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Third of businesses would only report crime for insurance reasons

Will take stress out of something many business owners see as complicated and difficult

Booths said it feels customers get a better experience at manned checkouts and have released a list of stores which will see its self-service checkouts cut.

Booths - which has 27 stores in the North across Lancashire, Cumbria, Yorkshire and Cheshire - has decided that rather than artificial intelligence , were going for actual intelligence.

Booths, which has been dubbed the northern Waitrose, said it chose to scrap the machines because it feels customers get a better experience at manned checkouts.

The decision by Booths, dubbed the northern Waitrose , has provoked much debate on the benefits of self-checkouts as retailers continue to battle a shoplifting epidemic.

Shoppers visiting Booths today were delighted about the supermarket axing almost all of its self-service tills. Booths said it chose to scrap the machines to give customers get a better experience.

Charlene Downes, 14, disappeared in Blackpool in 2003, with police believing she was murdered.

Detectives fear Charlene, 14, was murdered but her body has never been found - and despite several arrests and two trials, no-one has been convicted of her killing