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Butterfield wrote:

[Northern]Supermarket chain Booths is axing almost all self-service tills in its stores in what it says is a response to customer demand.

The firm, which has 16 stores in Lancashire as well as outlets in Yorkshire and Cheshire, said the policy was driven by customer feedback.

Booths is believed to be the first UK supermarket to move away from using self-service tills, which have become increasingly common in recent years.

"We believe colleagues serving customers delivers a better customer experience and therefore we have taken the decision to remove self-checkouts in the majority of our stores," the company said.

Speaking to BBC Radio Lancashire, Booths managing director Nigel Murray, said: "Our customers have told us this over time, that the self-scan machines that we've got in our stores they can be slow, they can be unreliable, they're obviously impersonal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-67373472


More of this please. I hate self-service checkouts. They're okay for one or two items but make me anxious when it's more than that, telling you off for doing the wrong thing or locks up, has a red flashing light and calls a member of staff over like you've done something naughty. So frustrating.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Also, if you tell the machine you've brought your own bag, it can't cope with the information and summons a member of staff to deal with you.

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A note with slurs about Birmingham people that was stuck to a house in mid Wales is being treated as a hate crime.

Dyfed-Powys Police said it was put up on a property in Iorwerth Avenue, Aberystwyth, on Monday night.




It claims what it called "low-life" from the Midlands had ruined the area, urging them to go back to "Brummyland".

It called the West Midlands accent "vomit-inducing" and urged the occupant to "take a few thousand" other people back with them.

The note read: "Iorwerth Ave was once a nice, quiet, pleasant residential area until a load of [people] from the Midlands hit.

"Low-life like you should be forced to live in fenced in sites, preferably back where you came from."

The note continued: "Why don't you take your clapped out crappy boats, jeeps, cars and your hideous vomit-inducing accents back to Brummyland."

A Dyfed-Powys Police spokesperson said: "An offensive note was left outside a property that has caused distress to the occupants.

"The note was left just after 19:00 GMT on the evening of 8 January. Officers would like to speak with the individual who left the note."

Police appealed for anyone with information relating to the note to contact the force.