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by IshKebab 1017 days ago
Nonsense. The value proposition for consumers is that they don't have to wait in a massive queue.
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That’s far from a unique value prop for self-checkout lanes. It’s also a hard sell at stores that have or had ~8+ lanes but only two are open… sure, the self checkout is the only solution to long lines… that happens frequently here and in many cases, lines get equally long for self checkout.