> I have never witnessed a singular tech failure either. The newer gen hardware is much better than the old stuff and is now pretty reliable. Some of the older

> I have never witnessed a singular tech failure either. The newer gen hardware is much better than the old stuff and is now pretty reliable. Some of the older machines were painfully unreliable. My closest big Sainsburys only just upgraded from the original generation stuff and they perpetually had a quarter of their self checkouts broken for various reasons. I once saw them have a technician out to service all the machines one day, and the very next day 2 of them were already broken.