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I find it highly unlikely that these new systems will make the TSA line go faster. They tried this with self checkout at grocery stores and that doesn’t seem to
by bhpm 3y ago
I find it highly unlikely that these new systems will make the TSA line go faster. They tried this with self checkout at grocery stores and that doesn’t seem to have been successful.
- alistairSH 3y agoCan't speak to the TSA system, but the self-checkout at the grocer is a piss-poor implementation... Most shops have a scale on the bagging side, but it's far too small a platform for more than 2-3 bags worth of food. Most Americans shop for a week at a time. So, they can't reliably check-out themselves because the system complains if the scale reading doesn't match the expected weight of scanned items. But, at the same time, grocery stores slashed manned check-out lines, forcing people to use the self-checks when they had unsuitably large carts. So you either wait in a long manual line, or you wait in a short (bot slow and error prone) automated line. Lose-lose for consumers.
- goda90 3y agoYou can fit 6+ self checkout stations in the same space as one or two regular checkouts with the need for only one employee to keep an eye on it. While the time to check out a single person is longer on self checkout, the overall throughput is much higher, and therefore the wait time is usually lower. My local Aldi(US version) stores installed self checkout. Before there would be one cashier and they'd call for backup if the line got past 4 or 5 people. People usually filled their carts full, so it was very slow. Now it's a breeze with self checkout.
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