Self Checkout

St. Widge said
I do the vast majority of my shopping on Amazon or other online sites. The only place I really buy stuff from in person are the grocery and the pharmacy so my experience with self-checkout in the last 10 years or so is limited. I don't do it at the grocery because it's always a bunch of stuff for the weekly groceries and there is no self-checkout for prescription drugs. And the closer grocery I go to for a few items at a time doesn't have self-checkout.

I'm sure there are places it works well, and I recall it working okay at Home Depot, but most of the places I go now it's not really an option.

Yeah, we do a lot of shopping online, but groceries at Safeway, or sometimes Walmart on rare occasions when I need to get a specific item I can't get nearby.

Amazon is getting better with shipping options for some items. Our blender died, so we ordered another one on Amazon and they shipped it to us same day. Like 5 hours after I ordered it, for free. I probably would have gone to a local store to pick one up, but the price was the same on Amazon and free same day shipping was a no-brainer.