FMurtz wrote:

They were the first to have barcodes and scanners that worked, Their
barcodes were bigger and longer, things just flew through with no
mistakes while other retailers were having to manually enter numbers all
the time, now the other retailers have caught up,probably the suppliers
gave others the same size barcodes.

I notice the latest generation of self-scan tills being re-fitted into
most supermarkets now are much better at scanning at wonky angles and at
decent speed of swiping, also they aren't powered by a lame hamster,
they still have XP though when you see them getting rebooted.