Hurrah... good sense breaks out in the #NorthWest as the 'Waitrose of the North', Booths begins to get rid of self-service check-outs.
Given the price premium at Booths, we (the customers) want the social interaction with staff at the checkouts, not be told to 'scan & bag'!
More importantly, not only do checkouts provide regular local employment, they are also for many semi-isolated shoppers a key bit of rare social interaction... so a welcome reverse!
I live in Luxembourg where there are thankfully most tills are manned by living breathing human beings. I'm retired and I live alone so I would miss the human interaction of going through a till with an operator. Not only that, I spent years and years perfecting my French and now I have retired, I never get to use it except at supermarket checkouts, so I'm one of the chatty ones!
