you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

In North Italy almost all groceries stores offer

Self checkout: where you do your groceries and at the end you scan the item one by one

Advanced self checkout (you are registered to the store): you get a PDA and you scan and bag all the groceries while you roam the store. Then you scan a qr, you get the total, pay and go. No Id checks for alcol or anything (sometimes you get a random partial re-reading where you get an sales person coming and scanning 3 items at random from your bag to check if you scanned them, or a total re-read)

Normal slow cashier point

Advanced self checkout is something I would never give back. Even if I buy a lot of things, the quick payment process is so quick that nothing compares.

I can enter and leave a store in under 10 minutes buying a lot of stuff (note that I go there walking multiple time per week)

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    We have that system in Sweden as well. In my experience if you add up the total time lost fiddling with the scanner while browsing the store it's usually much more than the time you save during checkout.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • Honestly it scans, beep, next

    It has a screen and you can click a product to remove it (you need to rescan it)

    Other than a time where I could not rescan a product to delete it, it always worked

    Also an important note: you can actual see your total on the PDA, and you can manually check prices one by one

    You don't have idea how many times they put a price and then you scan it and it's different

    (Once I brought home 4x 200g hamburgers for 4 cent )

  • source
  • parent