> Removing cashiers and automating checkouts just frees up the staff to focus on other in-store work. The supermarkets are functioning fine which leads me to t

> Removing cashiers and automating checkouts just frees up the staff to focus on other in-store work. The supermarkets are functioning fine which leads me to think that there isn't a whole lot of other in-store work waiting to be done if only more staff were free to do it. Automating the checkouts just reduces the levels of staff that you need.