A woman behind a petition asking Tesco to cut back on the number of self-service tills in its stores has explained why she launched her campaign.
More than 100,000 people have signed the petition on Change.org after Pat McCarthy, 69, opened a can of worms by asking the supermarket giant to restore a fuller range of manned tills. The volunteer, from Brentford, West London, launched the campaign after visiting a store where three-quarters of the tills were self service.
The Mirror reports that at the core of her argument against robot cashiers is a simple concept: “You can’t speak to a machine.” Writing on Change.org, the online platform she used to raise the petition, she said: "These new tills are not accessible for people who don't have credit cards and can only use cash or those with little confidence to use these self-service card-only tills - myself included."
