You do realize that your grocery bill is $20 cheaper because you’re doing that $1 of labor, right? Staffing more people just makes their products more expensive which just makes you go somewhere else to bitch about self checkout
If the cashier is scanning 12-15 items per minute the average cost of having a part time, no benefits cashier would be maybe 5 cents per item. And there would be considerably less organized retail theft so they wouldn't necessarily have to pass the cost on to the customer.
How on earth does that make sense to you? A cashier isn’t paid per item they scan. Having 10 cashiers at a time instead of 3 costs $X extra dollars per day. That’s $365X dollars per year. The store needs to charge enough more on every product to make $365X extra dollars every year
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