Hell no. They’re a godsend. Don’t have to interact with people and I get out of the store in way less time. And you don’t have a person standing behind you waiting for you to pack your shit.

If they made some system where you could buy booze with some sort of pre-authentication tied to whatever that approved you then that’d be perfect

You must not buy a lot of produce, gift cards or otc medicine; the self checkout is slower every time I have to buy any of these things and it’s given some companies (cvs, Walgreens) a reason to make their employees who would otherwise be working the register do other things and leave the front of the store almost completely unstaffed every time I go in there. Now I have to use a self checkout to buy something I know they need a person there for and then stand around like an idiot waiting for the cashier to come and assist.

If it’s a grocery store and I have even a moderate amount of produce, I don’t have the codes memorized and there’s no bar codes on it, so I have to find everything I’m buying on their checkout machine. Something else inevitably doesn’t scan or the bagging area detector freaks out about something and then I have to completely stop what I’m doing and wait for an employee to come and scan their card.

It has made it a lot easier to steal things though and with the terrible experience that comes with these things, I’m not far from doing.