I actually like Seattle.  It’s a good place to live if you hate everybody anyway.

It’s time for revolution, first step should be to destroy the new automated machinery in textile factories.

You fundamentally misunderstand the motivations of corporate overlords. They don’t do things with the customer’s comfort in mind. They have two motivations: extract as much money from you as possible, at the lowest possible cost to them.

The author understands the objective truth that Bezos is a piece of trash and those feelings have colored their view of this store. Saving time at the grocery is always good but they couldn’t admit that so we get this article.

My personal fear, upon picking up desirable grocery items: “Our scanners have weighed and measured you, and your BMI is too high to buy that pint of Ben & Jerry’s. Amazon is shipping a treadmill to your home.”

Every grocery store I’ve ever been to only utilizes 1/4 or less of their available checkout lanes. Even when the line is snaking out and into the food aisles they don’t open another. What the heck are all those checkout lanes for? Even the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, the entire month of December, and Superbowl…

“That’s a lot of stuff”

“...Yes”

“You’re kind of young to be buying 200$ worth of groceries”

“OK”

“Are you sure you need—”

“... Just take my debit card and let me leave”

Actual exchange. 

Have you never had the opposite experience, where the cashier asks a question that starts a pleasant, possibly even informative little conversation? On balance, I find these brief interactions to skew slightly positive.

Stop & Shop has handheld scanner guns that you check out with your loyalty card, and most of the carts even have a dedicated holder for the contraption. You scan and bag as you go. You have to weigh and print a label for by-weight items (then scan the label) but it’s no worse than having to do it at the self-checkout.…

He doesn’t care about your time, he cares only about your money.

Well first off, it’s not Spanish ham. “Soy ham” is a description, not an introduction.

They are all probably packaged by weight. 

Is making 60-second chit-chat with cashiers really that excruciating?

Are grocery lines getting so long that they’re holding mankind back from happiness?

Are you seriously arguing that removing waiting in lines and talking to cashiers (or worse, making me bag my own shit) is anything but a net positive?

This is my concern. Seems as though there would be a lot of potential for invalid charges, hacked accounts. Not to mention a shoplifter’s paradise.

You’re not supposed to look at the receipt. What, are you some sort of accountant or something?

How do I dispute this claim for the $500 Spanish ham you claim I put in my cart?

I live in NYS, and though I have been using them for awhile already, reusable totes will be the norm for grocery shopping as of 3/1. Or you can pay each time for paper bags.

You can! But why would you?