"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 19:15:21 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
mm0fmf wrote:
On 13/11/2019 15:13, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Although not sure where they get the
stuff from
Don't you ever visit supermarkets?


There are always teams of pickers roaming my local supermarket with
hand-held terminals and a trolley with 6-8 baskets on it. Lots of
consult hand-held (tells them row, shelf, item), scan it, scan barcode
on basket on trolley, place it in basket. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Not at my local one.

I've never seen them in any of the supermarkets I go to.
It would be rather inefficient for them to do it like that on any real
scale.

But it might be less efficient to do it out the back or in the
main distribution center where the stuff is still in the boxes
of lots of the boxes of the stuff the customer wants one of.