"Owain" wrote in message
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On 27 Oct, 13:48, "tim...." wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote in message
What they need is faster humans, such as the ones in Aldi, who are
equipped with tills designed to be fast, rather than pretty.
The problem with faster scanning is that you are still held up by the 50%
of
the population who insisting on bagging everything before even thinking
about getting their purse out of their handbag with which to pay.

They don't let you do that in Aldi. They scan things and drop them
back into your trolley. You pay and then take your trolley of stuff
through the checkout to the self-packing area.

Yes I know, for some reason I though you said ASDA (!).

But what does hold you up in Aldi with this system is, they can't start to
scan things until you have finished putting the things on the belt (and thus
they don't have an empty trolley to put them back into).

More than once I have been held up by someone being particularly slow at
putting things on the belt.

tim