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I’m always confused by these comments. Maybe the quality of scanners differs wildly between chains? The places I go regularly seem to have units that work fine
by MBCook 2y ago
I’m always confused by these comments. Maybe the quality of scanners differs wildly between chains?
The places I go regularly seem to have units that work fine for me. It’s very very rare I get a warning about bagging stuff. And I can scan at a pretty good speed.
Not practiced checkout clerk high speed, but plenty fast to the point the limit is often me finding the barcode.
- 3eb7988a1663 2y agoMaybe I have a low tolerance for delays. I know technology can do better. The lag is an explicit choice or technical incompetence. Maybe even the POS are running Electron these days.
- MBCook 2y agoI think I have a pretty low tolerance as well. I can say I find the CVS machines slow the few times I’ve used them. Possibly Home Depot too but I have little experience. But at Target, Whole Foods, and two local grocery chains it just hasn’t been an issue. The UI is slow if you need to enter a code for a vegetable or when you hit pay, but for scanning it works fine if I ignore the slow prompts and just go at a comfortable speed.
- Washuu 2y agoThe technology can absolutely be better. When I worked retail over two decades ago those scanners were fast and I can scan back to back with no noticeable delay.