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Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One cool thing I've found is that you can scan your card on the reader at any time.

I walk up to the machine, scan my first item, tap my card, then do the rest of my scanning. When I hit "done"/"pay" it just processes the card and prints a receipt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That trick likely only works on specific brands of these self checkout terminals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It isn’t brand, it’s how the company had them configured to work.