I felt almost awful when after seeing a long line for checkout I straight lined for the very empty self checkout machine and got done within minutes.
The reason I feel bad is because a lot of people are losing their jobs since everything has gotten so automatic and now not only do superstores have these machines but also popular stores like decathalon.
I was looking for a new pair of yoga pants and ended up with a shopping cart full of far too many things and noticed that where there were almost a dozen cashiers there was now just the one and that too empty and in fact I saw almost no employees there.
Only machines scanning barcodes and payments made through phones.
Not just that, I saw robots in place of help desks in many shopping complexes and it just hurts to know and see that we end up interacting more with machines, not that anyone seems to mind because socializing is so 90's.
I mean I understand seeing how I don't step out of the door if my neighbour is about to leave or is entering her house and wait until there's no one out so as to avoid making small talk, but even so I got a bit weirded out when a binary voiced automaton greeted me when I entered a store.
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I was about to post this over five hours ago but got busy with this and that now and so here it is now.
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