‘It hasn’t delivered’: The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology
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‘It hasn’t delivered’: The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology
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Unstaffed tills were supposed to revolutionise shopping. Now, both retailers and customers are bagging many self-checkout kiosks.
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I think self checkout is a good way for stores to get more customers through faster but the stores seem to think they are a replacement for human cashiers and they are not at all. They are nice to have in addition to human cashiers.

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