Way back when full serve gasoline was a thing, and I can currently go to at least one of the big hardware shops here and get a hand loading if it’s a lot of stuff or particularly large items. Airlines used to serve steak and flying was treated as a more formal affair.
The overarching point is that as thing go on shops and services have continued this trend of getting more transactional in their handling. There’s much more of a ‘give me your money and GTFO’ than it was. This come a lot from the dominance of places like Walmart killing off competition so you’re left with a ‘where else can you go’ situation.
Way back when full serve gasoline was a thing, and I can currently go to at least one of the big hardware shops here and get a hand loading if it’s a lot of stuff or particularly large items. Airlines used to serve steak and flying was treated as a more formal affair.
The overarching point is that as thing go on shops and services have continued this trend of getting more transactional in their handling. There’s much more of a ‘give me your money and GTFO’ than it was. This come a lot from the dominance of places like Walmart killing off competition so you’re left with a ‘where else can you go’ situation.