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I’ve also noticed a lot of places with fewer employees running the whole place. There are shops I’ve casually walked into and left immediately due to the line. My time is worth something, and I consider making me wait as an extra hidden tax.

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As a single person who eats out far too often, I've observed a general decline of commercial eateries over the past year in staffing, ingredient quality, and menu offerings. It's back to organic PB&J's for me.

We've got most (all?) of the major pharmacy chains around us and each one staffs the same way: One, maybe two employees on the sales floor responsible for stocking shelves and manning the cash registers.

Behind the pharmacy counter though, there are usually more. However in my experience even with more people they're slower than ever.

Pharmacy counter employees are different from conscience store employees (like employed by different organizations within Safeway or the like), but even they are swamped as these ops are barebones

This was my experience in the mid to late 1990s.

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