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Some places make this stupidly difficult. Probably not an issue with plastic bags (but it might be, because of the stupid AI monitoring they all use now), but definitely an issue with boxes.
Aldi, at least when mine had them, you could put the empty boxes in the checkout area before starting and it would tare the scale. But only if you did it before starting the order. And they couldn't even accept their own gift cards at self checkout.
Costco, of all places, has no way of meaningfully using self checkout with more than a few items. You can't tare the scale at all.
Plastic bags cause problems, too. I've had this problem in several shops, I just don't bother anymore.