"During the years I spent processing purchases at big-box and chain retailers in the 2000s, every point-of-sale system I used felt more intuitive and less error-prone than the ones I’m now regularly tasked with navigating as a paying member of the public.There’s little evidence that self-checkout is reliably faster than the old cashier system, and that feel of convenience has always been largely..."
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