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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikecouil, post: 1531722, member: 31420&quot;]You are incorrect.&nbsp; Self check out lanes serve one purpose and one purpose only; to eliminate the need for a cashier.&nbsp; Whether you find one in a grocery store, Walmart, or Jack In the Box (yes, even they tried it for a little while), the goal is the same.&nbsp; Let me ask you a question.&nbsp; If the self check out lane DOESN&#039;T save Walmart money by not having to pay a cashier to do something you&#039;ve volunteered to do yourself, then why would they spend the money to install them in the first place? </p><p><br /></p><p>As for not having a person at every checkout lane, of course they don&#039;t.&nbsp; Why should they when there are plenty of people out there willing to cash themselves out and bag their own merchandise, receiving no discount in the process and yet eliminating a human job.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Walmart does not actually take away jobs from small stores.&nbsp; It has been shown time and time again through various studies that it is essentially a wash for the local economy when Walmart eats up small businesses.&nbsp; The only people who are really left high and dry are the owners of those businesses, not the low wage employees.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s up to you if you want to use whatever conveniences are out there.&nbsp; I&#039;m not suggesting anyone is anti-american or a bad person by using them.&nbsp; It IS however important to understand the implications though.&nbsp; Albertsons pulled all of their self checkout lanes after customer backlash.&nbsp; Meanwhile JC Penny is talking about eliminating ALL cashiers and putting in self checkout systems in their place.&nbsp; Clearly this is one hundred percent on the consumer, who will dictate with his/her wallet if these jobs worked by their neighbors and their neighbors kids matter to them at all.&nbsp; Over the past 25 years we answered that question when it came to ATM&#039;s and foreign automobiles.&nbsp; I am sure we as a society will answer this question in the same way, but I won&#039;t.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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