Self Checkout

Checkout emperor.....I'm totally using that.

Also on the bag issue. My wife started carrying in her own bags a few years ago. I will say it's so much nicer using your own bag versus the plastic bags. The environment impact is obvious but it's overall just a nicer set up. We can get pretty much all our weekly groceries in 3-4 bags. It makes it way better to load/unload at the car and at the house. Takes a bit to get accustomed to but once you do you'll never go back to plastic bags.

I just hope you wash em regularly. The vast majority of the customers I used to encounter had at least one of the following bits of nastiness in their reusable bags: smoke stench, a lot of hairs, pet odor, or food crumbs.