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Traditional checkout takes two peoples' time: one scanning and the other waiting. Self-checkout only takes one person's time. So it'd have to be twice as fast
by HPsquared 3y ago
Traditional checkout takes two peoples' time: one scanning and the other waiting. Self-checkout only takes one person's time.
So it'd have to be twice as fast to break even in terms of "time spent".
- jen20 3y agoWhat makes you think it wouldn’t be twice as fast, assuming the same number of items was being purchased? That certainly seemed to be the case at my local Whole Foods before Amazon ruined it.
- alpaca128 3y agoIn 99% of cases I don't have time to wait because the cashier is so fast I can barely keep up putting the scanned stuff back in the cart. If I do self checkout I have to do both of those things myself, meaning I am guaranteed to be slower.