by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:

Who else reading this story absolutely hates using the ‘self-checkout’ machines that stores across the nation suddenly brought in to ‘replace’ human beings and ‘eliminate’ jobs (and salaries and benefits so they thought) for ‘real’ people several years ago, unwisely thinking it would help them to ‘save a buck‘?

With me myself promising years ago that I’d never again use such a ‘machine checkout’ counter after I had used one at a ‘Dollar Store’ to buy just a couple of items only for the machine to go absolutely haywire, attempting to charge me a boatload more for the items I had carefully scanned in and then having the machine attempting to ‘steal’ my money, we can now report that this kind of ‘experience’ must be happening all across the country to increasingly enraged Americans, people who are often forced to stand in line for 20 minutes or more to buy a single package of gum or a soda.