Love Them Or Hate Them, Grocery Self-Scanners Are The Future
from the the-choice-of-a-new-generation dept
This weekend, I was mentioning to a friend that I used a "self-scanner" to check myself out for the first time last week (at Home Depot). The process was pretty simple, and I could see how people would like it. My friend wondered how they prevent theft, and I just assumed they had some method for doing so. Like magic, here's an article talking about how successful these scanners have been and how many more stores are investing in them. Some people hate them - saying they break down too often, are confusing, or don't have any sort of "personal touch". Others, though, like that the self-checkout usually gets them out faster (though, that might just be a perception issue - since the customer is more involved in the checkout process). As for the "theft" issue, apparently many of the systems track the weight of items you're carrying against what you actually checkout. Of course, if you never put an item down on the conveyor belt, then I don't see how such a system prevents any theft.
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Customers are going to fall into some ratio of honest-to-dishonest based on the nature of the business and the target demographics, and merchants who don't build in appropriately-tailored securtity steps are not going to realize the expected benefits.
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If that's the attitude you know it must be happening.
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Compliment
ANGELA MARIE TAFT
89 SAINT PETERS DRIVE
BRENTWOOD,NEW YORK 11717-1025
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Never do this or else?
Be ready world for antique cash registers to come back and ring the sales again KA CHING KA CHING!
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