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The failure of self-checkout technology

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The failure of self-checkout technology

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Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 11 months ago

'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

Unstaffed tills were supposed to revolutionise shopping. Now, both retailers and customers are bagging many self-checkout kiosks.

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No, my favourite store has hand-held scan devices, so I can pack everything the way I want to from start to finish.

Only when I buy a handful of things I use the stationary scanner at the self-checkout.

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