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By now, most people are aware of the trend towards self-checkouts in many retail store chains. From Wal-Mart to Whole Foods to Home Depot, we’ve all encountered those electronic kiosks at which you can scan and pay for your goods instead of having a live person do it for you.
Someone must think this is a good idea since they have gone way beyond the experimental stage and such kiosks are everywhere. Someone must have done some calculations and determined that not having to pay wages, employment taxes and dealing with troublesome employees would result in huge benefits to the bottom line. We can see the marketing spin on this; the customer can do it as fast as a clerk and it will be more “convenient”. In reality, anyone who has stood behind someone unable to properly scan an i