When I was a teenager bagging groceries, the self checkout was just entering the market. I thought what a revolutionary invention; why interact with humans when you can go much faster with a machine. Now that I'm older I must confess that I loathe the self checkout. I spend too much time waiting in line for one of the cashiers because I just don't like the self checkout experience.

Self introspectively I have a conflict: I don't like that self checkout takes jobs away, but there are some businesses where self-checkout is very helpful; McDonalds. I envision a future in which you place your order at the fast food place on a kiosk, and then someone hands you the food, three employees max while a computer makes the food.

Grocery stores...feel different, and perhaps it is the social aspect of it.