My #costco self-checkout burned itself out. They took it away after probably the upteenth manager meeting on self-checkout. First it was indeed self-checkout. Then there was a minder at each station. After that a checker checked you out, the notion of self removed from the task of checkout. Self never came back, and the checkers had to initial the receipt like it was a work of art. Then that stopped and higher ups checked badges while you stood in line, posing the question are you who you pretend to be? Self was now in complete doubt. Chaos crept in. One dark day I was accused of line cutting, and was about to put up my dukes while insisting to my accuser to just go ahead. And so he did, cursing all the way to the regular checkout off to the left. Another day I saw a manager wrangling with a person pushing tons of food towards the self-checkout. "sir, SIr! There is a line!" No it wasn't me again. Some days there were two lines. Other days there was just one line for the six stations. And now it's all gone. When I went before the judge to plead my case of self- and full-purchasing, I asked about the self-checkout, waiting for him to count my four items. "You know, it's not just us, they're shutting them down all over. Too many problems."