’s job? by [deleted]

It’s also worth noting that in many stores, the self checkouts aren’t actually replacing more lane space than the checkers on hand used to occupy.

In my grocery store, they removed 2 checkout lines to put in two rows of self checkout, each with 6 stations, each row headed by an employee.

I get in and out if there faster, especially with small orders, since there’s less of a bottleneck at the registers. But it’s the same number of people per lane as it was before

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GenXCub t1_j6p6ufp wrote

And on the other side of that, how many grocery stores have offered free pickup since the pandemic. That's how I do all of my shopping now. So there is a person who is putting stuff in a box for me that wouldn't have been doing that before.

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