Re:Humans 1, Robots 0
by jiggy2011 on Sunday October 06, 2013 @08:48PM
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My experience is different, self checkout systems are improving all the time as the technology gets better and the humans adjust to using them.
The advantage is cost, I don't know the price but I imagine you can get a lot of self checkouts for the fully loaded cost of maintaining an around the clock roster for human staffing.
One of my local stores replaced 3 human checkouts with 1 human checkout + 5 self service in roughly the same amount of space. As a result queuing times have been reduced dramatically.
The advantage is cost, I don't know the price but I imagine you can get a lot of self checkouts for the fully loaded cost of maintaining an around the clock roster for human staffing.
One of my local stores replaced 3 human checkouts with 1 human checkout + 5 self service in roughly the same amount of space. As a result queuing times have been reduced dramatically.