[punyearthling]

I prefer self-checkout simply because I'm better at bagging my groceries than people are. Employees don't care if your food gets crushed by a carton of milk, or under fill the plastic bags; and that's another thing - human cashiers use plastic bags here in the US. I like having control over my bagging situation.

[fomine3]

This is one of a reason to prefer self checkout. Here in Japan, cashier people are careful but they move products from basket to another basket. After payment is done, I need to move products from basket to my bag. It's two LIFO-like moving operation, it's inefficient. Though in defense of traditional system, it should be efficient for POS system utilization .