Doing it Yourself at the Supermarket Checkout
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The latest machine set to replace humans is the automatic checkout chick. It doesn’t do anything, just lets you do all the work of scanning, bagging and paying for your own groceries. The major chains and the developer of the technology are adamant that it will only ever be offered as a choice, alongside human operators, and that staff will be redeployed on the shopfloor. Bernard Finnigan for the shop workers union said the unions are confident so far that jobs are not threatened.
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