On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:57:45 +0000, TheOldFellow wrote:

I claim a record. I put 8 items through, every one scanned OK, they all
fitted on the scales, and I paid without any help from the eight of so
staff hovering. I thought they were going to clap as I went out!

I noticed yesterday that the ghastly conveyor belt self op checkouts
in Tesco Carlisle have disappeared. Double the quantity in/scan/bag
it types have replaced them.

I almost beat my mate who queued for the one human-checkout too.

So they are slower than a real checkout. Stores can't be using
"throughput of customers" as the reason for these abonimations, just
that they don't need so many (expensive) operators.

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Cheers
Dave.