The End Of Checkouts! Woohoo! (Amazon Shop)

[Pesty]

REALIST123 said:

Oddly enough Tesco have been doing it for years, albeit with their scanners. Pick up a scanner, put things directly in your bag, self check out in a minute or two.

I guess phone addicts might save a few seconds but it's hardly significant progress is it?

Check out in a minute or two yeah right is that not counting the woman who comes an random checks you are not stealing ?

[Pachydermus]

menousername said:

It is also incredibly depressing and i genuinely think there is a gap in the market for a friendly supermarket adequately staffed with happy attentive people.

we have that, it's called waitrose. Of course most people don't want to pay for the service.

[chow pan toon]

Pachydermus said:

menousername said:

It is also incredibly depressing and i genuinely think there is a gap in the market for a friendly supermarket adequately staffed with happy attentive people.

we have that, it's called waitrose. Of course most people don't want to pay for the service.

My local Waitrose goes even further to save money, they don't even have someone supervising the self-service tills. You end up having to go and find someone on the shop floor to authorise your booze

[menousername]

Pachydermus said:

we have that, it's called waitrose. Of course most people don't want to pay for the service.

There isnt one close enough for me

[Ian Geary]

I'm not a particular fan of self service checkouts. I remember thinking when they first appeared: If I wanted to operate a checkout, I would have paid a lot less attention at school.

But I'm not a complete luddite - the click and collect arrangements do work well when you have small kids in tow ( or so the wife tells me)

Ian

[TheGuru]

This may work fine in a small grocery store in hipster Seattle, but put this in a huge suburban supermarket and I think things may come unstuck rapidly. How does it work for families - 3-4 people grabbing stuff/putting stuff back, or the busy days when there may be 500+ people in there. And what will their pilferage rates be like in low socio-economic areas?

We are also seemingly having our society relentlessly being driven remove humans from jobs by corporations and their cost savings. I don't know where that will end up but I'm not sure it's that beneficial overall.

[BoRED S2upid]

sanguinary said:

It's a badly worded article. The app will get you into the store. The store will then track what you've picked up from the shelves and placed in your bag - no scanning required. Then, when you leave, you will be automatically billed for the produce.

Will it be able to track what the kids have secretly snuck into the trolley as well?

[MarshPhantom]

I hate shopping, just ruins your weekend. We been doing home delivery for years, I'm surprised more don't do it.

[Puggit]

Sainsburys trialled a phone based app system in their Tadley store. Being a techie I happily signed up, but it was too much of a faff. The Waitrose laser gun readers are far easier.

[Gunk]

MarshPhantom said:

I hate shopping, just ruins your weekend. We been doing home delivery for years, I'm surprised more don't do it.

Pop an extra bottle of whisky in next time you deliver to ours!

[Yipper]

Supermarket staff are going the way of taxi, van and truck drivers in the next 10-30 years. It is not an industry to work in if you are under 30 and want longterm prospects.

[anonymous-user]

Pesty said:

REALIST123 said:

Oddly enough Tesco have been doing it for years, albeit with their scanners. Pick up a scanner, put things directly in your bag, self check out in a minute or two.

I guess phone addicts might save a few seconds but it's hardly significant progress is it?

Check out in a minute or two yeah right is that not counting the woman who comes an random checks you are not stealing ?

Hardly ever happens, and gets more and more infrequent the more you use the system and go through the odd check. Which is of 5 random items so takes just a few seconds in any case.

[Moonhawk]

Yipper said:

Supermarket staff are going the way of taxi, van and truck drivers in the next 10-30 years. It is not an industry to work in if you are under 30 and want longterm prospects.

They'll probably need shelf stackers for a good while yet.

[K12beano]

Moonhawk said:

They'll probably need shelf stackers for a good while yet.

Really? Not heard of "Robots"???

[truck71]

Love self service checkouts, incompetents have now abandoned them leaving them free to get in and out quickly without having to engage in meaningless conversation. Never have a problem and actively seek them out.

Supermarket with biggest queue in my corner of West London? Waitrose. Supermarket with the most staff? Waitrose. Quality is not even that great when compared to the indie specialists making it pointless for me.