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UK Grocery Chain Booths Discontinues Self-Checkout   The UK supermarket chain Booths has announced it will remove self-checkout stations from most of its stores in response to customer feedback. The decision comes as other UK grocery chains continue to implement self-checkout.   Nigel Murray, Managing Director at Booths, said customers told the store self-checkout machines could be slow, unreliable, and impersonal. "We like to talk to people and we're really proud that we're moving largely to a place....