<p>You know those automated checkout machines in Tesco and Sainsbury's the ones that nag you in a robotic voice to "please place item in the bagging area"? If you hate those machines, you're going to hate shopping in the future even more than you do now, because stores are getting automated.</p><p>That doesn't mean retail staff across the nation need worry for their jobs we'll always need someone to scowl at us when we come in the door but technology is increasingly being used to help us spend more, from intelligent vending machines and robotic shelf stackers, to massive touchscreen promotional tools and smell-based marketing.</p><p>Retailers hope such technologies will help draw shopping back from the web to the high street, as does Intel all of these systems run of a Core chip of some sort and make use of the company's remote management and analytics software. It showed off the latest innovations in retail tech and what's to come next at The Future of Retail show at Central Saint Martin's College in London.</p><p>Robot shelf-stackers</p><p><a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/07/02/forget-the-saturday-boy-here-comes-the-robot-shelf-stacker/">Keep reading...</a></p>