This is one of those hmmmmmmmm kinds of entries that I have been thinking about over the past little while, especially having lovely experiences in the past week or two at the grocery stores. If you have noticed in the newer stores, they now have “do it yourself” isles where you stand in line and deal with the automated machine that scans your items, talks to you, takes your money, spits out a receipt and wishes you a good day. When they first came out at Superstore it was like total rocket science…just getting the damn thing to open up was hard enough. You would press START-scan your item, sometimes if you were lucky it would beep, most times it wouldn’t. Then it would cut you off and say, “please see your cashier”. The only difference is that whenever you look over your shoulder to FIND one, they are either not around or trying to help someone else from smashing the screen! (more…)