Self-checkout lanes are a sneaky way that large businesses have gotten rid of the need to pay as many employees by manipulating the customer into doing that job for free. You still need someone to monitor it and it takes longer for the customer to figure out what the employee should have been trained to take care of instead. It has also gotten to a point where it’s a “convenience creating option” that is no longer an option. I am tired of going into home depot and there being no one on a register or only 1 and 24 self-checkout lanes. Ridiculous. I don’t work for you.
I don’t know whether an outright ban is reasonable, but we should at least regulate it so that it can’t be more than 50/50. You must have 1 ACTIVE employee operated checkout line per self-checkout.
On the other hand. You could say that for every self-checkout use, the company has to pay that customer minimum/standard 30 minutes wages at their regular rate.
While this sounds kind of extreme, it gets rid of the sneaky shit and encourages businesses to create and maintain jobs instead of investing in machine replacements and hoarding all their wealth instead of investing it back into the economy.