Re: Why has it been made so difficult?
Why?
Because now, through the use of these pieces of crap that are being foisted on customers all over, you become an unwilling and unpaid employee of the corporation running the store you've gone to buy your stuff while getting brainwashed into accepting the convenience it represents to you.
Novelty has to be difficult to use: it's part of the brainwash.
The proper thing to do is to refuse to use them, no matter how conveninient they may seem to be.
They are only convenient for the corporation and its shareholders, not to customers and most certainly not to the tellers who lose their job with the customer's cooperation.
O.