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Speaker 1: Outside the stop and shop Employmouth, I'm asking shoppers how

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Speaker 1: they feel about self checkout lanes. To my surprise, I'm

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Speaker 1: hearing a lot of backlash.

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Speaker 2: Unless I have one or two items and the lines

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Speaker 2: all back.

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Speaker 3: I think they should go back to checkouts and give

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Speaker 3: people more jobs.

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Speaker 1: Many complain about a lack of staff being available to

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Speaker 1: help with scanning if something goes wrong, and that's part

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Speaker 1: of the reasoning behind a new bill on Beacon Hill

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Speaker 1: that would demand grocery stores have one worker for every

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Speaker 1: two self checkout lanes and limit self checkouts to eight

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Speaker 1: per store. Nancy from Kingston thinks the traditional checkouts don't

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Speaker 1: cut it anymore.

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Speaker 4: I just think it's an extra step in at slowsy

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Speaker 4: down grocery shopping.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, I was getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: frustrating feedback on self checkouts, and it could be a

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Speaker 1: preview of where this bill is headed at the State House.

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Speaker 1: Employmouth Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio