The Latest Breaking News from Booths

Have we fallen out of love with self-scanning? As Asda and Morrisons admit these checkouts might have gone too far, and amid an epidemic of ‘middle-class shoplifting’, Helen Coffey investigates whether the personal touch might be making a comeback

Have your say: Many Independent readers felt there should be a balance between self-checkouts and manned tills - and said Booths’ decision to totally remove the machines was drastic

Machinery is rendering shopping into a soulless, isolating experience, but at last one supermarket is bucking the trend

The supermarket chain Booths says self-scan machines can be more trouble than they're worth.

We want to hear from people in the UK after supermarket chain Booths announced it will remove self-checkouts from most of its stores

The upmarket supermarket is set to replace self-checkout tills in all but two of its stores

Booths said they would remove the machines following customer feedback

Supermarket chain to remove self-checkouts from all but two of its stores, saying ‘we’re not great fans’

The name was chosen as a touching nod to the company's roots