[bedhead]

I feel like this became much more acute when Starbucks jumped on the bandwagon and forced every customer to opt in/out of tipping on the POS terminal. Obviously, Starbucks is ubiquitous and a frequent purchase and for decades tens of millions of customers who were accustomed to getting coffee without tipping…and everyone was fine. Then they changed things up and shoved these tips in customers’ faces when the notion of tipping for coffee was/is strange. To this day I find it really off-putting and that annoyance has bled into pretty much every other interaction involving tipping.

[Animats]

Yes. Tipping where you stand in line to check out at a cash register has to stop.

That's not "service". The employee works for the seller.

[pierat]

> That's not "service". The employee works for the seller.

The waiter/waitress is *also* an employee for the seller. The seller in this case also makes the food.

Im either buying a good or a service. When they're combined is when you get a really bad deal. And so does the person selling the service.

[lotsofpulp]

I recall it being Clover, or whoever started those tablet point of sale systems in the early 2010s. After those arrived is when I started seeing tipping prompts everywhere.