Self-checkout has made shopping worse

I taught for thirty-eight years and I have never been accused of theft, until Tuesday, by a machine, over a lettuce. "Unexpected item in bagging area." A young man came and pressed a button and did not look at me. I had done his job, badly, for free, and been treated as a suspect for my trouble. There are four tills at my supermarket and one has a person at it, and the queue for the person is the length of the shop. That queue is the vote. The rest of us are just doing as we're told.