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Tesco Keeps Some Traditional Cashiers in New Amazon-Style Stores

  • Hybrid approach gives shoppers option of using a checkout
  • Three ‘GetGo’ stores opening in London and Birmingham

A Tesco GetGo store in London.

Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
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Tesco Plc is expanding its experiment with stores where customers can walk straight out with their shopping instead of visiting a checkout counter. The only catch is, this time there will be traditional cashiers on offer as well.

Three new GetGo stores in London and Birmingham will follow a “hybrid format” designed to avoid alienating customers who have been put off by cashierless technology.