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What really winds me up, though, is when you go into Tesco at certain times of day, and of 10 "manned" checkouts, only one of them is actually "manned", the rest are left unattended, presumably in a cynical attempt to force customers to use the self service tills.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not an "anti-Tesco" person by any means. I like the shop. I just find these self service checkouts smack of laziness and penny pinching on the part of Tesco, and I find their very existence a bit of an insult.
The joke is, at busy times Tesco have to employ a member of staff to attend the "self service" checkouts. They're there to assist all the poor shoppers who get befuddled trying to use these machines, and all of these shoppers are noticeably annoyed and angry at having to use them in the first place!
If anything I'd say I'a Tesco fan, but I don't see one single redeeming feature in these "do it yourself" checkouts. Come on Tesco - surely you can afford to ditch them and go back to good old fashioned "members of staff"? Your customers would really appreciate it.
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