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Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the try-not-to-shed-too-many-tears dept.

netbuzz writes "The law of unintended consequences is taking a chomp out of grocery chain profits as more stores transition from human clerks to self-service checkout technology, thus reducing the time shoppers spend in line and under the temptation of impulse items. That's the upshot of research being released tomorrow by IHL Consulting Group in Franklin, Tenn., which provides market analysis to the retail industry and its IT vendors."

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  1. OUTGOING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs by plague3106 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which makes you an asshat. You probably also write checks in the express line too.