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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by HPsquared on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:08AM (#39027126)
Traditional checkout takes two peoples' time: one scanning and the other waiting. Self-checkout only takes one person's time.

So it'd have to be twice as fast to break even in terms of "time spent".

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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by jen20 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:33AM (#39027404)
What makes you think it wouldn’t be twice as fast, assuming the same number of items was being purchased? That certainly seemed to be the case at my local Whole Foods before Amazon ruined it.
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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by alpaca128 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:37AM (#39029159)
In 99% of cases I don't have time to wait because the cashier is so fast I can barely keep up putting the scanned stuff back in the cart. If I do self checkout I have to do both of those things myself, meaning I am guaranteed to be slower.
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