Self-service tills: a bleeping pain or brilliant? | Letters

The case against self-checkout is made by Alison Leonard and Anthony Blane, but Clifford Challenger says not all older people are desperate for human contact with supermarket staffThank you, Hilary Freeman, for catching and coining the central movement which is sickening us all: “the slow erosion of human contact that heralds the dehumanisation of yet another society” (Hell is not other people – it’s being stuck in the ninth circle of an automated telephone service, 22 Ap