I have seen only one implementation of this that I like so far, in Decathlon. You dump your shopping basket in the machine’s basket, you don’t even have to know what is in there and the machine automatically picks everything up by their nfc tags. It has never failed for me and you don’t need to search for any tags or barcodes. You pay, you can pick up all yours stuff and dump it in your bag and you are ready to go.
The polar opposite experience is the one you describe and for those shops I avoid the machines if I can.
The first time I used decathlon’s self service I was so confused, I was like, where barcode? And I was about to go look for another one. And the staff member said, no it’s fine, just leave it in there and it will scan.
And then I had to carry 10% of my body weight in training weights home on the buses when I realised my backpack wouldn’t support them. 😅 fun times.
I have seen only one implementation of this that I like so far, in Decathlon. You dump your shopping basket in the machine’s basket, you don’t even have to know what is in there and the machine automatically picks everything up by their nfc tags. It has never failed for me and you don’t need to search for any tags or barcodes. You pay, you can pick up all yours stuff and dump it in your bag and you are ready to go.
The polar opposite experience is the one you describe and for those shops I avoid the machines if I can.
Uniqlo also does this, it’s a pretty good experience.
The first time I used decathlon’s self service I was so confused, I was like, where barcode? And I was about to go look for another one. And the staff member said, no it’s fine, just leave it in there and it will scan.
And then I had to carry 10% of my body weight in training weights home on the buses when I realised my backpack wouldn’t support them. 😅 fun times.