# How do you feel about self-checkout now?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-self-checkout-now/967725 "2022-07-10T20:24:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-self-checkout-now/967725/155 "2022-07-12T15:42:24Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> Some possibilities occur to me: (1) There was a barcode on the tomatoes that you didn’t see, but the scanner did; (2) A video camera recognized the product through AI, (3) You accidentally bumped a selection screen, and the correct item popped up coincidentally, or ?

The first explanation raised my spirits - Because I thought someone saying: _“ARGH, YOUVE gotten a tomato that was sent out by mistake from a GMO lab. Where they’re working on having the barcodes grow as an invisible thing on the peel. And eating these vegetables will alter your DNA so you’ll have a bar code on your forehead…”_

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