I don’t consider self checkouts to be automation. All they don’t is turn the touch screen around to face the customer, and dumbed it down a bit. There’s nothi

I don’t consider self checkouts to be automation. All they don’t is turn the touch screen around to face the customer, and dumbed it down a bit. There’s nothing automated about having to perform the entire task yourself. My favourite pet peeve with the ones at my local supermarket is that they’re called “assisted checkouts”. Assisted? Yeah, by me.