Booths said it feels customers get a better experience at manned checkouts and have released a list of stores which will see its self-service checkouts cut.
Booths - which has 27 stores in the North across Lancashire, Cumbria, Yorkshire and Cheshire - has decided that rather than artificial intelligence , we re going for actual intelligence .
Booths, which has been dubbed the northern Waitrose , said it chose to scrap the machines because it feels customers get a better experience at manned checkouts.
The decision by Booths, dubbed the northern Waitrose , has provoked much debate on the benefits of self-checkouts as retailers continue to battle a shoplifting epidemic.
Shoppers visiting Booths today were delighted about the supermarket axing almost all of its self-service tills. Booths said it chose to scrap the machines to give customers get a better experience.