Someone's stirring up the Bees Nest about "you" doing the work at Self-checkouts

I use the “self checkout” at Costco. There are up to three employees with hand scanners that scan my items in the cart. I don’t have to remove anything and all I have to do is flash the credit card. It is faster than the regular line where you have to pull your items from the cart and put them on the conveyor belt.

I went into CVS today to buy a Valentine’s Day card. There was an employee at the self checkout who did everything for me for one item. It was faster than waiting for the dude behind the counter.

Years ago the tech people were saying that the future would bring FID sensors in the shopping cart that would automatically tally up your items and all you would have to do is flash your credit card at the checkout station. I don’t know what happened to that proposed system.