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  Sometimes I'm too impatient to wait in line for regular check out.
context: I love self check out and my “discount” is that I don’t have to talk to people. >
  
  You should sue Walmart, OP. This is despicable behavior. >
  
  Better yet, go there and throw a tantrum until the manager gives you your hard earned PTO and benefits package since you're technically an employee. >
  
  I would pay to use self check out instead of dealing with a cashier >
  
  I honestly like self checkout. I like to be able to group my groceries together in my bags and stack them properly. Also I can just do it faster. I usually save a few minutes of time. I just prefer to be independent. I dont go on screaming on Facebook saying stupid shit like "I SHOULD GET PAID TO DO THEIR JOB". That is honestly stupid. >
  
  I do little scan and go thing. Literally takes me five seconds to checkout. It’s awesome >
  
  Self checkout is faster. How is it a scam? >
  
  Only explanation I can think of is OP doesn't know what a scam is.... >
  
  Self checkouts are the absolute greatest invention in the history of humankind! For me personally, the absolute worst part about going grocery shopping is the people. I absolutely hate people!
  Whenever I have to go through a normal checkout line with a cashier, I absolutely can't stand it when they want to be all friendly and chatty. I know it's their job and everything, but not everybody likes to be sociable.
  That's why I love self checkout so much. Don't have to interact with anybody at all. Just me and my groceries and I get to bag them the way I want to. >
  
  I call it the line curse.  The person in front of me who has enough items to take 2-3 minutes to be scanned.  The cashier says something like $24.68 cents.  At that point, and not before, they take out their wallet and count out $24.  Then go to their change purse/pocket to find the 68 cents (a quarter, three dimes, a nickel, and eight pennies). >
  
  I have bad anxiety, so if I can check out without interacting with a person, I prefer it. That’s the only reason I’m ok with it though. >
  
  I live in Germany and you are literally lying. 
  
  Self checkouts are pretty much not a thing here.
  They exist in some very few bigger chains like Edeka, but only since very recently (like, not even 2 years ago), and Aldi is not one of them.
  You don't get a discount for using a self-checkout in Germany either.
  
  I don't know what exactly you meant by "handling their shopping experience more independently", but if you're still talking about Aldi in Germany, neither do they have self-checkouts nor do they offer any kind of discounts for whatever you mean by independent shopping. >
  
  
  I became accustomed to a retailer offering reduced prices in turn for customers handling their shopping experience more independently
  
  Uh what? I can't be the only one in germany who has not even once experienced that one.... >
  
  Oh my God I knew America is evil but this.....THIS....this is unspeakable. >
  
  I don’t like shopping in general, but self-checkouts involve you talking to less people so I generally use them. >
  
  total scam! >
  
  It all depends, for me in tesco i use the scan as you go beepy-do so i can keep a running tally of how much ive spent and pack it in a way thays efficient for putting things away once i get them home (frozen, chilled ect) and to pay you beep the scanner at the till. Using the checkout i have to unload everything so they can scan it, then load it all back into my trolley (and do it all as fast as possible because the anxiety of causing someone the inconvenience of having to do their job or wait behind me is overwhelming) and only then see how much it comes too... cant do it.
  Self scan tills make more sense for the "10 items or less" and the self scanners. When people have entire baskets full... they should be going to a till >
  
  Yeah I'm not big on the self checkout thing, but as someone else put it to me "it's a great way of getting $200 worth of groceries for only $50" >
  
  I like it because theres less reliance other people who are liable to disappoint me. >
  
  I love it.  I’d rather do it myself then wait on someone else to do it for me, and usually do it wrong.  Honestly, I’d pay extra to use the self checkout if I had to. >
  
  You get discounts? Im lucky if I get a “hello” tf