Store Self Check Outs: Love Them or Loathe Them? [POLL] Hopefully, your answer is somewhere in between the two. And most people do not want to see people lose their jobs. Over the self-check issue or for any other reason. Understanding that corporations always try to do things more "efficiently", and sometimes those companies that report to Wall Street see cost-cutting as more efficient. For the record, I do use the self check out at Hannaford’s. But I also have 6 to 12 items, not a grocery cart overflowing with items from a weekly shopping list. I tend to go every couple of days to the grocery store.