Self-service

Self-service is the practice of serving oneself, usually when making purchases. Aside from Automated Teller Machines, which are not limited to banks, and customer-operated supermarket check-out, 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, and how reduced professionalism and distractions from primary duties have reduced value obtained from employees' time.

For decades, laws have been passed both facilitating and preventing self-pumping of gas and other self-service.