[dre85]

I always use self-checkout and prefer it. Recently though it's gotten really annoying in the Walmart near my house in that there are like 30 checkouts out of which only 4 are working and there's again a line up. Probably again some stupid shoplifting prevention strategy, but it's highly nonsensical.

On a similar note, I'm blown away by the checkout system in Decathlon stores. You literally just throw the item into a checkout bin and it somehow detects what the item is (maybe NFC tags?) And just adds the price on the screen. No weighing or scanning barcodes. Really futuristic!

[andenacitelli]

Uniqlo has a similar system for some stores where you just throw the items in and it automatically senses them. It’s probably more feasible for them because they do much more of the supply chain for their products and basically have an item all the way from manufacture to retail sale, so they probably cut a lot of the middlemen costs.