If I Go Into a Shop I Don’t Expect to Serve Myself

I’ve just been asked yet again in Sainsbury’s if I want to do my own check-out. I’d rather stick pins in my eyes.
I tried to use the self-service check out once before in Tesco and it was the most stressful, embarassing ten minutes of my entire life. Ten minutes to buy £6 worth of groceries! I kid you not!
The woman in the machine kept on shouting out that there was an unscanned item in the bagging area. There wasn’t but what do you do? Everyone thought I was shoplifting. I ended up screaming at her “No there isn’t!” and thus drawing even more attention to myself, not to mention feeling absolutely stupid for shouting at a machine.
I know this is a way of reducing staff and tthat the day will come when there are no checkout assistants in Tesco’s or Sainsbury’s or Asda or Waitrose and that will be a great shame. Not least of all, because if I have to check it out myself I will surely starve to death. Or have a nervos breakdown and be carted out of the supermarket by the men in white coats.