{"id":29702,"date":"2022-05-17T23:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/05\/17\/tesco-shoppers-plea-to-bring-back-till-staff\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:31:05","slug":"tesco-shoppers-plea-to-bring-back-till-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/05\/17\/tesco-shoppers-plea-to-bring-back-till-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco shopper’s plea to bring back till staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Tesco shopper is calling on the supermarket to “stop replacing people with machines” after struggling to use the store’s self-service checkouts.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pat McCarthy, 69, started a petition calling for more cashiers at checkouts because “you can’t talk to a machine”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She is one of many complaining that self-checkouts are slow or difficult to use, and her petition has been signed by more than 97,000 people.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tesco said staff are always on hand to help with any type of checkout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms McCarthy, from Brentford in west London, said she started her campaign after visiting the Tesco Extra in Osterley, where she said three-quarters of the checkouts are self-checkouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThese new checkouts are not accessible to people who don’t have credit cards and can only use cash, or to those who have little confidence in using these checkout-only checkouts\u2014myself included,\u201d she wrote on her Change.org page .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The volunteer, who helps people with disabilities, told the BBC there were five or six staffed tills but she had to wait 30 minutes due to queues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“They need some self-service for the people who find them more convenient, but just less,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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