On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:01 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
One humanoid can look after 4 or 6 self op checkouts, instead of just
the one they are sat at. It's pure profit motivation from the store,
it's nothing to do with customer service.


Apparently, the two major selling points for the self-checkouts are a
reduction in staff costs (obviously) plus also a reduction in fraud.