Don't believe big business

Self checkouts are just another save-money investor scam.

I have complained Loblaw's. Now it's Walmart, too.  

I am not employed by them to scan and bag my purchases. 

Their prices are high and should include customer service. I never save money as a single person because everything is multiple.

I believe in service and employing people for a living not making customers work for the product they pay a premium for. 

When I shop small stores, it is the people who bring me back because of friendly service, not machines. 

The whole charging for plastic bags thing is a scam, too, with Loblaw's convincing the public they're going to save planet by charging for them. Instead, they millions in profit. 

Yet they still sell items in hard plastic containers that I have to recycle, making me buy more waste bags.

We are a gullible society. Walmart told me they can't hire enough people. No one applies? I don't believe it. 

For the first 25 years I lived here, I had to work for minimum wage part time to get by. In other provinces, I had full time at triple the wage. 

Why do so many seniors work? They have to – to survive on the inadequate pension they paid into. 

Now the stores are pushing order online and pick up. We are being forced by these stores for profit, no other reason.

Lori Alexander