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On state, this is a butcher shop, no service. no cooking or serving, yet they ask you if you'd like to flip. >> a flip screen in a butcher shop. >> yes. >> i don't think i've ever seen that before. >> how do you decide to do that? >> these men and women have a knowledge base that they're taking to share when they come through the door. they're not pressured to but they're tipping because they pay for a service provided. >> reporter: emily owns the butcher shop and two restaurants in new haven, connecticut. at restaurants her front of house staff make tipped minimum wage at 6.38. the back of ho...

And it wasn't even a real world scenario. >> let's say you go to a coffee shop and all they do is twist around the laptop, it is like why am i tipping. >> reporter: but the small group we spoke to said more often than not, they end up tipping. >> i put a dollar or two. i don't michnd. as long as it is not a lot. >> reporter: this is provisions on state, a butcher shop. no table service, no cooking or serving, yet they will ask you if you would like to tip. a flip screen in the butcher shop. i don't think that i've ever seen that before. >> yes. >> reporter: how did you decide to do that? >> th...

We've all experienced this at least once and felt uncomfortable.

Some self-checkout machines are now asking customers for tips as consumers cry "emotional blackmail" amid debate over "tipflation."

The Wall Street Journal says some self-checkouts are asking for tips. For what? Do you think you would ever give your hard earned money to a self-checkout machine?