Yes, it was a wonderful period when they ditched nigh on all the till operatives, installed the self service checkouts and dropped all their prices due to them slashing overheadsUsing that analogy they should drop Robert de Niro, Samuel L Jackson, Patrick Stewart, Graham Norton, Michael Buble etc etc from their television adverts and slash prices accordingly.
This everything online, automated services, press button 1, then press button 2 on your phone when all you want to do is speak to a competent advisor malarkey is going too far. People want to deal with other people not robots.