Meanwhile, in fish, the stark reality is British shoppers are far less adventurous compared with those on the Continent, suggests Roberts. “A big store in Spain or Portugal will be making up to 12% of their revenue through the fish counter, whereas in the UK, that would be much closer to 0%,” he says. “Our diets and cooking habits mean fish counters are never going to do a tonne of business in many locations, and that’s why we see so much wastage from those counters.” The results of automatic fish counters can be supplemented, confirmed, or replaced by a number of alternative techniques, varying in accuracy, cost, complexity, and skew effects. Along with Tesco, that has prompted most of the major supermarkets to scrap deli counters in the past few years. Sainsbury’s announced it would not reopen its fresh food counters during the pandemic, while Asda said earlier this year that it would close most while replacing some with ready meals counters and food court-style areas.

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He said: “I would view it negatively, because it is withdrawing from an area of business – service – where British supermarkets could offer true differentiation. We have opened a collective consultation with those colleagues impacted and their representatives and will have conversations about any potential change with our colleagues first." Most Read The camera is installed in a special tunnel that contains both the camera and lights providing constant light, and same distance from the camera for the fish. That way, it is possible to get good images of the fish regardless of time of day.

Meanwhile, Greggs is also eyeing up an expansion of concessions across the big four in a move that could further transform the counter channel, after launching a trial in Asda last month. Asda’s plan will see it roll out at least 35 of its new formats by the end of the first quarter and 150 by the end of 2020, in a bid to “better align with our customers’ lifestyle”, suggested the senior manager of its food for now operation Elizabeth Ruddiman. Even Waitrose has cut opening hours on some of its counters. One important species studied by fish counters are Atlantic salmon. This species is of interest owing to its ecologically vulnerable status and anadromous lifestyles. Fish of all species are counted stress free and remain in water at all times. The Bioscanner is highly accurate and can be utilized with fish from 3g to 6kg. Accurate information on the number and size of farmed fish is very important in modern aquaculture. Biomass data on the fish in tanks and pens makes it possible to monitor production and facilitates management and planning. The Bioscanner has been counting fish worldwide since first introduced in 1984 and is the standard in the automated counting of live fish. How it works

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Tarry again referred to “changing customer demands” last month, as he announced Tesco would also restructure its in-house bakeries - with a further 1,800 jobs at risk - through a plan to scrap scratch baking altogether in 58 stores and to move to the part-baking of some products in another 201 stores. It takes investment and staff to make these channels a success. But from a business point of view there’s just not the business case” But Tesco announced more than 300 would close earlier this year due to changing customer habits - and the remaining ones are now said to be threatened as well.

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Infrared light is used for minimizing the disturbance of the fish as they will not see the light when passing through the counter. When a fish swims through the net of light beams, the resulting silhouette image is used for counting as well as estimating the size of each fish. Each individual image is memorized in the control unit so that the counting can be verified afterwards. The key disadvantage of optical counters is the small penetration of the beams through the water, restricting their use to narrow river features or in-river structures, an example being fish ladders.