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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No it's probably the method that lands the most euros into the shareholders pockets, regardless of the effects in other places. Dollarstore in the US is this but then at an extreme, John Oliver did a nice piece on it.

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