They think the self check out is efficient enough, and they trying to save money on overall hour payments. Greed in a nutshell would be your answer. And shopping cart question, is stupidity, laziness, and/or more greed. (Don't even change the broken tires, if they don't wanna buy a new fleet)
They figure they don't have to try anymore, their a monopoly.
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