Tesco, other supermarkets increase self-checkouts

London Tesco is spearheading the biggest deployment of self-service checkouts in Europe, with almost half its 2,115 U.K. stores featuring the tills, according to a report in the Financial Times.

But Tesco is not alone. Supermarkets are aiming to double self-checkout tills within three years, spurred by improvements in technology and recession-induced cost cuts.

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