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That's exactly what people said about self-checkout lanes.
by asdfologist 12y ago
That's exactly what people said about self-checkout lanes.
- wmeredith 12y agoYou know what's empty every time I go to Home Depot and Costco? Self checkout lanes. The Costco by my house just took out half of them and added more staffed stations.
- harmegido 12y agoI don't think one data point is enough to say that self-checkout lanes are a failure and waste of money.
- MrFoof 12y agoThere are varying implementations. Stop and Shop supermarkets have Symbol guns running Windows CE, and an iOS/Android app. You scan as you shop. When you get to a register you scan the "End Order" barcode on the register, then scan your Stop & Shop card. That's it. Pay. They even recently revved their software to speed up the process and reduce processing delays. I can check out an entire cart in about 40 seconds, and everything is already bagged the way I want it.
- afafsd 12y agoIf they said that self-checkout lanes would fail frequently because they have a lot of moving parts then they must have misunderstood the concept. (Incidentally, I'm really tired of the "That's what people said about such-and-such" counterargument to any attempt to predict the future success or failure of a given technology. "Hey, I don't think there's a big market for home-based chemical vapour deposition systems" "Oh yeah, that's what they said about personal computers, hah!".) Anyway, self-checkout systems are instrinsically less prone to failure since they don't have all those things I mentioned like moving parts and messy substances to foul them up, and a single failure doesn't shut the entire supermarket down.