I WAS interested to read that some supermarkets have gone to as much as 90 per cent self-service checkouts, saving the expense of employing staff who would have manned those conventional checkouts.
I also read recently that, owing to the shoplifting epidemic - fuelled to some extent by self-service checkouts - shops are having to put their wares behind locked cabinets, therefore needing more staff to open these cabinets.
To me, it is a little bit more than ironic that shoplifters have created jobs for girls who once worked the tills.
They say what goes around comes around, a saying that seems very apt at this turn of events.
Paddy Maxwell
Lordshill
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