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Jeff Miller: The inspiration for Punchfork came from the foodie magazines at the grocery checkout line.
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Automated, do-it-yourself systems are a part of our daily life whether we are at the grocery checkout, renting a DVD or paying at the gas pump.
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Personal touchscreen devices aren't as bad as the self-checkout screens in grocery stores, but he knows of rare cases where people contracted a serious skin disease called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, from sharing a cell phone with bacteria on it.
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Here it should also be said that thanks to the Internet, ATMs, and self-checkout stands at grocery stores, most of us never deal with a live human being when purchasing airline tickets, going to the bank, or when buying ground beef, the cost of which has soared under the Bernanke dollar.
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