There were shorter queues for a while. Now they aren’t. When they started most shops (I live in France) had both standard and automatic checkout. And about thr

There were shorter queues for a while. Now they aren’t. When they started most shops (I live in France) had both standard and automatic checkout. And about three people to deal with stuck machines (mostly scale issues, anti theft tag removal, and damaged barcodes). Now most smaller supermarkets only have the automatic queue and one person dealing with the trouble. This means that all people who really can’t use the automatic machines (kids, elderly, people doing large groceries) have to use them and the queue is constantly clogged. It was better for a little while, now it’s strictly worse.