I absolutely hate going back home to the US and dealing with a self-checkout that assumes you are a thief. Here in the Netherlands at the local stores, I walk

I absolutely hate going back home to the US and dealing with a self-checkout that assumes you are a thief. Here in the Netherlands at the local stores, I walk up, scan my items, pay, and walk out. Randomly, the POS selects you for a check and a person comes by and scans a random 5-10 items from your cart to make sure you don’t have extra items. There’s also no “please but the item in the bagging area” bullshit. I literally scan the item and toss it in my backpack or cart; though you learn (from the random checks) not to put it in your backpack unless you want a random stranger digging through your backpack to scan items. At some stores, you don’t even scan the items. They have an rfid system (similar to some libraries in the US) that just knows what you have. You then just double check the list and pay. Just thinking about US self-checkout makes me angry. After being treated like an adult, it just makes you angry.