Self-service

Self-service is the practice of serving oneself, usually when making purchases.^[1] Aside from Automated Teller Machines, which are not limited to banks, and customer-operated supermarket check-out,^[2] labor-saving which has been described as self-sourcing, there is the latter's subset, selfsourcing and a related pair: End-user development and end-user computing.

Note has been made how paid labor has been replaced with unpaid labor,^[3][2] and how reduced professionalism and distractions from primary duties have reduced value obtained from employees' time.^[4]

For decades, laws have been passed both facilitating and preventing self-pumping of gas^[5] and other self-service.^{[This whole section iks largely incoherent and needs to be rewritten.]}