[Brian_K_White]

I also wonder if the stores reduced staffing.

All stores have had less staff ever since self checkout was invented, and seems to have gotten even worse lately.

Let's have a big store and no staff, treat the staff you do have like shit, and then complain about shoplifting.

[qbasic_forever]

Exactly what I've seen too. It's wild seeing one employee trying to watch a dozen self checkout kiosks during an after work rush of grocery shopping.