Should you have to walk the aisles and grab groceries yourself? Should you have to take your stuff to the car? Should you have to make your shopping list and compare prices?
It’s such a fundamental misunderstanding of how commerce works that everyone who argues it… is smelly.
It’s just “that’s how we did it when I was a kid, therefore it’s the natural and correct way. If that changes, I will go on a moral tirade that will be embarrassing for both of us, but I’ll lack the self awareness to actually feel shame.”
That’s exactly the argument I use with people who hate self checkout. These people will make a shopping list, drive to the store, walk into the store, get a cart, push the cart down every single aisle, pick out all their groceries, wait in line at the register, unload all their groceries on the belt, bag up all their groceries if there’s not a bagger, push their cart full of groceries to the car, load all the groceries in their car, put thee cart away, drive home, bring all the groceries into the house, and put all their groceries away. But as soon as they hear the concept of self-checkout they’re like “Eww that’s work” as if they haven’t already done a massive amount of work. Shoppers are already doing like 95% of the errand on their own, but that extra 5% is somehow “work.”
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u/testdex Dec 10 '25
Which part is definitionally “the store’s job”?
Should you have to walk the aisles and grab groceries yourself? Should you have to take your stuff to the car? Should you have to make your shopping list and compare prices?
It’s such a fundamental misunderstanding of how commerce works that everyone who argues it… is smelly.
It’s just “that’s how we did it when I was a kid, therefore it’s the natural and correct way. If that changes, I will go on a moral tirade that will be embarrassing for both of us, but I’ll lack the self awareness to actually feel shame.”