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Self-checkouts are gaining popularity
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Self-checkouts have become a more popular option for grocery shoppers during the pandemic.
Only a few years ago, self-checkouts were seen as job killers by many Canadians.
Grocers just didn’t know what to think of self-checkouts. And consumers had a love-hate relationship with them. Some saw them as unwelcome intruders, replacing humans who desperately needed employment. Others quietly used them, either preferring a speedy exit or simply avoiding unnecessary human interaction, making self-checkouts valuable for anti-socialites.
But with the pandemic, self-checkouts are becoming more popular, and grocers have noticed.
Since the start of the pandemic, 25 per cent of Canadians have changed where they typically shop for groceries, according to a recent survey by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, in partnership with Caddle. The survey was conducted in mid-to-late May 2021 and included 10,024 Canadians.
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A ransomware attack that forced the temporary shutdown of the JBS meat-packing plant at Brooks should serve as a wake-up call for the food and agriculture sectors, experts said Tuesday.
The Brooks facility, along with JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the U.S., was idled Sunday after a cyberattack on some of the company’s servers, the Brazilian-owned meat processing giant said in a Monday statement. All shifts for unionized workers at Brooks were cancelled until mid-afternoon Tuesday, when production was able to be restarted, according to the union that represents 2,500 employees at the southern Alberta plant.