TESCO has tested out technology which would allow it to remove checkouts from stores and banish queueing to the history books.

Dave Lewis, CEO, confirmed that the retail behemoth was looking at the systems which power Amazon Go, a convenience store which has replaced human workers with machines.

1 Could these stores soon be run by computers rather than human staff? Credit: East News Press Agency

“We trial lots and lots of things... but we’ll only talk about it when we’ve done it everywhere," he told a press conference when asked about Amazon Go.

"When we're at a place where we've got something we want to launch to all customers, we'll launch it and we'll communicate it," he added.

"We've been doing it for a while. Nothing to announce."

At this stage, we don't anything more about Tesco's plans and what sort of technology is has tested.

But it is likely to be watching Amazon Go with great interest.

Sensors at Amazon's first Seattle store work out which items customers have picked up, before automatically adding the bill to their Amazon account.

This might seem attractive to anyone who's sick of queuing up at supermarkets, but it is terrifying to the 2.7 million Brits who work in retail.

Last year, Bank of England boss Mark Carney said the technological revolution is set to "mercilessly" kill British jobs.

He said "stateless" corporations would get all the benefits of the billions generated by the robotics revolution, whilst up to 15 million Brits are consigned to the dole queue.