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Disclaimer: I am more or less pulling this numbers out of thin air. Assume that having a single cashier costs $15 per hour. Assume that an RFID tag costs $0.05
by kalmi10 10y ago
Disclaimer: I am more or less pulling this numbers out of thin air.
Assume that having a single cashier costs $15 per hour.
Assume that an RFID tag costs $0.05.
Assume that in average a cashier handles 1 item for only 5 seconds (including payment).
That means that a cashier can handle 720 items per hour, and that costs the supermarket $15.
Having RFID tags for 720 items would cost $36.
That's still a ~$20 dollar difference, which still amounts to ~$0.028 per item.
I would be willing to pay that if that means i can forgo the checkout lines.
- lis 10y agoThat sounds about right. Depending on the store, though, the cashier will handle a lot more articles. E.g. at Aldi, a cashier is expected to process at least 3k articles per hour. The big problem is: Most people are not willing to pay for that :) Depending on the product, 1-2 cents might be your whole margin.