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Grocery checkout with a cashier has been optimized to be very fast and efficient over time. Also, most of my groceries have to be weighed and have no bar code. I can quickly unload my cart onto the conveyor belt and repack the cart as the cashier rings each item up. Since I am doing my own packing, any packing mishap is on me. There is no way I will ever be anywhere as fast as a cashier at looking up and entering product codes, much less remembering them. The staging areas at self checkout stations are ridiculously small. It is far too awkward and slow for me when I have more than a few items that have to be weighed. On top of all that, at my preferred store, SCO requires far too much futzing around with the touch screen menus.
I do most of my grocery shopping when the store opens and the line is short to non-existant and self checkout is closed anyway. If I need a couple of things mid day, then self checkout is more convenient.
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