{"id":69157,"date":"2023-11-28T02:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T02:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/?p=69157"},"modified":"2023-11-28T02:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T02:36:05","slug":"ill-never-shop-at-asda-again-over-huge-change-to-self-checkouts-before-christmas-customers-hate-it-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/lifestyle\/ill-never-shop-at-asda-again-over-huge-change-to-self-checkouts-before-christmas-customers-hate-it-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I'll 'never shop at Asda again' over HUGE change to self-checkouts before Christmas – customers hate it | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
LIVID supermarket shoppers customers have vowed never to return to Asda over a feared increased the number of self-checkout.<\/p>\n
One said removing manned tills and increasing self-service checkouts at Asda will be a disaster in the run up to Christmas – one of the busiest times of the year.<\/p>\n
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They added how a self-serve future is not what people at a branch in Cheltenham, Glos, want.<\/p>\n
They fumed on X: "I will no longer be going to your store and spending my money there because you have extended the self-checkout tills and removed nearly all the manned tills, right in the run up to one of the busiest times of the year.<\/p>\n
"This is not the future consumers want and I hope it hits your pockets hard."<\/p>\n
Other Asda stores are getting a pasting from shoppers, too.<\/p>\n
One shopper in Cambridgeshire said they were so hacked off with the self-checkout expansion they abandoned their groceries in protest.<\/p>\n They wrote on Facebook: "Went to our local Asda (Wisbech) this morning for a few bits, I have complemented them before but….there were no manned checkouts open. <\/p>\n "The lady in front of me said I can't use the self-checkouts and I said I won't.<\/p>\n "I went to the staff person in charge of the self checkouts and asked for a manned checkout to be opened, explaining the situation and she refused citing no staff available.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n "I said you better get someone to put all the fresh and frozen shopping in my trolley back on the shelves and left."<\/p>\n It is not clear if Asda has increased the number of self-checkout tills, or if manned tills just weren't open on the days the shoppers visited.<\/p>\n Asda aren't the only store getting wrapped for cutting cashiers.<\/p>\n One customer in Peterborough Waitrose blasted the posh nosh shop for causing queues after tearing out face-to-face tills.<\/p>\n Two images posted online showed an empty self-checkout area and a long line of shoppers queuing for a manned till.<\/p>\n They wrote: "People clearly don't like to be pushed into using self check-outs. Lord knows what Christmas will be like."<\/p>\n A growing rebellion has grown against the alleged takeover of supermarket self-checkouts in recent years.<\/p>\n One Facebook group called 'Keep Chashiers' has nearly 18,000 members who blame unmanned tills for causing queues, never being open and encouraging shoplifting.<\/p>\n Asda and Waitrose have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<\/picture>PIE TRY <\/span><\/p>\n
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