Supermarkets are ditching self-checkouts in a sign that we can push back against the technofuturist tide | Van Badham

The kiosks have saved corporate chains money on retail wages – but come at a price for our shared sense of communityBritish supermarket chain Booths is scrapping its self-service machines and replacing them with living, breathing, talking, thinking human cashiers. Hooray! In a world that seems to leap, minute by minute, from one dystopian scenario to another, this is happy news.Even better is that it’s not just Britain that’s trading in the automated misery chant of “unex