Customers set to check out sci-fi style face-scanning monitors in shops

Face-scanning monitors mounted alongside shop tills and playing adverts specifically tailored to the age and gender of every person standing in the queue?

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s coming to a shop near you.

OptimEyes screens are about to be rolled out in more than 450 Tesco petrol stations across Britain, and the company behind the technology, Alan Sugar’s Amscreen, says it’s in talks with several Irish companies about the screens and the “benefits they can bring to brands in the Republic”.