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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Rachel Pugh

Tesco facing furious shopper boycott as 'nightmare' checkouts are installed in supermarkets

Supermarket giant Tesco has found itself in hot water with shoppers over its self-checkouts.

A 69-year-old woman called Pat McCarthy started a petition to bring back more Tesco cashiers to tills instead of opening up self-checkouts. To date, the petition has been signed more than 106,000 times, and it's also started a heated argument on Twitter.

Pat, who's from Brentford in West London, says she started the petition because three-quarters of the tills in her local store are now self-service, and she's not a happy bunny about it. Writing on her change.org page, she said: "My name is Pat, I am 69 years old, and retired but I am a volunteer helping disabled people with applying for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) forms and a Trustee of my local Disability Network.

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