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Volunteers had manned paths over the weekend to stop people entering the danger zone leading to Glen Rosa, Goat Fell and Glen Sannox.

We passed by a checkpoint manned by the National Guard and the LAPD, then had to stop for 20 minutes on a narrow hillside road as a backhoe was unloaded from a flatbed truck.

Nearly every checkout lane once manned by a cashier is now closed, leaving a vast, eerie expanse of empty aisles where humans used to stand.

In August upmarket north of England supermarket chain Booths got rid of self-scan altogether, while Asda and Morrisons said they would put more staff back on manned tills.

It was manned by resident lighthouse keepers until it became automated in 1996.