End of the counter culture

IT was a time of huge change.

The shop counter and the list of items to be collected were gone. Instead, in came the checkout till and the idea of serving yourself as you walked around the shop.

And it’s an era that film-maker Laura McGann has captured in the short documentary The End of the Counter. The film will be shown for the first time at next week’s Corona Cork Film Festival and has been a real labour of love for Laura.