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Press · Andrei Tarnovski

Strategy rethought. Some retailers drop automated tills and return to cashiers. Anticipated savings eroded by theft, scanning errors and supervision costs

Subject

Andrei Tarnovski

Date

23 October 2026

Published by

Profit.ro

What it is

Profit.ro's retail piece reproduces the Adevărul interview: automation has to be evaluated beyond the payroll calculation, because equipment, maintenance and supervision costs — plus the work it relocates to customers and staff — eat into the promised savings.

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