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Re:In Manufacturing and Retail, Robot Labor is Cheaper Than ... by dazc on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:13AM (#13892836)
In Spain it's common that you have to weigh and label such items as you buy them, so you are just scanning a bar code when it comes to the checkout bit. The only snag is that below a certain price point some stores will intervene to check you really have just bought one croissant, which kind of defeats the whole purpose?
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Re:In Manufacturing and Retail, Robot Labor is Cheaper Than ... by mantas on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:57AM (#13914235)
In Lithuania only 1 small supermarket chain do so. In the rest, this is done at checkout.

I still remember when I encountered this workflow for the first time. I didn't speak local language, cashier didn't speak english and I had no clue why cashier is so banana while ringing up my bananas :(

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