“Unexpected item in bagging area” was a common misery for everyone in London in 2012. Don’t know if it’s improved there since.

In NL they now do ‘random checks’ of 10 items, which is basically ‘you having to unpack all your shopping’ and pack again so they can check if you stole.

The concept of self checkout is ridiculous, making you an unpaid employee and then blaming you for mistakes. It tries to solve the owner’s stinginess for not hiring more staff. It’s not there to help you, it’s there to suppress employees.

We are not homo erectus though. So that’s a rather silly comparison.

People haven’t survived millions of years.