I used to prefer going to a regular cashier. But early in the pandemic, when all the health advice was about contact-spreading and hand washing, we switched to

I used to prefer going to a regular cashier. But early in the pandemic, when all the health advice was about contact-spreading and hand washing, we switched to self-checkout with a cart and doing the bagging back at our car, where we left our own bags. Now, it's become a habit and I realize we prefer not to have the distracted or rushed staff smashing all our groceries into bags in the worst order possible. It's also become almost a towers of hanoi game for me to carefully unload our full cart onto that little weighing platform and then back into the cart. I will defer buying alcohol since it requires regular cashier service here. Early on, I fought the systems and swore at terrible UX, until I found how to pace myself for the machine. It's also a team sport. While I amuse myself with the object packing problem, my wife likes to audit the pricing system. Almost all our calls for support have to do with her principled refusal to accept their errors, which are almost always in the store's favor. It borders on fraud how often the scanned prices do not match what was published in weekly ads or posted on the shelf.