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Those damn things give me problems in totally usual situations, let alone unusual ones.

• w0m 9y ago
  Like what? Only issue i've seen is they're a bit tentative/slow on 5 way intersections and they (stubbornly) don't speed.
  • ams6110 9y ago
    > they (stubbornly) don't speed Thus causing road rage among drivers unfortunate enough to be following one. I get the same feeling when I'm stuck behind a bicyclist.
• bsder 9y ago
  Most of those kinds of bagging systems have gotten much better about the whole "detection of bagging." However, most of the time, the issue with self-checkout is the HUMAN, not the machine. Several extremely busy grocery stores near me ripped out self-checkout systems because it affected throughput too much. They went back to cashiers because the cashiers are A) faster and B) capable of judging situations for throughput ("Um, grandma, really, we don't need you to take 5 minutes to find two pennies for that $20.02 grocery bill. Have a nice day. NEXT!") Amazon, unusually, has this one right. A self-checkout system CANNOT rely on the customer doing anything right.
  • ghaff 9y ago
    Having a few self-checkout stations in a grocery store is generally OK if they're effectively for people who have dashed into the store to pick up one of two barcoded items. They're horrible when the store has used them to replace most of their cashiers because they're slow to use for a lot of items, are very slow to use for produce, etc. I still find detection of bagging is often a pain with self-checkout. I expect things are set up to err on the side of falsely detecting potentially unpaid items. Perhaps, at some point, vision systems will make it easier to not require cashiers but it doesn't work all that well today for large supermarkets.
• ptmcc 9y ago
  If you are buying more than a small handful of things, they continually beep and complain about the bagging area as things shift around or have to get moved to make room. And even worse if you are using your own bags.