Yes because people who are using your system with the entirely wrong height to type anything absolutely need to be able to hit F3 instead of clicking pay. The whole shtick is having almost no functions. Add item, lookup items, pay

Why do you think that is wasted effort? You can have one person monitor 12 machines where 12 people are checking out

Why would you want to wait in line and only be able to access your money during 9-5 M-F

People steal a LOT. It’s impossible to catch the folks who steal without watching everyone. You are being watched whilst you shop too.

You are completely wrong about this. The cashier UI is less friendly and has lots of functions. Many are designed to be used with a keyboard or with small touch targets.

The user UI can basically do nothing but add items and pay. It is drastically simplified with few larger buttons and a greater degree of thought put into UI as you don’t get to train every user to use your UI.

The cashier at the self checkout is to

A) Do things that require intervention like verify your ID to sell alcohol

B) Help people having trouble

C) Keep people from literally paying for a banana and taking home TVs

They aren’t there to check you out. If you spend usually spend 15 minutes driving to the store, 15 minutes gathering a cart, and then walk away and spend 15 minutes driving home empty handed I believe the joke is on you. The employees get paid at this point $20 an hour to put away your shit while you wasted your own time and gas.

They are running lean enough many places that you actually wait in line to check yourself out. I have no problem checking myself out. Waiting in line to use a machine because they don’t have enough of them on the other hand… Literally some places run like one minder for 12 machines but they will have another 12 machines disabled because they don’t want to come off another minder.