Are you from the UK? I travel a lot for work(200+ days a year) and so I see the best and the worst. In every country I've been, the self checkout is implemente

Are you from the UK? I travel a lot for work(200+ days a year) and so I see the best and the worst. In every country I've been, the self checkout is implemented differently. Only in certain countries, low trust societies, do you have to wait for the scale to calculate the weight of the goods to prevent shop lifting In Switzerland as an example, self checkout is a breeze. There is no such scale at all. Fast, highly efficient with good software. Same in Sweden, though for some reason some grocery stores in Sweden insist on being a member before you can use the self checkout lanes. I think because they were early adopters of the technology and weren't sure they could trust their customers(hint: they could). Another annoying thing is that you have to scan your receipt to exit the store. This you usually don't have to do in Switzerland. I've seen the same type of inefficient system you're accustomed to in the UK at pretty much all the stores over there and in Rimi in Riga. Frankly it works a lot better in Latvia than the UK, though still annoying and disrupts the workflow.