text:  Shoppers around the world are increasingly avoiding automated checkouts. Unhappy about retailers replacing staff with robotic machines, as well as the annoyance of delays when the technology goes wrong. But I wonder what other shoppers here think of using self-checkout tools. They're very convenient, but, you know, you don't want people losing their jobs to automated machines. The only thing it gets interrupted for is when they want to check your shopping. But the technology has always worked well for me.