Random thought….I was shopping at Walmart tonight and I used the self-checkout. One of the women working in the self-checkout area literally stood beside me and watched me scan and bag every single item. It was awkward af. I can imagine they are now doing this because of the increase in people not scanning every item when they check out. I read an article that the stealing is so bad the Walmart CEO said they may increase prices or close stores as a result. It had me thinking that self-checkouts have become a self-own for so many retail stores. They installed these self-checkouts in order to limit the amount of staff they have employed in their stores. And now, stealing at these stations is rampant. I have to wonder, is it more costly to employ more workers, or to lose so much product to theft? I bet it'd be cheaper just to hire more employees to make sure each item gets properly scanned when people leave the store. A greedy self-own if you ask me.