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It was a stupid impulse buy, yes...

Aw, that's the best part. I love paying with my ridiculous smart watch that I didn't need.

For your memeing pleasure.

Echo? Sorry though, that sucks big time.

This is a meme trend I can get behind.

Real talk, a lot of keyboard environmentalists would be surprised to know how much electricity the innocent little internet uses.

The employees where I shop are underpaid and understaffed. They have to be there for the elderly, kids and differently-abled though. I'm happy to give them a break and scan my own shit. Usually they get to just stand around and talk to each other while I do, if they aren't busy, which makes me feel kind of nice.

Well, I'm a former cashier and I absolutely do it faster and better than the high school seniors they underpay at my local store. Also, I caught one kid double scanning some of my stuff once. Not sure if it was intentional or just lack of attention, but after that I definitely started using self checkout exclusively.

Former grocery store teen here. It was nice to get away from customers a little, but then again then you're stuck in a parking lot with those same customers and now you have to try and avoid getting run over.

Most self checkouts use cameras and AI where I am.

I think it's Europeans on Lemmy who apparently think the US is a political monolith and they're making some kind of point. As if any American on a site like this isn't fully aware of the problem. I doubt it, frankly. If it's an American posting it, they should probably know that already and find a more suitable platform. Kinda preaching to the choir here. The thing is, if there were an easy solution we would have found it. Again, people who really don't understand the scope of the political and cultural problem posting snide and frankly ignorant comments doesn't help anything, in my opinion.

I just read a really good article about why Tokyo, one of the biggest cities in the world, is also one of the most affordable for housing and pretty much everything else. Spoiler, they don't allow boomer nimbyism and they absolutely do allow a shitload of apartment building pretty much everywhere.