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What do you miss the most from the 90s?
(beehaw.org)
having somewhere to go that isn’t trying to get me to spend money.
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No automated self serve checkouts.
never used one, never will
Perhaps. Stores used to have an employee take your shopping list, and go fetch all of the products off of the shelves for you. As I understand it, Piggly-Wiggly pioneered a new method, making the customers go fetch everything in their grocery stores, in order to save money on wages.
We got used to doing the store employees' job on that one, so we'll probably get used to the self-checkout, too.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Oh, we'll get used to it allright
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Those machines are just plain rude and noisy.
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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