Every time I go to my local supermarket, I go through the self-checkout line, partially to avoid interacting with the teenager mishandling my groceries, and partially because I really like to do things myself.  But, for whatever reason, the listless people formerly utilized as checkout people (and now utilized for nothing) feel the need to bag my groceries for me as they travel down the conveyor belt.  I could understand if my checkout speed caused a line to build up behind me, or if the store was crowded and needed to move people through as fast as possible.  But my local supermarket is never busy nor crowded.  It's always empty.  There's never another soul in line behind me.  So I don't understand the concept of a clerk bagging groceries in the self-checkout line.  It's a self-checkout line.  Obviously the people using it don't want help or they'd go to a non-self-checkout line. #business