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Josh Bolton & Elaine Blackburne

Angry Tesco shoppers call on store to stop replacing 'real staff' with machines

Hundreds of thousands of Tesco shoppers are calling for a return to face to face service amid complaints the store is replacing staff with machines. More than 218,000 people have added their name to a petition urging the store to rethink its policies.

Disabled rights campaigner Pat McCarthy started the petition saying the experience of shopping in the store in Osterley was both physically and emotionally difficult. And she called on store bosses nationally to bring back more staff-operated tills, reports MyLondon.

Writing in her petition she demanded the company change its operations. And she called on it to commit to a "People & Profit Policy not a Profits before People Policy".

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