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'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (6 children)

That system has been a thing for at least a decade in most supermarkets in Sweden, is it not a thing in (I assume) the US?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah the little self scanner thing you can take around the store as you shop is not much of a thing in the US.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My local grocery store does it with their smartphone app. I shop this way almost every time. Bag as I go, then stop at a special self checkout at the end to pay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your grocery store has cell service? I lose all service the second I step inside mine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They have wifi! The cell service is crap though.

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