Walking into Walmart now, if I see I've got to self checkout, it means I usually only get what I absolutely need. For my shopping habits (shop til the cart is

Walking into Walmart now, if I see I've got to self checkout, it means I usually only get what I absolutely need. For my shopping habits (shop til the cart is full), that means I purchase maybe only 5-10% of what I'd normally spend on such a trip. That's an inefficient trip to me. And I was one of those people who would wait for a worker to ring me up, no matter how long the line. Now that you can't even count on the tobacco/alcohol lane to be open, they've successfully forced me to change my shopping habits. Changing shopping habits is usually the holy grail of retail marketing, butin this case it can't be the direction they want to encourage. I know I'm not every shopper, but the more a person typically buys/spends per trip, the more likely they are to see self-checkout as a hassle (more work/ takes longer), and more likely they are to eventually reduce their per-trip item count.