The article does not seems to work for me. I only get "undefined" as contewnt. Looking at the network-debugger in Firefox the call to load article seems to be blocked due to CORS. (it tries to do a call on port 1234 for some reason)
With the current trend in EU I think it could happen that they regulate web-advertisement if it becomes too much of an issue. But there's loads of money in the market - so I would expect loads of lobbyism.
Interesting. Here in Norway I have nothing but good experience with self-checkout. It just works. Only thing is if I buy alcohol I have to wait for someone to click that I am over 18. It even has less queue, and queues are the worst!
It's not common with refills for those bottles? (more often than not the refills are also in some kind of plastic - so not sure how much plastic it saves though)