>In some of those cases, I've just left my groceries there at the machine and walked out the store. I tell myself "That'll show 'em, they'll have to put all tha

>In some of those cases, I've just left my groceries there at the machine and walked out the store. I tell myself "That'll show 'em, they'll have to put all that stuff back on the shelf!" But it obviously doesn't show them anything: they never fix the broken parts of the self-checkout and I end up having to return to that supermarket (or another) for the reason that brought me into the store in the first place. This seems... like a pretty lame take. I bet in most cases the employees will never know why someone just left their stuff there. Some of it could be perishable so it'll need to be tossed rather than re-stocked onto the shelves. And not only that, I doubt the people responsible for those machines at whatever corporate level are really checking metrics on why someone starts a checkout and then randomly stops. That's just too many steps removed. However, there should definitely be a better way. I just don't think this is it.