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Stop and Shop (in New England) had hand scanners you could do this with 15 years ago. I have been shocked that the technology didn't spread. It was so easy to s
by jeffwask 3y ago
Stop and Shop (in New England) had hand scanners you could do this with 15 years ago. I have been shocked that the technology didn't spread. It was so easy to scan and bag then just plug the scanner in at checkout and pay.
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoStop and Shop now has self-checkout where you have to scan and move your items one at a time into your bag, because it's doing continuous weight-based reconciliation. So if you have six of the same yoghurt, you have to scan them and then place them in your bag one at a time. And if you have a 24 pack of sodas, you need to haul it out of your cart onto the scales as you're checking out. And if anything goes wrong (item didn't weight what the system expected; you moved the item too fast onto the scales etc) then you get a "please wait while someone helps you", which involves an employee having to come and clear the error.
- Workaccount2 3y agoThere should be a hand scanner and a "skip bagging" option that allows you to keep heavy things on your cart. I'm pretty sure I have seen it at stop and shop before too.
- Noumenon72 3y agoScanning each yogurt individually is usually required for cashiers too because otherwise people scan similar items under the same barcode.
- 4ndrewl 3y agoMost of the large chain supermarkets in the UK have this, but my anecdata is that it's relatively less used that self checkoit by a ratio of 3:1