Totally agree with that!
I have friends who are struggling as uber drivers and truck drivers, keeping a roof over their heads.
From a personal, economic stand point... it is VERY much like those stupid automatic cashiers...
Walmart has 6-10 of them in a small area, with one person to help if there is a problem... and there is ALWAYS a problem, and ALWAYS a massive line!
I would rather walk away from a cart full of groceries that I spent 2 hours shopping for, than to stand in line to check myself out, cause I always become a "problem child"... everything that can go wrong, will go wrong with my order...
But mostly... it takes away from the human side... 6-10 cashiers have been replaced by machines! Machines that are there ONLY to make $ for walmart... or whatever company uses them. They spend no $ in maintenance or upkeep as 1/2 the time, I am not the only "problem child"... I am sorta glad everyone else has issues too... not just me.
Oh, and the cart I left.... people have to put everything away by hand, cause a machine can not do it! Job security!
I just make sure that there are no perishables in the cart.... cause that is a waste. :-(