- Rating
- Bollocks
- Working title
- Self-Checkout Machines: The Tills That Think You’re a Criminal
- Subject
- Supermarket self-checkouts that turn buying a few items into a low-level accusation.
- What the piece would argue
- Self-checkout machines are sold as convenient, but too often they shift labour to the customer and leave suspicion with the shop.
- Why it fits Bleh
- The irritation is common, specific and slightly absurd, with a real point about unpaid labour, surveillance and bad design.
- Possible opening line
- Nothing says modern shopping like being accused by a machine of having a bag for life.