While I agree that in the vast majority of cases, automated cashiers are anti-worker bullshit, I do want to shout out my local grocery store for doing it differently. I was dismayed when I first saw automated checkouts being built in the store where they usually staged their caselot sale items at the end of the row of tills (it used to be a second entry/exit to the stores) No human-run tills were removed to put them in, but I still figured they were just trying to cut payroll and said as much to my cashier one day but she told me it was quite the opposite, they were actually going to need to hire 4 new cashiers in order to have a body supervising the 4 self-checkouts while the other checkouts would maintain regular staffing levels... the idea for them came more from the fact that there is a lot of construction going on on the area right now, in addition to longtime neighbourhood workers who just want to come in for a sandwich and a drink at lunch and oftentimes wind up in a line behind folks doing bigger shops, or just leaving... so this way they could breeze in and out. And that's exactly what's happened, there are consistently more employees on the floor than before, and I too have definitely used the convenience of the self-checkout when only grabbing one or two items, though more often than not I will still wait for a cashier unless only the two or three I don't much care for are currently running tills.
As I said off the top, shit's fucked and for the most part the robots are stealing jobs... but I was happily surprised to see it used differently in my neighbourhood.