text:  A significant number of shoppers here, from both sides of the Irish border, are unhappy about automated checkouts. And it comes as retailers across the world roll out more of them. Christopher Andrews, an associate professor and chair of sociology at Drew University in the American state of New Jersey, has studied consumer attitudes to self-checkouts for 10 years. Significant numbers of shoppers have always been opposed to self-checkouts. When I started studying self-checkouts,