I never stop for them. I’ll say “no thanks” or “I’m good, thank you anyway.”

Definitely helps to have headphones in.

I’m very willing to abandon a shopping cart full of food. This was a thing at the one store I would go to. They opened 1 register and the line was wrapped around the store.

Assert dominance and just use a different machine for the rest of the items. It’s not like an employee is showing up for a while anyway.

I had one of those self checkout machines think we were shoplifting. We had to sit there while the employees went through the video feed to verify it was an error. It was embarrassing. We were treated like criminals.

My local Walmart does that. I just wait by the cigarette area until someone comes by. They ask what kind of cigarettes and I just say I don’t smoke.

Also, I use cash for everything. The amount of times that these machines don’t have change or accept cash is frequent.

And the Molotov Crap-tail is born. We did it.