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The four energy-efficient homes being built by the Invercargill City Council are expected to be finished by the end of March. The work on two...

A photo of a Coles supermarket from the 1990s has sparked a tense debate about a time ‘when customers were important’.

The backlash against self-checkout is growing, and stores are starting to dial back on the technology after it exploded over the past few years.

Despite the rise of self-checkout, some big-box stores that previously embraced it have recently ditched their machines and returned to an all-cashier format. Some of those stores say theft and customer preference were factors.

Marks & Spencer’s chairman Archie Norman this week confirmed that Britain is indeed now a nation of shoplifters, laying much of the blame at the feet of the middle classes.

Thefts from shops have hit a record high in this country – but it’s the affluent among us who might be to blame

New Zealand supermarkets and customers have responded after it was announced a UK grocery giant had decided to axe self-checkouts and replace them with staff...

A supermarket giant is axing the now-common self-checkouts and bringing back fully-staffed checkouts, with the CEO saying “we like to talk to people”....

A supermarket giant is axing the now-common self-checkouts and bringing back fully-staffed checkouts, with the CEO saying “we like to talk to people”.
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The system has been introduced in a number of stores in London following a trial in Holborn in 2021 while other brands such as Amazon and Aldi have made similar moves in recent years.