Self service at the grocery stores makes us less impulsive

NetworkWorld is filing this interesting story under 'the law of unintended consequences.'
According to research being released tomorrow by IHL Consulting Group in Franklin, Tenn., which provides market analysis to the retail industry and its IT vendors... consumers report buying junk food, supermarket tabloids and the like 45% less frequently while scanning their own purchases than when checking out the old-fashioned way.

Writes reporter Paul McNamara, The scandal rags may have to use bigger headline type or adjust their ratios of celebrity to alien-abduction news (that's not in the report; just my free advice).