Self-serve checkouts and gas bars not the answer

It’s fair to say that it’s unfair how selfserve checkouts and self-serve gas bars adversely affect students and our aging population.

These two self-serve establishments are endangering the much needed jobs of today’s world, affecting school students, and retirees looking to work in these missing positions as cashiers or as gas bar attendants.

Today, this pattern of no customer consideration is becoming more common. We also know this practice is happening more frequently over time. What policy could be next in line for a change?

An issue over job losses is not the only problem to consider. There’s the issue of people in wheelchairs – those handicapped – and our aging population that deals with sore hips, knees, arms and backs on a daily basis. If a person has health issues, self-serve establishments are not the answer. It’s not the true meaning of customer service. For establishments using selfserve checkouts, I, for one, am not keen on your practice you have chosen for your loyal customers. For all the gas bar self-serve locations, I am not keen on your practice you have chosen for your loyal customers.

For any individuals in favor of selfserve checkouts and self-serve gas bars, keep on enjoying the self-serve service. It’s your choice. For myself and maybe others, self-serve businesses will never be the choice I will accept when it comes to shopping. Remember your customers are your future make or break cash flow.

Clarence Landry Seaview, Richmond Co.