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Security barriers in a British Sainsbury's shop require customers to scan receipts before being allowed to leave the premises. Failure to scan all items is a form of shoplifting . This can happen innocently when a customer scans only one item of a "buy one, get one free" promotion, or deliberately by a customer at a self-checkout.
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, [a] is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom.. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century.
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Sainsbury's Local shop was also ground-breaking in terms of staff training. In most Sainsbury's shops, colleagues were trained for specific departments (e.g. checkouts, café, fresh foods, GM). The small size of Sainsbury's Local shops meant that staff needed a high level of product knowledge across all departments.
The recent self-checkout issues have led some to speculate that companies are adjusting access to their self-serve stations in response to customers forgetting to scan or pay for their items, as ...
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Sainsburys opened their first self-service branch in Croydon in 1950. [8] By 1951, the Co-op had 604 self-service stores. [ 7 ] In the same year, Express Dairies opened Britain's first supermarket under the Premier Supermarket brand in Streatham , South London , [ 9 ] while the first Fine Fare was opened as a single supermarket later that year ...