Fulwood Booths to remove self-service checkouts on January 22

Self-service tills in Booths Fulwood Pic: Blog Preston

Booths in Fulwood is preparing to remove the self-service checkout on Monday (22 January).

This comes after the Northern food outlet announced it would be removing self-service checkouts and going back to staffed tills instead.

All Preston stores including Fulwood, Penwortham, Longridge and Longton will be affected.

A sign in the Fulwood store in Sharoe Green near Royal Preston Hospital reads: “From the 22nd of January, these self checkouts will be removed.

“Please use one of our staffed tills. Thank you for your understanding.”

A Booths spokesperson said: “We believe colleagues serving customers delivers a better customer experience and therefore we have taken the decision to remove self-checkouts in the majority of our stores.

“We have based this not only on what we feel is the right thing to do but also having received feedback from our customers. We will retain self-checkouts in two of our stores in the Lake District in order to meet the needs of our customers during very busy periods.

“Since 1847, the Booths founding philosophy is to, ‘Sell the best goods available, in attractive stores, staffed with first class assistants.’

“Delighting customers with our warm Northern welcome is part of our DNA and we continue to invest in our people to ensure we remain true to that ethos.”

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