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5 tills have been opened in the new Express store and only one person is employed to service customers as they pass through the tills. While UNI Commerce accepts the right of companies to introduce such devices UNI remains sceptical towards the real intentions of Tesco as the company, have not been willing to discuss the issue with UNI Commerce.

What little experience it has been possible to gain on the use of self-check out tills indicate that a majority of costumers prefer the "old style" check-out with a human touch to it. Tesco has said that they want to have more people on the shop floor and the overall number of employees would remain unchanged but the support that the new shop got from the British retail Consortium seems to indicate otherwise.

Self check-out tills are used in many stores also among competitors but always as an additional option to the traditional tills.





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