> “Stores across the country are reversing course on the machines” Umm, what? I see no evidence of this. There are more self-checkouts than ever. Many shops in

> “Stores across the country are reversing course on the machines” Umm, what? I see no evidence of this. There are more self-checkouts than ever. Many shops in London are almost entirely self-checkouts now, with just one or two token staffed check-outs for people who want to buy vapes or whatever. Besides, where would they even get the staff to go back to manual checkouts? It’s already super frustrating when a shop doesn’t have enough self checkout machines and you have to line up! Many supermarkets are offering self-scan via apps now anyway, so you can skip the check out entirely (except that you still need to use the self checkout machine to do the final payment).