I agree. I've found self-checkout (of the variety common in US supermarkets) to be no faster than employee-run checkout for normal grocery loads. It may be fa

I agree. I've found self-checkout (of the variety common in US supermarkets) to be no faster than employee-run checkout for normal grocery loads. It may be faster for a handful of items, but once the shopper has many items, particularly a lot of produce, the lookup mechanism (picture matching, usually) for he produce slows the whole thing to stand-still. Add in manual ID verification for alcohol and drug purchases and it slows even more. Add in problems with coupons, payment, or other errors, it slows more. And then most of them have some sort of scale on the bagging end which never works well - bulk items, too many items to fit on the shelf, etc.